As Israel celebrates the return of the young women hostages whose warnings of a Hamas attack were ignored, will the deadly hubris & sexism be acknowledged?

Dina Kraft is a journalist, podcaster and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, My Friend Anne Frank, together with Hannah Pick-Goslar. She lives in Tel Aviv where she's the Israel Correspondent of  The Christian Science Monitor and a creator of the podcast Groundwork, about activists working in Israel and Palestine. She was formerly opinion editor of Haaretz English. 

1. Bills, Resolutions
2. Letters
3. Hearings
4. Selected Members on the Record
5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements

1. Bills & Resolutions

Update:

• (TARGETING THE ICC) HR 23: On 1/23/25, a cloture motion was presented in the Senate on the motion to proceed with consideration of HR 23, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. Also see: Thune tees up Senate vote on International Criminal Court sanctions [“The bill, which received bipartisan support in the House, will need votes from at least seven Democratic senators to pass“] (Jewish Insider 1/23/25); X-thread 1/24/25 from Senate Republicans – “In 2020, the International Criminal Court started investigating American troops. Last year, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. If the corrupt ICC succeeds in targeting Israel, Americans will be next. Our ICC sanctions bill will protect American troops. That’s why every House Republican, 45 House Democrats, and 55% of Americans support sanctions. But some Democrat Senators still have concerns—all of those concerns are misguided. Critics have called the ICC sanctions bill “draconian.” Far from draconian, the same standard property and visa restrictions were used 49 times by the Obama and Biden administrations. Some believe the ICC bill targets “citizens of our allies” and that it could undermine our alliances. But the bill only targets officials directly involved in action against the United States and our allies–and no ally of ours values the ICC more than the United States. Finally, other critics think that sanctioning the ICC will harm its prosecution of war crimes. But the ICC has already failed to prosecute the worst war crimes of Putin, Bashir, or Khamenei. Clearly, there are better ways to stop war criminals. The ICC sanctions bill is a targeted, justified response to the ICC’s outrageous attack on Israel and America. Sanctioning the ICC today will protect American troops and make America safer.” AIPAC Action Alert.

New Legislation — Targeting Palestinians & Support for Palestinian Lives/Rights

• (TARGETING CAMPUS PROTEST/FREE SPEECH ON PALESTINE) S. 163: Introduced 1/21/2025 by Cassidy (R-LA) and Fetterman (D-PA), the “Protecting Students on Campus Act of 2025,” aka, “A bill to require institutions of higher education participating in Federal student aid programs to share information about title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including a link to the webpage of the Office for Civil Rights where an individual can submit a complaint regarding discrimination in violation of such title, and for other purposes.” Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. See press release – Chair Cassidy, Fetterman Reintroduce Bill to Protect Students from Antisemitism, Discrimination on College Campuses. NOTE: this bill was previously introduced in the 118th Congress (S. 3580/HR 7735). Also see: Bipartisan bill targeting antisemitism, discrimination on campus reintroduced in Senate (The Hill 1/21/25); Cassidy, Fetterman reintroduce legislation encouraging students to file Title VI complaints over campus antisemitism (Jewish Insider 1/21/25)