Tell Congress: Reject U.S.–Israel Military Integration

Congress is moving to deepen U.S.–Israel military integration through Section 224 of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The House Armed Services Committee’s own language says this provision would require the Secretary of Defense to designate an executive agent to synchronize U.S.–Israel cooperative efforts across defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation.

ADC wholeheartedly rejects this dangerous proposal.

This is not “America First.” It is Israel First. The resolution language attached to this proposal gives it away: it expresses support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s initiative to transition the U.S.–Israel relationship toward mutual defense cooperation and joint economic investment. This language turns Congress into a vehicle for advancing Netanyahu’s agenda and asks the American people to treat it as their own national security policy.

Section 224 would move U.S. support for Israel away from the more transparent foreign-aid framework and into a maze of Pentagon procurement, licensing, data-sharing, and backdoor deals that are harder for Congress, taxpayers, and future administrations to monitor, cap, condition, or unwind. Concerns of undefined “network integration” and “data fusion” should alarm every American who cares about sovereignty, privacy, civil liberties, and democratic oversight.

At a time when Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, exporting surveillance technologies used against activists and journalists around the world, marketing military technology tested on Palestians, and carrying out terrorist attacks as seen in the cell phone in Lebanon, Congress should be cutting off military support — not integrating the U.S. military and Israeli defense sector and making accountability harder than ever. 

Take action now: Tell your members of the House Armed Services Committees to remove Section 224 from the FY2027 NDAA, reject Netanyahu’s Israel-first military integration agenda, and protect American taxpayers, civil liberties, and congressional oversight.