On May 26, 2026, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen published a New York Times opinion essay calling for the next Democratic president to formally recognize a State of Palestine and condition all future US arms sales to Israel on a time-bound plan to end the occupation. It is the most direct and forceful statement to date from a sitting US senator on the need to use American leverage against Israel, and it landed at the moment the Democratic Party is still avoiding any honest reckoning with its 2024 loss.
Van Hollen, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member, stated that “while Republicans’ approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has failed, so has ours,” and that the Democratic Party has provided Israel with “reflexive and unconditional support.” He went further, describing the apartheid in the occupied West Bank, ethnic cleansing under settler expansion, and the genocide in Gaza.
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