Radical Democrats Against Israel JNS - Jewish News Syndicate APR 16, 2026
Nearly all Senate Democrats vote to block Israel arms sales
The resolutions were defeated with support from a handful of Senate Democrats and every Republican.
All but seven Democratic senators voted to block an arms sale to Israel on Wednesday in the latest sign of waning support for the Jewish state on the Left in the United States.
Senators voted down a pair of motions to discharge the two resolutions that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced in March to block sales of bulldozers and bombs to the Israel Defense Forces, but by significantly narrower margins than in previous votes.
Forty senators, all Democrats, voted to discharge the resolution to block the bulldozer sales, and 36 of them also voted to block the sale of bombs.
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