Section 224 Must Go: No U.S.-Israel Military-Industrial Merger

I am demanding that you act immediately to remove Section 224 from the FY2027 NDAA. To members of the House Armed Services Committee: vote YES on Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to strike Section 224 completely. To all other House members: publicly oppose Section 224, introduce or support any floor amendment to remove it, and vote NO on any NDAA that includes it. Section 224 would create a Defense Department Executive Agent to accelerate and synchronize the U.S.-Israel military relationship, including joint weapons development, Israeli weapons integration into U.S. systems, co-production, procurement pathways, joint ventures, licensing agreements, joint training, and information-sharing. This is unacceptable. The United States should not deepen military integration with any country in this way — and especially not with Israel, given its long record of occupation, apartheid, forced displacement, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Section 224 is not ordinary aid. It is potentially worse: a structural military partnership that could make U.S. complicity harder to see, harder to challenge, and harder to undo. Congress should be ending weapons transfers, imposing accountability, and cutting military cooperation with Israel — not creating new mechanisms to integrate Israeli weapons companies, military technology, AI systems, data fusion, and battlefield tools into U.S. defense systems. Remove Section 224 completely. Do not amend it. Do not “improve” it. Strike it from the NDAA. I expect every House member to publicly oppose Section 224 and vote against any NDAA that includes it.