We are part of a global community, and that means that our government’s policies don’t just impact us here. They have wide-ranging ripple effects in countries and communities all across the world.

Throughout our country’s history and especially obvious today, our government’s foreign policies are directly responsible for some of the worst human rights atrocities ever committed.

From Yemen and Congo, to Sudan and Palestine, U.S. foreign policy has financially supported genocide, fueled famine, and propped up systems of apartheid, all funded with our taxpayer dollars. This is unacceptable.

The U.S. government has a moral and legal obligation to uphold human rights, justice, and freedom, not just at home, but everywhere our foreign policy impacts. Congress, in particular, bears the responsibility to ensure that our tax dollars are never used to support war crimes or those who commit them and that no administration can unilaterally choose to engage in acts of war.

As your Congresswoman, I will use my position to invest in peace, strengthen international law, and uphold human rights. That is why I would support all efforts to advance the Block the Bombs Act and end weapons sales to any foreign government that is blatantly violating international law and human rights. I would also work aggressively to get special interests out of our politics, including AIPAC, defense contractor PACs and Super PACs that have a direct interest in continuing war, genocide, and human suffering for their own profit.

Amidst the ongoing genocide in Palestine, I will continue to demand an immediate end to the occupation and colonization of Arab lands, fight for full Palestinian human and civil rights, the recognition of Palestinian statehood, and the right of all Palestinians forcibly displaced to be able to return to their homes.