Urge Your Member of Congress to sign on to Rep. Rashida Tlaib's Dear Colleague Letter on Israel's Entry to the Visa Waiver Program

Next month Israel will greatly restrict Palestinians’ ability to travel to the West Bank, live, work, teach, study, and reunite with family members there. These new procedures will even force US citizens to provide Israel with incredibly intrusive information about the personal details of anyone they plan to visit in the West Bank, and any property Palestinians stand to inherit.

These new Israeli procedures issued by Israel’s Coordinating Office for Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT) are even more outrageous considering that Israel desperately wants to join the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), which would allow visa-free entry of Israeli citizens to the US.

However, this program requires that participating countries provide reciprocal, non-discriminatory treatment to US citizens. Instead of ending Israel’s discriminatory policies, these new procedures would increase the discrimination it metes out to US citizens based on their ethnicity, national origin, religion, and political opinions.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other progressives are pushing back against these procedures and demanding information from the Biden administration to ensure that Israel reverses its discriminatory policies toward US citizens. 

We can’t let this stand. Let’s build political pressure by getting your Representative to oppose these discriminatory Israeli policies!

CALL and WRITE to your Representative today to make sure they join this important congressional initiative.