Washington – House Bill Would Withhold Military Aid To Israel Over Detention Of Palestinian Children

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    Betty McCollum at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2014. (Larry French)Washington – Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would withhold funding from Israel over its detention of Palestinian children.

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    The bill is to “promote human rights for Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation and require that United States funds do not support military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children, and for other purposes.”

    It also establishes the Human Rights Monitoring and Palestinian Child Victims of Israeli Military Detention Fund, authorizing $19 million annually for nongovernmental organizations to monitor human rights abuses associated with Israel’s military detention of children.

    “Israel’s system of military juvenile detention is state-sponsored child abuse designed to intimidate and terrorize Palestinian children and their families,” McCollum said in a statement. “It must be condemned, but it is equally outrageous that U.S. tax dollars in the form of military aid to Israel are permitted to sustain what is clearly a gross human rights violation against children.”

    More than 10,000 Palestinian children have been arrested, detained, abused and prosecuted by Israeli security forces in the Israeli military court system since 2000, McCollum’s statement said, citing monitoring groups such as Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem.

    McCollum had introduced the bill in November 2017 with at least nine co-sponsors. It never came to a vote, in committee or on the House floor.

    She has previously called for the withholding of military aid to Israel over its detention of minors, citing the so-called Leahy Law, which bars the State and Defense departments from providing military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., last month praised McCollum for her efforts during an interview when she said that cutting military and economic aid to Israel “is certainly on the table.”


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    Phineas
    Phineas
    4 years ago

    The U.S. also imprisons kids.

    elyeh
    Noble Member
    elyeh
    4 years ago

    Democrats – the party of hate Israel, hate Yidden. This Democrat’s bill is in support of “children” who do terrorism, throwing rocks, molotov bombs and even attacking in the streets with knives and worse. But this Democrat, and her alllies, do not want Israel to defend people, does not want Israel to jail them and so forth. Hizaher, this is who will support those who come to kill.

    stamnamefortrump
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    stamnamefortrump
    4 years ago

    Democrats are the new Naz is

    AmYisroel
    AmYisroel
    4 years ago

    Typical terrorist supporting democrats whom are beloved by hashomer and his TDD afflicted friends.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    4 years ago

    Some of these ‘children’ carry bombs. Does she know that? Move one of them next door to her, See how she likes it!!!

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    4 years ago

    The Alt Left Nazis now run the Democratic Party

    4 years ago

    Her bill will die in committee; incidentally, one doesn’t see a similar bill introduced against Saudi Arabia, for worse activities.

    farrockgrandma
    farrockgrandma
    4 years ago

    And of course, the adults who train their children to be assassins will be prosecuted for child abuse.

    Liepa
    Liepa
    4 years ago

    Let her first go and visit Israel and see first hand what’s going on or what’s not going on before she introduces legislation based on ‘fake news’, this ugly potzatzte !!!

    4 years ago

    Israel only imprisons “kids” who are terrorists.