<p>Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) admitted on Tuesday that a sizable number of Democrats are constantly on the look out for ways to attack the state of Israel.</p>
<p>Slotkin made the remarks on social media after Democrat leaders removed a provision from a short-term government spending bill to help fund Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome which protects its citizens from terrorist attacks like the ones out of Gaza earlier this year.</p>
<p>“There has never been a situation where military aid for Israel was held up because of objections from members of Congress,” Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/democrats-iron-dome-government-funding-2e81d2d4-8001-4f97-a4cc-23c1db6b3c17.html">reported</a>. “While the funding will get a vote in its current defense bill, the clash underscores the deep divisions within the Democratic party over Israel.”</p>
<p>Slotkin then took to Twitter to address the issue, saying that the anti-Israel policy positions of some in her party were “devoid of substance” and that they were “irresponsible.” She did not call out any specific member of her party.</p>
<p>&#8220;Iron Dome is a purely *defensive* system — it protects civilians when hundreds of rockets are shot at population centers. Whatever your views on the Israeli-Pal conflict, using a system that just saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives as a political chit is problematic,&#8221; Slotkin said. &#8220;Iron Dome, like other missile defense systems, was co-developed by the US and Israel. The research that went into the design of this system is shared between our two countries and can be used to protect our bases abroad, in addition to Israeli civilians in their homes.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Continued financial support of Iron Dome was part of the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding negotiated by President Obama. This isn’t new funding, or unusual funding, or a precipitous increase in funding,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;All of this is publicly-available information. So to target Iron Dome now means the issue isn’t a genuine concern over the system, but rather the desire to attack something &#8211; anything &#8211; related to the State of Israel; it’s devoid of substance and irresponsible.&#8221;</p>
<p>Slotkin&#8217;s decision to speak out her party&#8217;s growing anti-Israel policies comes after she previously refused to answer questions back in 2019 about whether Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) should face consequences for their repeated instances of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another day, another freshman Democrat refusing to stand up to anti-Semitic hate. Here&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSlotkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepSlotkin</a> refusing to say whether Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib should face any consequences for their hateful remarks. <a href="https://t.co/HivTLTEm1Y">https://t.co/HivTLTEm1Y</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MI08?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MI08</a> <a href="https://t.co/GPHo0rsWGC">pic.twitter.com/GPHo0rsWGC</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Congressional Leadership Fund (@CLFSuperPAC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLFSuperPAC/status/1130498204049510400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Slotkin was not the only Democrat that was unhappy with the decision as others criticized it on social media but failed to call out their party or anyone in specific.</p>
<p>“Iron Dome is a defensive system used by one of our closest allies to save civilian lives. It needs to be replenished because thousands of rockets were fired by the Hamas terrorists who control Gaza. Consider this my pushing back against this decision,” Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTedDeutch/status/1440368182045200393">wrote</a> on Twitter. “Last December, the House voted to fund missile defense for our ally Israel. Since then, Iron Dome has saved the lives of Israelis and Palestinians when Hamas fired 4,300 rockets. Missile defense saves the lives of people terrorists want to kill.  That’s why we must support it.”</p>
<p>Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRitchie/status/1440376513799417868">wrote</a>, “A missile defense system (i.e. Iron Dome) defends civilians from missiles. Hence the name. Only in a morally inverted universe would this be considered a ‘controversy.’”</p>
<p><em>This report has been updated to include additional information. </em></p>

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