A report by Jewish Insider stated that a group of Republican
senators is accusing
US President Joe Biden of engaging in "an antisemitic
boycott of Israel."
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Their accusation stems from Biden's decision to end
US support for science and technology collaboration with Israeli institutions in
the occupied territories.
The senators, numbering 14, plan to send a letter to Biden
and
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, which warns of potential blockage of
confirmations unless the administration changes its policy, the New Arab
reported.
According to the reported content of the letter, the
senators emphasize that any effort to discriminate between territories Israel
controlled before and after June 1967 would risk severing their ability to
engage with the
Department of State on these matters.
They argued that it is untenable for State Department
officials to publicly express support for the US-Israel relationship while
secretly promoting policies that undermine it.
Without reversing these trends, they claim that Congressional
oversight and the timely vetting of nominees would become extremely difficult.
It is noted that Biden's policy represents a reversal of the
previous administration led by
former President Donald Trump, which permitted
US taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research in the occupied West Bank.
However, the letter seems to suggest that Biden's policy is
entirely new, despite it being a return to a pre-Trump policy.
The letter also highlights that Biden's move "does
something America has never done before: unilaterally imposing territorial
restrictions on US scientific research aid to Israel."
The letter is spearheaded by Republican Senator Ted Cruz of
Texas and is endorsed by 13 other senators from the same party. While the
Democrats hold a narrow majority in the Senate, an individual Republican has
the ability to block a nominee at the committee level.
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