November 18, 2024

VIDEO: Casten Calls for Sanctions on High-Ranking Members of Netanyahu Government Responsible for the Increase in Settler Violence in the West Bank

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Sean Casten (IL-06) spoke from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to press the Biden Administration to hold members of the Netanyahu Government – specifically Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir – accountable for the rise in settler violence, settlement expansion, and destabilizing activity in the West Bank.

You can watch Rep. Casten’s speech here.

Last week, Rep. Casten, along with Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) led over 80 Congressional Democrats in a letter to President Biden urging him to sanction Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. You can find a copy of the letter here.

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