Several progressive Democrats said they will boycott a speech from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he accepts an expected invitation to address a joint session of Congress, citing their objections to his actions in the Israel-Hamas war.
“I’m not going, [because] there is nothing Netanyahu can tell me that can help my district at all,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., told Axios, adding that his constituents are angry at Israel’s war effort.
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., also said he won’t attend, calling the Israeli prime minister a “bad person.” Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., called Netanyahu’s coalition the “most extreme government in the country’s history.”
Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, said it’s “important symbolically” to show up for the speech to express disagreement with Netanyahu, but he also said he is “unlikely to change up my schedule” to attend.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian-American in Congress, said that not only should Netanyahu stay away from Congress, “he should be sent to the Hague,” where war criminals are prosecuted.
“He has no business coming to the United States of America,” Tlaib said.
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