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This Week:

• Senate Democrats Slam Israel in Major Shift of Tone

• Biden and Hamas Prolonged the War, Not Netanyahu

• RJC in the News
• Sen. Ted Cruz Bill Will Designate Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization
• RJC is Celebrating 40 Years!

• Short Takes

• Week's Best Tweets

• Upcoming Events

Senate Democrats Slam Israel in Major Shift of Tone

Stephen Neukam at Axios reports:

Mainstream Senate Democrats are starting to echo their party's base, which has soured on supporting Israel.

Zoom in: Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a moderate Democrat from a swing state, this week slammed the Israeli government for the lack of humanitarian aid in Gaza and violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

..."I think it's way overdue to have Democratic members of Congress speak up and speak out about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), another moderate who has criticized Israel since the start of the war, told Axios on Wednesday.

...Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Axios that lawmakers are starting to understand "this is not just a moral issue, it's a political issue."

Van Hollen, a leading Senate Democratic voice against the Netanyahu government, told Axios he's happy to have more Democrats speak up.

RJC in the News

"Zero daylight": Trump-Netanyahu bromance takes D.C. by storm

For the third time in six months, [Benjamin] Netanyahu returned to DC for multiple meetings with [Donald] Trump himself, and with leading members of Congress of both parties.

...Allies of both leaders stressed the importance of Netanyahu’s latest visit.

"This visit by PM Netanyahu reinforced and showed to the world the historic and unprecedented partnership between the U.S. and Israel," Matt Brooks, the CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), said. "President Trump deserves much credit for moving America beyond the Biden/Harris policy of daylight and pressure on Israel to one where we are now in which there is zero daylight and total partnership between the two countries."

RJC Political Director Sam Markstein on Right for America Podcast with Cindy Grosz

RJC Political Director Sam Markstein and Cindy Grosz talked about the amazing events we've all seen in the past year. They looked at the stark contrast between Democrats and the GOP on support for Israel and at the amazing strength of the relationship between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the two countries. They also discussed the top legislative priorities and recent wins for Republicans in the House and Senate.

One year ago in Milwaukee

Sen. Ted Cruz Bill Will Designate Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is set to introduce legislation that would formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, financially crippling the global Islamist group and sanctioning its violent offshoots worldwide, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 adopts "a new modernized strategy" for designating the organization, which preaches terrorism against Israel, the United States, and Western governments...

Senator Cruz's office noted in a statement that the bill has the support of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

RJC is Celebrating 40 Years!

Have you seen our new look? Our logo has changed to reflect our pride in the 40th anniversary of the RJC's founding. From our start in 1985 to today, the RJC has been a unique, outspoken, and trusted voice for Jewish Republicans, bringing our message to Republican decision makers and the broader Jewish community.

We support a strong America, and that includes a strong US-Israel alliance. We don't hesitate to call out antisemitism, no matter which side of the political aisle it comes from. Republicans who support American security and prosperity, and who are friends of Israel and our community, know the RJC has their backs - in the policy fights in Washington and in their election battles.

All of this is possible only through the dedication and support of our members and leaders.

Please consider making a gift to the RJC today in honor of our 40 years of growth and success.

We need your support to keep moving forward!

Thank you!

Short Takes

Rosen: They firebombed our synagogues — and you said nothing

RJC Board of Directors member J. Philip Rosen writes at The Algemeiner:

"Since October 7, Jewish houses of worship have been torched in Germany, France, Australia, Canada, the United States, and beyond. Doors smashed. Entrances doused in accelerants. Molotov cocktails thrown.

"You may have missed the stories. Many did. These attacks are too often buried under euphemisms — dismissed as 'unrest,' framed as fringe, or worse, justified by the 'context.'

"Let’s be clear: this isn’t protest. It’s coordinated hate. And our governments are failing in their most basic duty — to protect citizens from violence, incitement, and terror.

..."If governments cannot — or will not — protect their Jewish citizens, they will lose far more than credibility. They will lose the right to claim they ever stood for justice at all."

Heinrichs: The Right’s 1939 project

[Tucker Carlson] is among the savviest operators out there. And he is well aware that anti-Israel invective and conspiracy thinking attracts attention in a culture that has lost trust in expertise and institutions—and is hunting for a scapegoat for America’s very real challenges.

...Many have tried to make sense of this emerging coalition of conspiracy theorists, cranks, and the craven. Some have called it “woke right.” Still others have rightly described it as the meeting of the horseshoe—the strange reality wherein Marjorie Taylor Greene praises Zohran Mamdani.

I believe this emerging movement can best be understood as the 1939 Project—a decentralized, right-wing, online analogue to the left’s 1619 Project. While differing in content and cultural context, both initiatives aim to radically revise Americans’ understanding of their national story, their cultural mores, and conversational guardrails in order to seize power.

Mandel: The media’s war on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

GHF is the America- and Israel-backed humanitarian distribution firm that feeds Gazan civilians but doesn’t funnel its supplies through Hamas. This way, there is no secondhand market that enriches and entrenches Hamas’s rule.

...The launch of the GHF should have been treated as a major step toward ending the war and prioritizing the wellbeing of Gazans over that of Hamas. Instead, the fact that GHF excluded Hamas was treated as a drawback.

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