States boycotting Israel to go without US federal funds
The Trump administration has been connected to the political stance of routine federal financing, and announced that federal aid will be rejected for the preparation of the US states and cities that boycotted Israeli companies.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said that states should follow the “conditions and conditions ında in the grant notifications published on Friday. These conditions require that they will not copy “commercial relations with Israel companies, especially in order to qualify for financing.
According to the 11 agency grant notification reviewed by Reuters, it applies to at least $ 1.9 billion ($ A2.9 billion) that rely on requirements, search and rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries and reserve power systems.
The need is an effort to use federal financing to promote the views of the Trump administration on Israel.
The agency, which controls FEMA, said that the Boycott of Israel in April is prohibited for the states and cities that took the grant funds.
Fema said separately in July, US states should spend some of the fundal prevention funds to help the government to arrest immigrants.
Israel requirement aims at BDS, boycott, disposal and sanction movement. After Hamas attacked Southern Israel and occupied Israel in response to Gaza, the supporters of the campaign grew more vocals in 2023.
“DHS will openly apply all anti -antidiary laws and policies, as it is related to the BDS movement on anti -Semitism,” DHS will openly. ” He said.
The requirement is largely symbolic. According to Pennsylvania University Law Journal, at least 34 states already have anti -BDS laws or policies.
Mahmud Nawajaa of the BDS movement on Monday, Fema’s Israeli needs, “embarrassing,” he said.
The group’s anti -Semitism policy director Holly Huffnagle, the American Jewish Committee supports the policy of the Trump administration. AJC is an advocacy group that supports Israel.
In accordance with one of the grant notifications released on Friday, FEMA will ask for a deduction of USD $ 553.5 million (A856.4 million), left aside to prevent terrorism in dense areas.
New York, the most important of the buyers will receive $ 92.2 million (A142.6 million) from the program. The allocations are based on the agency’s “Risk of Relative Terrorism” analysis of the agency.
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