We write to you as concerned Jewish constituents to call on you to rescind your endorsement of anti-Israel Congresswoman Summer Lee.
We disagreed with your support for her election before Hamas’s brutal attack against Israel.
- When Israel was under a barrage of Hamas rocket fire in May 2021, Lee condemned other candidates who "use the refrain 'Israel has the right to defend itself.'"
- Lee was one of just 18 out of 435 House members to oppose a resolution calling for the expansion of the Abraham Accords.
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And when the House voted on a resolution rejecting the slander that Israel is an racist or apartheid state, Lee was one of just nine members to vote no.
Lee’s record has only gotten worse since the October 7 Hamas attacks.
- Lee was one of only ten Congresspeople in the House of Representatives who opposed a "Stand with Israel" resolution.
- When Israel's armed forces responded to Hamas's violence militarily - as any nation attacked in that fashion would have - Lee disgustingly accused the Jewish state of committing "genocide of innocent Gazans."
- Lee leveled a baseless and highly inflammatory charge of "racism" against the bipartisan pro-Israel organization AIPAC when they criticized her anti-Israel record.
- And Lee made plans to speak on a program with speakers who cheered on the October 7 massacre at an event sponsored by a well known, anti-Semitic group, CAIR. Lee canceled only after she came under heavy pressure to do so and she refused to condemn the disgusting remarks by CAIR leaders and other event speakers.
Senator – sometimes partisan loyalties have to give way for common decency. We call on you to send a clear signal that you can no longer support someone with such an extreme record of hostility to Jews and Israel.
Please announce that you will rescind your endorsement of Congresswoman Summer Lee.
Thank you.