Bill Text: US HR786 2023-2024 118th Congress Introduced

Table Of Content

• This small, Latino city took a public stance in support of Palestinians. Will others follow?
• Trump likens Columbia protests to Jan. 6, part of effort to downplay Capitol attack
• Dueling Gaza protests at UCLA draw hundreds as USC sees peaceful demonstration
• H.Res. 786: Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.
• US Congress State Sources
• Statements about H.RES.786: Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.
• Photos: Tensions grow as pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses continue

A Mayor, City Controller, and City Attorney are elected by City residents every four years. Fifteen City Council members representing fifteen districts are elected by the people for four-year terms, for a maximum of three terms. Bangor police say seven people were arrested and were taken to Penobscot County Jail. BANGOR (WGME/BDN) -- A group of protesters were arrested on Wednesday after staging a sit-in at U.S. In San Francisco, Dean Preston, a member of the Board of Supervisors, said he had decided a couple of weeks ago to introduce a resolution, seeking input from a host of advocacy groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center.

This small, Latino city took a public stance in support of Palestinians. Will others follow?

There’s a long-standing dispute between legislators and the powerful State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents a variety of skilled laborers, over what this and other housing-related bills should say. But the agency could still apply for federal and state grants, so it makes sense to create it as soon as possible. Also Kamlager is trying to get an allocation of $20 million in the state budget for the agency, which she says could help with rental subsidies, preservation of existing affordable housing and some new construction.

Trump likens Columbia protests to Jan. 6, part of effort to downplay Capitol attack

Early support for Israel following the Oct. 7 slaughter of some 1,200 Israelis by Hamas has been met with calls to help Palestinians. Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman of New York and Jamie Raskin of Maryland urged Democrats to vote present, even as they knew it was hard for many of their colleagues to not support any measure dealing with antisemitism. The GOP-drafted Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act passed on a party-line Nov. 2 vote, providing $14.3 billion in emergency military aid for Israel. Underwood’s no vote on the Jewish student measure surprised and angered some supporters. In the wake of the backlash, Underwood has met several times with longtime Jewish Democratic backers who were stunned by her vote.

Dueling Gaza protests at UCLA draw hundreds as USC sees peaceful demonstration

It has attracted 17 cosponsors, all Democrats, generally considered to be on the left wing of the party. Rep. Massie, the lone Republican holdout on the pro-Israel resolution, has not signed on to this one either. A simple resolution is used for matters that affect just one chamber of Congress, often to change the rules of the chamber to set the manner of debate for a related bill. It must be agreed to in the chamber in which it was introduced.

Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine. Progressives argue that this embryonic war should stop now, before it potentially kills far more people or lasts far longer. After all, think of how many erroneously underestimated the wars in Ukraine or Iraq would last.

US Congress State Sources

US: Biden's hometown passes Gaza ceasefire resolution - The New Arab

US: Biden's hometown passes Gaza ceasefire resolution.

Posted: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]

The push has been especially intense in heavily Democratic states like California, where pro-Palestinian activists and progressives have expressed frustration with the Biden administration and pressured Democratic-led cities with organized campaigns. Jewish organizations have been alarmed by the effort, which they say has involved antisemitic language and minimized the kidnappings and killings by Hamas. In Seattle, the debate consumed much of two City Council meetings. In San Francisco, the line to speak stretched long all night under the City Hall dome. The Oakland City Council spent four hours just on public comment.

Two hostages taken in Israel, since released, were from Evanston. And in Plainfield, Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, was killed because of his ethnicity and Muslim faith, law enforcement officials said. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are becoming increasingly frequent in Chicago. Months earlier, only eight people spoke about the city’s endorsement of the Ebony Alert Bill, which establishes an alert system to help find lost Black youth throughout the state. Jewish organizations calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war staged a sit-in Monday at an Oakland federal building. Like in Richmond, debate over Oakland’s resolution lasted for hours, with hundreds of speakers and more than a thousand messages posted online.

