"The first bill I'm going to bring to this floor in a little while will be in support of our dear friend Israel and we are overdue in getting that done," Johnson said as he accepted the speakership.
The House backed the resolution by 412 to 10, with six members voting "present," reflecting traditional strong support in Congress for the Jewish state. The non-binding measure reaffirms U.S. commitment to Israel and calls on Hamas to immediately cease attacks and release every hostage.
Nine of the no votes were from Democrats, some of whom said they opposed the resolution since it did not address the loss of Palestinian lives, and one from a Republican. All six of the "present" votes came from Democrats.
We were told by the language police that any and all criticism of Democrat mega-donor George Soros, a Jewish-born Holocaust survivor and champion of left-wing causes, is inherently "anti-Semitic" and fuels the conspiratorial trope that Jews control society.
What is anti-Semitic, though: the 21st-century robber baron's so-called philanthropy is financing (to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars) anti-Israel activism aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish state—and with it, the expungement of its people.
Wednesday's storming of a congressional building
situated on the U.S. Capitol complex, where a mob of allegedly violent
Hamas sympathizers infiltrated the Cannon House Office Building rotunda,
resulting in multiple arrests for assaulting police officers, was organized by two Soros-backed, nominally "Jewish" non-profits: the radical Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and far-left agitator IfNotNow. Read more, see Xs and videos here.
