Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Palestine
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Sponsor: Tlaib, Rashida (D-Michigan)
This resolution formally recognizes the Nakba—the displacement of Palestinians during 1947–1949 and ongoing Israeli actions—and calls for U.S. policy to commemorate it, support Palestinian refugee rights under UN Resolution 194, resume funding to the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, and acknowledge U.S. complicity in these events through military aid.
Non-binding resolutions signal chamber sentiment but carry no legal force. This marks the first House recognition of the Nakba as an ongoing process and names U.S. military support as enabling Israeli actions, positioning a potential future legislative effort to condition or restrict that aid.