A group of seven major labor unions has called upon President Joe Biden to stop sending military aid to Israel and work toward “an immediate and permanent cease-fire” for the war in Gaza.
The unions, almost all of which publicly backed Biden during his 2020 campaign, laid out their demands in a joint letter sent to the White House on Tuesday, a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address Congress.
They wrote that the three-phase cease-fire plan Biden outlined in late May had not been accepted by either Israel or Hamas, the militant group whose Oct. 7 attack killed roughly 1,200 Israelis. Netanyahu, they added, had “publicly refused key elements of the deal.”
“[I]t is clear that the Israeli government will continue to pursue its vicious response to the horrific attacks of October 7th until it is forced to stop,” the unions wrote. “We believe that immediately cutting US military aid to the Israeli government is necessary to bring about a peaceful resolution to this conflict.”
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