ADC Supports Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Lebanon Resolutions, Urges Congress to Act Against Escalating Regional Violence and Unauthorized U.S. Military Involvement
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April 2, 2026
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Washington, D.C. | – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) strongly supports the two resolutions introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib addressing Israel’s escalating assault on Lebanon and the growing, unauthorized involvement of the United States in a widening regional war.
Israel’s assault on Lebanon has killed more than 1,500 people, including children, and displaced more than 1.2 million people. Israeli forces have demolished homes, apartment buildings, bridges, mosques, churches, water systems, sanitation networks, and medical facilities, attacked ambulances and first responders, and battered the country’s healthcare infrastructure. White phosphorus has been fired on residential neighborhoods as Israeli officials openly invoke the “Gaza model” for Lebanon and threaten displacement, territorial expansion, and long-term occupation.
Lebanon stands at the center of these resolutions, but Congress cannot treat Lebanon in isolation from the wider military campaigns threatening the region. Gaza remains shattered. Israeli violence and settlement expansion continue across the West Bank. The widening U.S.-Israel war on Iran is pushing the region toward even greater destruction. Rep. Tlaib’s own statement places Lebanon within this larger pattern, warning that the same genocidal playbook used in Gaza is now being carried into Lebanon.
Rep. Tlaib’s Lebanon resolution calls for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory, an end to airstrikes and violations of Lebanese sovereignty, suspension of U.S. military aid used in violation of international law, accountability for war crimes, humanitarian and reconstruction aid, the safe return of displaced Lebanese civilians, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Lebanese nationals in the United States.
The Lebanon War Powers Resolution addresses an equally urgent constitutional issue. Congress has not declared war and has not authorized U.S. military involvement in Lebanon, yet the United States has moved further into hostilities. The War Powers Resolution makes clear that Congress, not the President, holds the authority to declare war and to direct the removal of U.S. forces from unauthorized military action.
“Israel’s assault on Lebanon is unfolding alongside the destruction of Gaza, escalating violence in the West Bank, and the widening U.S.-Israel war on Iran, while the United States continues to bankroll this escalation with American taxpayer dollars,” said Abed Ayoub, National Executive Director of ADC. “Congress cannot keep funding the wars Israel wants, protecting Israel from accountability, and accepting permanent regional violence as the cost of doing business. American support has fueled mass killing, forced displacement, and the destruction of entire communities, and it must end.”
ADC urges every member of Congress to support Rep. Tlaib’s Lebanon resolution and War Powers resolution, oppose further military aid that fuels these attacks, and act immediately to stop the expansion of violence across Lebanon and the region.
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