I saw the arrogance in the eyes of those settlers, 21- and 22-year-olds with guns, laughing that they had detained us, the arrogance of those young IDF soldiers that my tax dollars are funding – having no respect for the fact that they were detaining Americans, no respect that there was an American congressperson in that bus, and laughing when our translator told them that there are Americans there and the American embassy is concerned.
Reflecting on the behavior of settlers and IDF soldiers during his detention.
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What our letter does is it says that we need more of these companies that are using forced Uyghur labor to be designated by the Department of Homeland Security.
This is a human rights violation, but the broader problem also for Americans is that they're making steel, they're making aluminum, they're making textiles, and then they're dumping it into the U.S. market.
This is about fair trade and human rights. Americans aren't concerned about fair competition.
Most Americans believe in trade, but they want fair trade and they don't want to be competing with slave labor.
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