REMINDER: At some point last month X appears to have killed the feature that allowed me to (relatively) easily track what members of Congress are saying using keyword searches of X lists (after previously killing the functionality that permitted me to conduct this tracking via a script). AS A RESULT: if you want track what members of Congress are saying about Israel/Palestine/Iran/etc on X, you – like me – are now obliged to track 535 accounts individually. Which I don’t have the capacity to do. Meaning that this section of the Round-Up will henceforth be a lot thinner, comprised of press releases posted on members’ website and statements on the Congressional Record, as well as odds and ends of statements on X that I have come across. 

ALSO REMINDER: It is simply beyond the capacity of the Round-Up to track [let alone document] what every member of the House and Senate is saying about the US/Israel war with Iran. To see what a specific member has said, check their websites and social media accounts.

Israel/AIPAC & US politics/elex – general

• Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) 4/1/26: X-post – “The Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment. Consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and U.S. law. Netanyahu’s allies in the Knesset just approved a $45 billion defense budget, and the Prime Minister himself also asserted his interest in withdrawing from the MOU with the United States in January. It is fully within their ability to fund Iron Dome and other defensive systems. Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act.” Also see response from Arab Center Washington’s Yousef Munayyer – “This is all well and good but if we have decided we should not give Israel military financing (we shouldn’t!) because they violate international law and human rights with them on the regular, then we should not sell them weapons either, even if they can afford it.“; Took long enough, but AOC finally tiptoes into criticizing Israel: ‘I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars’ (We Got this Covered 4/2/26)
• Khanna (D-CA) 4/1/26: X-post – “The Iron Dom is important & saves lives. Israel should be able to buy it on their own with a $45 defense billion budget. Israel is a first world country, and it can pay for the defensive systems it needs. We should not be subsidizing them, especially given their egregious violations of human rights law. Even Netanyahu has recognized the inevitability of Israel moving away from US aid.” Part of X-conversation with journalist Jasper Nathaniel
• Gottheimer (D-NJ) 3/31/26: X-post – “Nope. Hasan Piker is a proud antisemite who said “America deserved 9/11” and referred to Jews as “inbred.” His voice should have no place in our political discourse and all elected officials should condemn his rhetoric. We can’t lend credibility to figures who preach hate.” Responding to post from Mehdi Hassan w/ video clip featuring Bernie Sanders – “America’s most famous and beloved Jewish politician says “in many respects [Hasan Piker] is doing a very good job.”  Also see Hassan’s X-post in reply to Gottheimer’s response : “1. What do you mean “nope”? Bernie is indeed the most popular Jewish politician in America. You on the other hand came fourth in the New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial primary with 12% of the vote. 2. Piker apologized for his 9/11 remarks. And he didn’t refer to Jews as “inbred” but to anti-Palestinian, far-right orthodox Jews in Israel. It’s offensive I admit, and not a phrase I would use, but in the interests of full information and fairness Piker is a generally foul-mouthed streamer who uses it for others, for non-Jews too, so it wasn’t antisemitic in intent and he clearly wasn’t referring to Jews in general. 3. Be honest – you hate Piker not because of his antisemitism but because of his anti-Zionism, as you never get this mad when Trump and top Republicans are regularly saying openly antisemitic things. 4. Talking of hate preaching, aren’t you the guys who your own fellow House Dems reportedly got mad at for saying a “shit” thing about US Muslim religious leaders being to blame for terrorism?“
• Lawler (R-NY) 3/31/26: X-post – “Effie Phillips-Staley standing shoulder to shoulder with an antisemite who praised the 9/11 attacks and glorified Hezbollah and Hamas is utterly disqualifying, and so is the refusal of Cait Conley, Beth Davidson, Peter Chatzky, and all of my Democratic opponents to loudly and publicly rebuke it as well.“
• Khanna (D-CA) 3/31/26: X-post – “The powerful elite in this country are coming after me because I dared stand up to their coordinated attacks on working people. They’re coming after me because I dared expose their relationships to Epstein and the coverups they engaged in for years while survivors suffered. They’re coming after me because I want to put an end to the war machine that sends Americans overseas to die in endless wars. I want Americans to have healthcare. That disrupts their profits. I want Americans to have childcare. That disrupts their profits. AIPAC put money into ads against me and special interests are funding challengers to try and make an example of us for standing up. We will not give up, and we will not give in. I will continue to fight for the working class, that has been abused by the powerful elite for so long….”
• Senate Republicans 3/31/26: X-post w/ video clip – “‘.@MikeRogersForMI CALLS OUT antisemitic Abdul El-Sayed for standing with the Ayatollah: ‘He was sympathizing with a terrorist trying to kill children… who by the way was in the process of slaughtering 40,000 of his own people.’ ‘This is why this race becomes so important.’”
• Jayapal (D-WA) 3/29/26: X-post – “I warned Biden and Harris directly: Our silence on Gaza was morally, legally, and politically wrong. We were told it wasn’t in the data. That wasn’t strategy – it was risk aversion dressed up as wisdom. Democrats cannot make that same mistake again this midterm season.“
• Khanna (D-CA) 3/28/26: X-post – “A new moral direction is opposing the fuel embargo that is causing blackouts & hunger in Cuba. Saying the truth about the genocide in Gaza. Not sending military weapons to kill civilians to Israel. Opposing Iran war. Americans are deeply good & want us to be for human rights.” Responding to AIPAC X-post – “A moral direction like you, @RoKhanna, embracing someone who says America deserved 9/11 and compares Zionists to neo-Nazis?” Responding to Khanna X-post 3/27/26: “Yes, standing up for human rights is the most basic litmus test. Our party needs a new moral direction.” Responding to Politico X-post w/ video clip 3/26/26: “Dem @GovAndyBeshear is declining to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.” “That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party,” he told our @DashaBurns on #TheConversation. Listen to the full interview: https://politi.co/4uVmEfE“

