The US Federal Emergency Administration Agency said in a statement quoting the administration of US President Donald Trump that US states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies.
According to the agency’s conditions known as the Fema for the beneficiaries of grants, the states must acknowledge that they will not cut their “commercial relations with Israeli companies specifically” in order to receive funds from the agency.
In 11 notice of the agency on grants, according to Reuters, this condition applies to at least $ 1.9 billion on which the states depend to cover the costs of search and rescue equipment, the salaries of emergency managers, reserve energy systems and other expenses.
This is the latest example of the Trump administration’s use of regular federal financing in strengthening its political mission at the state level, according to the agency, which said last July, that it will ask the states to spend part of the federal anti -terrorism funds in helping the government to arrest migrants, a priority for the US administration.
Domestic voices began within the Democratic Party that publicly expresses its anger at Netanyahu and his policy in managing the war in Gaza, in a development that threatens to reshape the relationship that brought the two parties for decades.
This condition targets the BDS movement and withdrawing investments from it and imposing sanctions on it, which is a campaign aimed at exerting economic pressure on Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The votes of the supporters of the campaign in 2023 after the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, said a spokesman for the Minister of Internal Security Christie Naim in a statement: “The ministry will implement all laws and policies to combat discrimination, including those related to the movement of the boycott of Israel, which is explicitly based on anti -Semitism.”
He pointed out: “This condition is largely symbolic.”
The Pennsylvania University’s Legal Patrol said that at least 34 states already have laws or policies against the boycott.
A notification related to the granting was published on Friday that the agency will ask the major cities to approve the policy of Israel to obtain $ 553.5 million for combating terrorism in areas with high population density.
The notice revealed that New York City is scheduled to receive $ 92.2 million from the program, which is the largest amount of all beneficiaries. The allocations are based on the agency’s analysis “for the relative risk of terrorism”.
