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BIGGEST LOSER OF 2026 MIDTERMS: The U.S.-Israel Allianc

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Dear Kathryn, This week, American voters made it clear: we want OUT of the toxic relationship with the genocidal Israeli state. With historic wins of pro-Palestine candidates across the country, the elections were not just a rebuke of the fascist policies of the Trump administration and his cronies, but an overwhelming rejection of the U.S.-Israel alliance. Israel has become a liability not even Trump can ignore.  While Americans were heading to the polls on Tuesday morning, Trump announced in a rambling speech on “Fox and Friends” that the U.S. would stop funding Israel by the end of the year. We know better than to take his words at face value. But his decision to make this announcement on Election Day is politically significant. Too little too late, Trump recognized that promising to cut military support to Israel can appeal to voters. That’s not a coincidence. It reflects the political ground the Palestine and anti-war movement has helped shift. The demand to end U.S. military support for Israel is no longer something politicians can simply dismiss or push to the margins. Now, we must leverage these wins to prevent politicians from substituting a promise about cutting direct military aid for an actual end to the U.S.-Israel military relationship. Help us keep up the momentum to FULLY cut ties with Israel by telling your representatives in Congress to stop the Deadly Merger proposal in the Pentagon spending bill. Stop the Deadly Merger For years, our movement has demanded an end to U.S. funding for Israel’s violence against Palestinians. We have marched, organized, disrupted, and refused to let our government carry out a genocide in our names without a fight.  Recent polling from IMEU Policy Project, conducted by YouGov, tells that story. Fifty-nine percent of likely voters in Iowa, 57% in Maine, and 54% in Ohio support cutting $3.3 billion in taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel.1 Majorities in all six states surveyed support blocking bomb transfers. There is a growing constituency for ending U.S. complicity, and our organizing has helped build it. But this is also a moment to stay clear about what we are fighting. As direct military aid becomes harder to defend, the U.S. and Israel are laying the groundwork for an even deeper relationship through joint weapons production, military technology, and surveillance. This is the Deadly Merger: binding the U.S. and Israeli military industries together so that support for Israel becomes embedded in contracts, corporate profits, and weapons supply chains.  Provisions in the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now under negotiation in Congress would deepen those ties and make the Deadly Merger law. Help stop the Deadly Merger from becoming law by calling your representatives in Congress now. Take 5 minutes to call your reps That has consequences for our communities here, too. Deeper military and surveillance partnerships strengthen an industry whose profits depend on expanding the tools of war and control. We should be fighting to keep those tools out of our neighborhoods, away from our protests, and out of the hands of agencies that target immigrants and criminalize our communities. Binding these industries together makes that fight harder. Cutting an aid package does not mean those resources will come back to our communities. As long as public money continues flowing into weapons contracts and joint military projects, people will keep struggling to afford rent, find healthcare, and keep schools open.  Our demand to end the U.S.-Israel alliance goes beyond ending direct military funding to reach the contracts and partnerships that sustain this relationship, wherever they appear in the budget. Trump’s announcement should sharpen our attention to that transition. Ending one stream of funding means little if Washington opens new channels to sustain the U.S. -Israeli war machine. Our communities deserve housing, healthcare, and futures free from war and surveillance. Call your representative now. Tell them to sign Representative Ro Khanna’s letter demanding that Congress strip Section 219 and its Senate counterpart, Section 1217, from the final NDAA. We have made support for Israel politically costly. Let’s turn that pressure into a concrete defeat for the Deadly Merger. Call your reps now In solidarity,   Izzy M. Adalah Justice Project   P.S. Join our phonebank next Wednesday Nov. 11th, at 7pm ET to call constituents in key districts and help them connect directly with their lawmakers. 1. https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/polls/2026-swing-states

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