Calls upon the Biden administration to promptly send and facilitate the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza. The text of the resolution below is as of Oct 25, 2023 (Introduced). “You can be both pro-Israel and pro the protection of innocent people in Gaza,” Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the nonpartisan American Immigration Lawyers Association, recently told the Washington Post. Also, the legislative text also assigns no responsibility for the current events, as though people just suddenly started dying for no reason. Without indicating who did what, it could very easily lead to a false presumption that only Israel is at fault.

South Tucson approves resolution for Israel-Hamas cease-fire - The Arizona Republic

South Tucson approves resolution for Israel-Hamas cease-fire.

Posted: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

Palestinian civilian deaths in Hamas-controlled Gaza from Israeli military air and ground strikes are soaring as Hamas refuses to release hostages seized during its brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Like a number of other locals, though, she didn’t feel the council had overstepped its role. A Corona Del Mar Middle and High School student was suspended this week for remarks made to another student that included the words “Free Palestine,” according to school officials and social media posts. Weber was referencing Israel’s alliance with the United States. America contributed $3.3 billion in foreign assistance to Israel in 2022, the latest year for which information was available, according to USAFacts.org. Almost all that money went to military assistance, according to the fiscal government watchdog.

This resolution is in the first stage of the legislative process. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole. Hamas terrorists also took civilians hostage to hide them in Gaza — mostly Israelis, though also some Americans.

The local resolutions have ranged from broad denunciations of violence against all civilians to pointed pro-Palestinian pronouncements. Many have demanded that Hamas release all hostages and denounced antisemitism as well as Islamophobia. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., one of Trump’s major defenders, was the chief sponsor of a resolution voted on Dec. 13 condemning antisemitism on university campuses and the testimony of three university presidents in a Dec. 5 hearing. Like Richmond, the cities of Cudahy and Oakland recently passed resolutions.

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Campbell Robertson, Jenna Russell, Mitch Smith and Rick Rojas contributed reporting. In nearby Berkeley, a cornerstone of the anti-war movement during the 1960s, the City Council can’t reach consensus. Meetings have become so unruly that the council hasn’t been able to convene in person for two weeks. The group’s executive director, Rida Hamida, said she spent nearly a decade working in federal and state government, which taught her the importance of being directly heard by elected officials.

He said he heard from a Palestinian woman in San Francisco who has lost 100 family members in Gaza since the attacks began — including another seven in one recent day. In Southern California, the nonprofit Latino Muslim Unity pushed the Cudahy resolution and has urged Santa Ana, Long Beach and other cities near an Anaheim business district known as “Little Arabia” to pass cease-fire proclamations. Advocates for cease-fire resolutions say that they have few other options to get the attention of Washington, where Congress and the White House still support Israel’s military effort.

They are coordinating efforts to convince elected leaders in various regions of the need to take action, offering stock language and urging constituents to lobby. A carefully worded resolution in Oakland last week triggered a raucous, hourslong debate and spawned a widely condemned video of assorted commenters who defended Hamas and questioned news accounts of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Debate over proposed calls for a cease-fire drew overflow crowds long into the night this week in Santa Ana, Calif., and San Francisco, where more than 1,000 antiwar demonstrators massed on the Golden Gate Bridge on Wednesday at sunrise. One protester scaled the large flagpole at the south end of the bridge to fly a Palestinian flag under an American one before the police ordered its removal and made an arrest. As the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has mounted and bombing has killed more than 15,500 people according to Gaza health officials, disagreements have roiled communities large and small.

But this resolution, which will never get a vote in the GOP-run House, is unacceptable to most Democrats because it is backed by “the Squad” and their allies, the hard left wing of the Democratic Party, and there was no mention of Hamas or of getting the hostages back. And in October, it seemed one-sided, asking Israel to stop its incursion without making any demand from Hamas. Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Chicagoan in her first year in Congress, has emerged as one of the highest-profile chief co-sponsors of the Bush measure, joined by, from Illinois, Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Jonathan Jackson. The other initial co-sponsors include members known as “the Squad,” Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York; Rashida Tlaib of Michigan; and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. The Oakland meeting made national headlines after a clip on social media showed several speakers opposing an amendment to the resolution that would have condemned Hamas, with some speakers appearing to back the militant organization. Gov. Gavin Newsom and others later criticized the comments on Hamas.