The Senate on Tuesday tabled a measure sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would have frozen U.S. aid to Israel unless the Biden administration commissioned a report on alleged human rights abuses in Gaza.
The resolution, which was snuffed out in a 72-11 vote, marks a sharp rebuke of the progressives demanding conditions on U.S. aid following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. But it also put on display divisions within the Democratic Party amid an Israeli counteroffensive that has killed thousands in Gaza.
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