New Mexico State Senator, Jack C. Block, attacked by his daughter for participating in “50 States, 1 Israel” and becoming an Israeli mouthpiece

Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico – a part of Senator Block’s constituency

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On social media, she commented “It seems like he has sold his soul to the devil.” She asked rhetorically, “How does meeting with Netanyahu help the local people of New Mexico … he clearly doesn’t have his constituents in mind”. She went on to ccused her dad of participating in “a propaganda trip” “with a bunch of his Republican buddies. She wondered if Israel l was paying him to “peddle propaganda”, noteing how Block was stating that “the genocide is a lie”, that “civilians aren’t being killed” and that “the IDF is doing everything they can to minimize casualties.” Summing up she noted, “He’s a Republican politician; that’s par for the course.

“Maddie Block, calling out her father, Jack C. Block, for his participation in “”50 States, 1 Israel”

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Maddie Block, daughter of a New Mexico legislator who recently went on a pro-Israeli junket to the Zionist state has come out to harshly criticize her father’s participation in the “50 States-1 Israel” bonanza which brought 250 U.S. legislators, many from state legislatures across the country, to Israel for a week of activities that included meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Binjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. Of those who participated approximately 220 were Republicans, 30 Democrats.

New Mexicans should join Maddie Block in calling her father, Jack C. Block, state senator from New Mexico’s Sandoval County west of Sante Fe, on the carpet for his participation in this public relations farce.

Block, who spent a good part of his career in the U.S. military, ran and lost in a Republican primary for New Mexico governor in 2022. In the classic conservative Republican traditon, Block supports Donald Trump, the Second Amendment, right-to-work laws; he favors life imprisonment or the death penalty for drug dealers, citing the fentanyl crisis. He also supports the oil and gas industry . He has described himself as an opponent of the “woke left” – the latest rightwing expression for reintroducing racism and discrimination in the country. Not surprisingly he also opposes abortion and transgender rights.

A portion of the statement that Block posted on X (Twitter) said:

The invasion by Hamas on October 7th was just one front of the coordinated attack on Israel. While Hamas attacked from the ground, Hezbollah and the Houthis attacked Israel from the air with rockets and drones,which are provided by the Iranian regime.Their determination to destroy Israel continues to this day. While we were in Israel, our delegation had to seek protective shelter 3 times in 5 days due to rockets launched towards us.

But, on returning from Israel, Block ran into strong criticism for his pro-Israeli stance from none other than his daughter, Maddie Block. On social media, she commented “It seems like he has sold his soul to the devil.” She asked rhetorically, “How does meeting with Netanyahu help the local people of New Mexico … he clearly doesn’t have his constituents in mind”. She went on to ccused her dad of participating in “a propaganda trip” “with a bunch of his Republican buddies. She wondered if Israel l was paying him to “peddle propaganda”, noteing how Block was stating that “the genocide is a lie”, that “civilians aren’t being killed” and that “the IDF is doing everything they can to minimize casualties.” Summing up she noted, “He’s a Republican politician; that’s par for the course.”

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In an effort to counter the growing – if not exploding – global opposition to Israel’s accelerated policies of genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, the United States and Israel has intensified its public relations offensive to try to stem the growing worldwide fury at U.S. and Israeli actions. The “50 States, 1 Israel” junket brought some 250 U.S. legislators, mostly, from what I can tell, from state legislatures, to Israel. The one week junket was touted in the Israeli and American Jewish press as “the largest-ever delegation of U.S. lawmakers to Israel”.

Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu used to occasion of the visit to blame Israel’s growing isolation on Iran, throwing China and Qatar into the same category. “These efforts (to erode ties between Israel and the U.S) are “orchestrated by the same forces that supported Iran,” he continued, accusing China and Qatar of spearheading attacks on the Jewish state’s very legitimacy in the United States and on social media. These state legislators were encouraged to pursue anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) legislation that are already in place in 38 states.

Whitewashing or even softening the impact the daily slaughter of Palestinians – familes blown to bits, women and children born to pieces, intensifying Israel’s starvation blockade that resembles the Nazi blockade of Leningrad more and more – this is becoming an increasingly hard sell even for the U.S. and Israeli media that adept at doing so. If the BDS movement is increasingly weighed down by legal shackles in the United States, abroad, the movement is having some successes – and a few of them very big ones:

• Norway’s $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund had recently divested from Caterpillar and from five Israeli banks over human rights violations in Gaza. Denmark’s smaller AkademikerPension will do likewise.
• Shipping giant, Maersk, annoucned that was divesting from comopanies linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank.

The “50 States, 1 Israel” visit comes at a time when Israeli ethnic cleansing ot the West Bank and its genocide (with U.S. weapons, funding and political support) continues to intensify; it comes when the Trump Administration has announced that it will ask Congress for an additional $6 billion in weapons to Israel, when over a 72 hour period recently, Israel bombed six countries (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen) and where everyday the world continues to watch Palestinian women and children in Gaza being blown to bits, hospitals and schools obliterated, targeted assassinations of Arab and Islamic state officials intensified, including those in the midst of negotiations with Israel, etc. etc.

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