Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Palestine
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Sponsor: Tlaib, Rashida (D-Michigan)
This resolution commemorates the Palestinian Nakba (dispossession and exile of Palestinians during and after 1948) and calls on the U.S. to recognize Palestinian refugees' right of return under UN Resolution 194, support UN relief services for Palestinian refugees, and end U.S. military and diplomatic support for Israeli actions the resolution characterizes as ethnic cleansing and genocide.
This is a non-binding expression of House sentiment that directly challenges decades of U.S. policy neutrality by explicitly linking American military aid to alleged Israeli war crimes and calling for its suspension. Passage would signal a significant shift in congressional framing of the conflict and could foreshadow future restrictions on aid or conditions on weapons transfers.