John Fetterman, a hawkish US senator who represents Americans but speaks for Israel

By Musa Iqbal

It is no secret that the political apparatus of the United States is teeming with Zionists. 

While some politicians are sleek in their support for the Zionist Occupation (with politically convenient cries for 'civility' in Palestine and the rest of the region), others are completely devoted to a maximalist Zionist agenda - advocating for Zionist expansion, aggression, and total servitude to Israeli interests - no matter their maximalist goals. 

Among the latter is US Senator John Fetterman, a hawkish politician who once campaigned as a "progressive," but has now turned into the Israeli occupation's most darling Democratic cheerleader and an unofficial mouthpiece and apologist of the genocidal child-murdering regime.

Fetterman's unwavering support for Israel, which comes with belligerent calls for war against Iran, betrays the very principles he once claimed to champion. 

During the election cycle that put him into power, progressive groups had rallied around Fetterman as a “working man” that most Americans could relate to. They could not have been more wrong. 

Fetterman, often skulking the halls of the US Capitol in a hoodie and gym shorts, has become the poster child for the US political establishment's subservience to the Zionist project and its reckless drive toward regional hegemony in Western Asia. 

Fetterman has shown total support with each new act of Zionist terror, something his constituents are increasingly condemning.

His rhetoric, particularly his enthusiastic endorsement of Israel's military actions and his calls for US involvement in illegal and unprovoked strikes on Iran, is not only a betrayal of his constituents but a dangerous escalation that threatens to give more support to an increasingly belligerent Israeli occupation entity as it faces an existential crisis. 

He has draped himself in the Israeli flag on several occasions—literally and figuratively—while dismissing calls for a ceasefire and championing Israel's so-called "right to defend itself" against a besieged, starving population.

Perhaps as a hat-tip to his pro-Israeli donors, his office walls are covered with posters of Israeli captives held by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, further serving as a shrine to a one-sided narrative that erases the decades-long suffering of Palestinians under occupation. 

To compare, there are tens of thousands of Palestinian hostages in Zionist prisons, a sizeable amount of them being Palestinian youth. 

Speaking of donors, Fetterman has unapologetically collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Zionist lobby. Based on the data organized by Track AIPAC, Fetterman has received over $370,000 in donations from Israeli-associated PACs and donors, with one of his top donors being JStreetPAC, which donated $175k in 2024 alone.

Donations of this caliber suggest extreme levels of loyalty to furthering Israeli settler-colonial interests in the power corridors of Washington - from domestic policy fighting against Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) efforts to foreign policy warmongering on behalf of the American-Israeli axis of evil.

It also aligns with Fetterman's refusal to acknowledge the Palestinian death toll—over 150,000 by some estimates, including thousands of children—while fixating on Israeli victims reveals a moral bankruptcy that aligns him with the most hawkish elements of the US political spectrum.

Fetterman ghoulishly refuses to acknowledge the catastrophic loss of life, insisting that "now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire." 

Clearly, Fetterman's loyalty to the Zionist cause goes as far as deliberate endorsement of collective punishment of innocent Palestinians, including children and women, a policy that violates international law.

Of course, being in line with the Zionist occupation's expansionist interests, Fetterman's zeal for Israel does not stop at Gaza. He has cheered on for US military aggression against Iran, celebrating the bombings against Iran's peaceful nuclear program and threatening that Israel can continue to assassinate its nuclear scientists with his and other US politicians' approval.

In his March 2025 visit to the occupied territories, Fetterman told journalists in Jerusalem al-Quds that he supports "partnering with Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities," urging the US to "blow it up." 

His rhetoric continued to escalate, including in June 2025, when he called for Israel to assassinate the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Such statements are not the musings of a principled senator but the ravings of a warmonger eager to appease the Zionist war machine and its patrons in Washington.

Fetterman's rhetoric must be seen in the context of the broader US-Israel agenda to neutralize Iran as a regional power, especially as the latter secures critical economic alliances such as a place in BRICS and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization). 

For decades, the US and its Zionist ally have sought to undermine Iran's sovereignty, from crippling, high-pressure sanctions to covert sabotage operations and outright military threats. 

Fetterman's calls for illegal and unjustified strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, which Iran maintains are for peaceful energy purposes, echo the same discredited playbook used to justify the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombing of Libya, the destruction of Yugoslavia, etc.

The threat of a nuclear bomb armed Iran is a propaganda campaign orchestrated by Washington and Tel Aviv to justify aggression while ignoring Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, a violation of international norms, and a total means to destabilize the region. 

The hypocrisy of Fetterman's position declares the official US policy for the area: Israel's nuclear capabilities are strategic and protect American interests, but Iran's pursuit of energy independence is an intolerable existential threat.

Fetterman, in his blind allegiance to Israel, seems unperturbed by the realities of what the execution of this US-led policy would look like, choosing to ignore the total rupture of the region, plunging the US into a war it would not understand or be prepared for - Iran is not Iraq, Libya, or Afghanistan. 

It is a regional power with a sophisticated military and an alliance with resistance groups that would be eager to defend their ally against American aggression.

By endorsing Israel's strikes on Iran and advocating for US aggression, Fetterman is perpetuating a cycle of violence that benefits only the US ruling class and its Zionist beneficiaries. 

The US has spent trillions on wars in the West Asia region, leaving behind shattered societies that will take decades to redevelop. 

Fetterman's call to "take out" Iran's leadership and nuclear program is a recipe for more of the same- a reckless gamble with lives and resources that the US can ill afford, and would further plant the seeds of disdain for US policy both at home and abroad.

The American people, weary of endless wars and economic hardship, deserve a senator who prioritizes their interests over those of a foreign power tied to genocidal crimes and occupation. 

Fetterman's betrayal of his "progressive" voter base that elected him into power is not just a personal failing but a symptom of a deeper, more sinister alignment in US politics, where loyalty to Israel and the war machine comes before anything else, if anything else at all.

It is incumbent on the global community to reject the likes of Fetterman and their imperialist agendas, as there are war mongers like  Fetterman, or worse,  spread throughout different Western governments. 

While they are considering replacements, they can also add someone who knows how to dress themselves as a requirement. Indeed, the bar has never been lower.

Musa Iqbal is a US-based researcher and an editor at Vox Ummah.

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