More US lawmakers join boycotting congressional speech of Israel's Pres.

More American lawmakers are joining the boycott of an upcoming speech by the Israeli regime’s president Isaac Herzog at the US Congress over the atrocities and rights violations committed against Palestinians by occupying entity.

Cori Bush, a Democratic representative for Missouri, was the latest member of the US Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), who brought the number of lawmakers skipping Herzog’s address on Wednesday to four.

Bush wrote in a post on her Twitter account that the Israeli regime was “responsible for enforcing an apartheid” system and “rampantly abusing the rights of Palestinians.”

The Democratic lawmaker insisted that the US Congress “should not be giving a platform” to a president that “shows no respect for human rights.”

CPC members are frequent critics of the occupying regime’s policies on the House floor.

Ilhan Omar, an African American congresswoman, was the first to make such a decision on Wednesday.

“There is no way in hell I am attending,” she wrote on Twitter.

The US Muslim lawmaker’s boycott was followed by other fellow CPC members, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman.

Herzog is scheduled to visit the White House on July 18 and address Congress the next day to mark the 75th year of the occupying regime’s establishment.

The Israeli regime barred Omar and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from visiting the occupied territories in 2019 over their support for Palestinian rights and membership in the anti-Israel caucus.

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The world’s prominent rights groups have already raised the alarm that the occupying regime is morphing into an apartheid system that gives Palestinians second-class status and is designed to maintain Zionist hegemony from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

The Israeli oppression of Palestinians has witnessed a sharp rise under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist coalition cabinet, which is composed of far-right Zionist parties that oppose Palestinian statehood and support the expansion of illegal settlements.

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Over the past months, the Israeli regime has intensified attacks against Palestinian towns and cities throughout the occupied territories. As a result of these attacks, dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives and many others have been arrested.

Most of the raids have targeted the cities of Nablus and Jenin in the occupied West Bank, where the regime’s forces have been trying to stifle a growing Palestinian resistance against the occupation.

One of the objectives of Israeli raids on various locations across the occupied West Bank has been to raze the structures that belong to the Palestinians, whom the regime accuses of killing Zionist settlers.

As a result of these attacks, over 160 Palestinians, including 28 children, have lost their lives and many others have been arrested in 2023.

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