{"id":313269,"date":"2025-08-07T05:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313269"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:56:55","slug":"trump-issues-wild-threat-to-states-that-boycott-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313269","title":{"rendered":"Trump Issues Wild Threat to States That Boycott Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling \u2013 The New Republic Aug 4, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Trump administration will no longer distribute disaster relief funds to states\u2014unless their cities pledge not to boycott Israeli companies.<\/p>\n

The revision targets the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to curb Israel\u2019s violence in Gaza by peeling financial support away from the nation and its businesses.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s condition will affect $1.9 billion that is supposed to be distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and that would apply to grants for search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries, backup power systems, and other emergency-related equipment, according to nearly a dozen grant notices reviewed by Reuters<\/a>. More than a quarter of the funds\u2014approximately $553.5 million\u2014are earmarked for terrorism prevention in high-risk areas such as New York, which stands to receive the largest chunk at $92.2 million.<\/p>\n

In order to access the funds, states or cities must certify that they would not avoid or end \u201ccommercial relations specifically with Israeli companies,\u201d the grant notices state.<\/p>\n

But the FEMA notice is just the latest in a long line of warnings from the Trump administration regarding its alliance with Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Department of Homeland Security announced<\/a> in April that boycotting Israel was forbidden for any state or city intending to receive federal funding, and the White House has rescinded billions of dollars from universities around the country for failing to meet Trump\u2019s metric of support for America\u2019s genocidal<\/a> Middle Eastern ally.<\/p>\n

Specifically targeting New York is another way to challenge New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani\u2019s chances of running the country\u2019s most populous city. Mamdani\u2019s support for the divestment movement has fueled the ire of the president, who has issued several sharp threats to Mamdani since the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist swept the primary. Those include telling the Queens lawmaker that he \u201cbetter behave\u201d or face \u201cbig problems.\u201d Trump has also baselessly accused Mamdani of being an illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n

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