Block the Bombs and Bulldozers

The Senate is preparing to vote on four Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) that would block the transfer of 27,000 bombs to Israel, valued at $660 million, and Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers, estimated at $295 million. The United States is funding and supplying these weapons, and Israel is using them. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) states this without equivocation: the United States and Israel are driving a campaign of bombardment, demolition, and displacement that is devastating lives across the region and destroying the infrastructure that makes life possible.

The bomb package (S.J. Res. 136, S.J. Res. 137, S.J. Res. 138) includes 5,000 250-pound small-diameter bombs, 10,000 500-pound bombs, and 12,000 1,000-pound bombs. The bulldozer resolution (S.J. Res. 32) targets Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers, machinery long used by Israel for home demolitions and forced displacement. These weapons and machines destroy the very foundations of life by destroying homes and shelter, uprooting communities, blocking return, and deepening permanent dispossession.

The United States funds, authorizes, and transfers the bombs and bulldozers. Israel is actively using them across Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, and its Golan Heights. That partnership is fueling a broader regional war and accelerating destruction across the region. This devastation is the direct result of political choice.

Together, these resolutions give senators a direct opportunity to stop more U.S. taxpayer money from funding destruction across the region. We must understand that these resolutions will not, on their own, stop U.S. policy. But that does not make them meaningless.

Votes like these force senators to go on the record. They show who is willing to object to sending more taxpayer-funded weapons and machinery, and who is willing to let it continue. They create a public marker. They give our movement something to organize around, something to build on, and something to remember.

At the very least, senators should have to answer for whether they support using our tax dollars to fund war and genocide. Take Action by calling on your senators to cosponsor and vote to block these transfers and take a direct step toward ending U.S. participation in war and genocide.