The West Bank is being ethnically cleansed. Gaza is enduring genocide. And as Palestine is destroyed piece by piece, the US Congress is quietly advancing two bills that would permanently bind America's military and intelligence apparatus to Israel's, with no human rights conditions, no genocide exception, and no way out.

SECTION 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, now renumbered Section 219 in the House and Section 1217 in the Senate, would establish a United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. It mandates joint weapons research, co-production, AI, autonomous systems, cyber and electronic warfare, quantum computing, and directed energy, and embeds Israeli technology directly into the US defense supply chain. The Quincy Institute warns it would do more to intertwine the two militaries than the more than 200 billion dollars in military aid the US has given Israel since 1948. One retired Air Force officer told The Intercept he could not think of another example of Congress formalizing integration of critical national security technologies with a foreign power.

SECTION 622 of the Intelligence Authorization Act, introduced by Senate Intelligence Committee chair Tom Cotton as S.4615, would amend the National Security Act of 1947 itself to mandate expanded intelligence sharing with Israel across cybersecurity, terrorism, sanctions evasion, missile threats, and drones. It would make it nearly impossible for any future president to reduce or restrict that sharing, even in the face of war crimes, atrocities, or genocide. Critically, the bill contains no mention of human rights violations or violations of the law of armed conflict as grounds to suspend cooperation.

"Sections 224 and 622 represent a dangerous attempt to permanently lock the United States into deeper military and intelligence integration with Israel, regardless of its conduct." CAIR

This matters because Israel has a long and documented history of spying on the United States, not as an adversary, but as a supposed ally. In June 2026, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency raised its counterintelligence threat assessment of Israel to the highest possible level, "critical," after finding that Israeli espionage had surged far beyond what is typical even between adversaries. Israel was found to have been actively eavesdropping on Trump's own special envoy Steve Witkoff during the Iran negotiations.

This is nothing new. Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy intelligence analyst, spied for Israel and stole such a volume of classified secrets that then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told the court it was difficult to "conceive of a greater harm to national security." That stolen intelligence was reportedly passed by Israel to the Soviet Union. Pollard was released in 2015, celebrated by Netanyahu, and moved to Israel, where he has announced plans to run for the Knesset.

The pattern repeats across decades. In 2004, Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin passed classified US policy documents on Iran to AIPAC lobbyists, who relayed them to Israeli diplomats. In 2014, US officials accused Israel of "crossing red lines" by using cyber espionage to steal proprietary information from American firms. In 2015, Israel intercepted communications between US officials during the Iran nuclear talks.

The conflict of interest is open. Section 622's sponsor, Tom Cotton, has received over one million dollars from AIPAC. Both Sections 224 and 622 are backed by AIPAC and FDD Action. But opposition is bipartisan and growing: Rep. Thomas Massie has pledged to offer an amendment to strip Section 224 on the House floor, and senators from both parties have begun speaking out.

Both bills are actively moving through Congress right now. Contact your senators and representatives and demand they vote no.