Dear Congressman Ivey,
Our communities in Prince George’s County are trying to weather a great deal right now, as you know, and the Republican-led Congress is about to create even more crises as they seek to cut funding from critical programs.
It’s disappointing that your response to this is to support billions and billions of tax dollars to fund Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine. This includes over $370 million dollars from Maryland taxpayers, including over $1.7 million from Greenbelt, over $1.8 million from Suitland, and nearly $1.5 million from College Park.
Gaza is experiencing one of the biggest mass starvation crises in modern history. As of July 13, 2025 the UN confirmed more than 875 Palestinians were killed while seeking food—201 on aid routes and the rest at distribution points. Sending aid to Israel does nothing to support global peace, health, or security–or the interests of the American people. Israel actively works against these goals.
With the lock down of Gaza, Israel has undermined basic human rights norms, nearly embroiled the US in an unnecessary war with Iran, and demonstrated tremendous bad faith in their engagement of international diplomacy. Their recent actions – pre-empting diplomatic negotiations with attacks on Iran, continuing to limit aid to starving civilians in Gaza, and murdering Palestinians trying to get that aid – make their genocidal motives and unchecked aggression plain. The U.S. cannot continue to give Israel a blank check.
This is not just our view – as recent polling demonstrates, the majority of Americans, and a strong majority of Democrats, now express negative opinions of Israel. Half say that the U.S. is favoring Israel “too much.” And over a third of American Jews –in whose name so much of this money has been given – share that sentiment.
We are writing to ask you to vote ‘No’ on any bills in Congress that send more funds to Israel. This money directly supports an ongoing ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis that has been going on for over a year and a half. If you continue to support these bills, then we will support a different Congressional candidate in 2026 who does not support these atrocities and represents their constituents.