Israel/West Bank/Gaza/Jerusalem

• Foushee (D-NC) 4/3/26: X-post – “I am grateful to see the @UN taking steps to reunite families affected by this conflict. The United States cannot continue to affirm the continued actions of Netanyahu’s government that has led to this—we must stop arms sales to Israel immediately.” Responding to Reuters story, Babies evacuated from Gaza two years ago returned to their overjoyed parents
• Lee (D-PA) 3/31/26: X-post – “This is apartheid, plain and simple. Palestinian prisoners already experience injustice in Israeli military courts, torture in Israeli prisons, and now executions legalized by the Israeli government. No more genocide and no more ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” Re-posting Mondoweiss X-post – “BREAKING: Israel’s Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.“
• Van Hollen (D-MD) 3/31/26: X-post – “Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?“
• Ramirez (D-Il) 3/31/26: X-post – “The death penalty has always been inhumane. And in a system that has been weaponized against Palestinians, the Israeli government will utilize capital punishment to further a genocide under the guise of legality. It is despicable. Congress can assert its authority and end its complicity in these horrors. Not one more dollar. Not one more excuse. Let’s Block the Bombs.“
• Goldman (D-NY) 3/31/26: X-post – “Absolutely abhorrent. This law unambiguously creates a two tiered system of justice based entirely on which form of extremism is deemed acceptable. I pray Israeli courts do the right thing and strike it down. Israel’s future must remain democratic. Its survival depends on it.“
• Tlaib (D-MI) 3/30/26: X-post – “The Israeli government is about to pass a law mandating the death penalty, only for Palestinian prisoners. Mass execution by hanging, solely on racial lines. This is apartheid and the next step in the genocide of Palestinians, already systematically tortured in Israeli prisons.“
• Goldman (D-NY) 3/29/26: X-post – “Netanyahu’s policy of green-lighting de facto annexation and looking the other way on settler mob violence has created a tinderbox that could burn down peace and democracy for both Israelis and Palestinians. We, as Americans, cannot let this stand. President Trump must do more to pressure this government to reverse course.“
• Cruz (R-TX) 3/29/26: X-post – “Amb Huckabee is correct. This was a mistake by the Israeli police. The security concerns are real, but they should not have prevented the Patriarch from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to conduct the Palm Sunday blessing. I trust this mistake will be corrected quickly.” Responding to X-post from US Ambassador to Israel Huckabee rationalizing Israel’s decision to prohibit the Latin Patriarch from entering Church of Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday as an “unfortunate overreach” and noting that “Israel has indicated it will work with the Patriarch to accommodate a safe means of carrying out Holy Week activities.“

Targeting Free Speech/Right to Protest/Academia critical of Israel/Zionism; Weaponization of Claims of Antisemitism; NGO Sector

• House Ways & Means Committee (GOP) 3/30/26: Ways & Means Investigation Leads to Tax-Exempt Organization Cutting Ties with Terrorist-Affiliated Group
• Torres (D-NY) 3/27/26: X-post – “There is no greater threat to democracy than political violence. The assassination plot targeting Nerdeen Kiswani is not only a crime against an individual—it is an assault on American democracy, which cannot long survive the substitution of violence for politics. In a liberal democracy, disagreement must be resolved not by force but by the force of debate. Those who corrode our civil society with the acid of political violence must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Period. To paraphrase a quote often attributed to Voltaire: ‘I shall disagree with what you say but I shall defend to death your right to say it.’” Note response on X from Guy Christensen: “How dare Ritchie Torres claim to stand for free speech- He helped expel me from university over TikTok videos I made criticizing his genocide profiteering. A federal judge said in Jan that there was 0 evidence. He’s a disgusting killer of Palestinian children and enemy to American students.“

Islamophobia

• Roy (R-TX) 3/29/26: X-post – “No more Muslims. No more criminals. No more marxists. No more corporatists. #SaveTexas”

5. Selected Media