{"id":121327,"date":"2025-08-05T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/121327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:36:19","slug":"us-quickly-reverses-pledge-to-link-disaster-funds-to-israel-boycott-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/121327\/","title":{"rendered":"US quickly reverses pledge to link disaster funds to Israel boycott stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration quickly reversed course Monday on compelling American cities and states to avoid boycotts of Israeli companies in order to receive disaster funds, according to a statement, and deleted the earlier policy from its website hours after it was posted.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security removed its statement requiring states to certify they will not sever \u201ccommercial relations specifically with Israeli companies\u201d to qualify for the funding.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported earlier Monday that the language applied to at least $1.9 billion<\/a> that states rely on to cover search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries, and backup power systems, among other expenses, according to 11 agency grant notices reviewed by the news agency.<\/p>\n

This is a shift for the Trump administration, which has previously tried to penalize institutions that don\u2019t align with its views on Israel or antisemitism.<\/p>\n

The disaster funding requirement took aim at the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, designed to put economic pressure on Israel to end its control of the West Bank and Gaza. The campaign\u2019s supporters grew more vocal in 2023, after Hamas carried out its October 7 massacres in southern Israel, sparking the still ongoing war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFEMA grants remain governed by existing law and policy and not political litmus tests,\u201d said DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin in a statement on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin speaks during a news conference at ICE Headquarters, in Washington, May 21, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana\/AP)<\/p>\n

DHS oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA, in grant notices posted on Friday, said states must follow its \u201cterms and conditions\u201d to qualify for disaster preparation funding.<\/p>\n

Those conditions required that they not support what the agency called a \u201cdiscriminatory prohibited boycott,\u201d a term defined as refusing to deal with \u201ccompanies doing business in or with Israel.\u201d The new terms, posted later on Monday, do not include that language.<\/p>\n


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