Senator Lindsey Graham is facing intense backlash on social media for his aggressive and controversial push to secure more aid for Israel. People are bringing up his opposition to much-needed aid for American citizens throughout the pandemic. Graham recently met with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and he boasted about it on Twitter, where he tried to promote the “More for Israel” slogan on Memorial Day.
On Tuesday morning, Graham took his pro-Israel campaign to Fox News audience and proceeded to hype up the threat of attacks from Hamas. “The people trying to destroy the state of Israel would kill you if they could,” Graham said. “The more people that try to destroy Israel, the more Hamas tries to destroy Israel, the more Iran tries to destroy Israel, the more aid that the United States will provide to Israel.”
For his efforts, Netanyahu has publicly praised Graham for his pro-Israel campaign. “No one has done more for Israel than you, Senator Lindsey Graham, stalwart champion of our alliance and we have no better friend,” the prime minister said, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Graham is facing increased backlash for fighting aggressively for Israeli aid despite spending the previous year delaying or outright voting against such pandemic relief efforts as stimulus payments, expanded unemployment insurance, and universal healthcare, on top of the already sensitive nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Graham, like most Republicans, opposes government spending, but when it comes to Israel, that ideology appears to have vanished.
