Who Is Josh Gottenheimer?

Gottenheimer is good friends with Bibi Netanyahu; and like Netanyahu and a majority of Israelis, Gottenheimer fights for Israel's national goal they call GREATER ISRAEL.

What is "Greater Israel?"

It's the Zionist belief that Israelis are entitled to ownership of all the land from the river to the sea; from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea.

Benjamin Netanyahu invented the phrase "from the river to the sea" and used it as the original Likud Party motto.

Netanyahu refers to "Amalek" meaning he believes Israelis have a God given right to kill indigenous men, women, children and take their homes and land for themselves. See, Who Is Benjamn Netanyahu?

Josh Gottenheimer knows EXACTLY what Netanyahu and Israelis are up to and yet Gottenheimer gives Israel American tax dollars, American bombs, bullets and billions that Israel uses to commit massive war crimes night and day for years upon years.

Josh Gottenheimer doesn't care that he and other AIPAC-funded Democrats violate federal law each and every time he provides U.S. weapons to Israel.

Josh Gottenheimer knows that Netanyahu and many Israeli officials openly talk about killing children to prevent them from growing up to be a terrorist.

Netanyahu and Gottenheimer define a Palestinian terrorist as any Palestinian willing to fight for freedom US-backed Israeli occupation and land theft;

Gottenheimer doesn't care that international law provides that any civilian population has a legal right to form and maintain armed resistance groups.

Gottenheimer hates Iran because Gottenheimer doesn't want ANYONE helping Palestinians gain their independence and freedom from US-backed Israeli terror.

Gottenheimer and AIPAC-funded Democrats and Republicans violate federal law each and every time they accept political campaign contributions from unregistered foreign lobby groups.

Gottheimer considers himself to be a centrist Democrat; describing himself as "socially liberal, fiscally conservative, and passionately centrist" in favor of compromise guided by his Jewish values.

During President Trump's first term, Gottheimer voted in line with Trump more often than any other Democrat in Congress.

In 2019, Gottheimer stated his opposition to the legalization of recreational marijuana.

In 2019 Gottheimer opposed single-payer healthcare in favor of FOR-PROFIT healthcare.

During the 2022 railroad worker labor dispute, Gottheimer, along with 79 House Republicans voted for a measure that forced rail companies and their unions to abandon collective bargaining and enter a forced agreement that lacked paid sick leave. The deal had been rejected by several rail unions because it lacked paid sick leave.

In February 2022, Gottheimer drafted legislation to define digital currencies as stablecoins if they could be backed one-for-one by U.S. dollars.

In July 2023, Gottheimer voted to advance a Republican-led bill that would establish regulations for stablecoins by authorizing the SEC to oversee digital assets while also installing new restrictions on the SEC.

Gottheimer and five other Democratic committee members approved the bill, bucking Democratic chairwoman Maxine Waters who argued it had loopholes and was "a wish list of Big Crypto."

Congressional stock trading - Josh Gottenheimer the insider trader

Gottheimer has been criticized for inappropriately handling stock trades during his time as a congressman.

In August 2022, filings revealed that Gottheimer failed to report an exchange of stocks in his portfolio within the mandated 45-day period; in September 2022, analysis indicated that Gottheimer made, "...trades involving 326 companies and 43 potential conflicts of interest," over a three-year period; and in April 2023, it was shown that Gottheimer sold shares in impacted companies before and during the 2023 banking crisis.

His team has stated, "Prior to taking office, Josh turned over management of his portfolio to a third party and only receives statements of prior transactions."

In February 2022, Gottheimer pledged to establish a blind trust to manage his assets; however, as of August 2022, he had yet to create one, and as of June 2024, the electronic statement that was cited to substantiate this pledge had been removed from Gottheimer's House website.

Gottenheimer is a member of THE PROBLEM SOLVERS CAUSES and the NO LABELS organization.

Foreign policy

China

In June 2021, Gottheimer co-sponsored a resolution led by Rep. Mike Gallagher which condemned the Chinese Communist Party for human rights violations.

The resolution cited instances such as the annexation of Tibet and the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, concluding that the group "looks forward to the day that the CCP no longer exists."

In September 2021, Gottheimer and Rep. Claudia Tenney led a bipartisan group of congresspeople in writing a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, warning that the Chinese-Iranian alliance was antithetical to American national security interests.

In particular, they noted that China disregarded international sanctions on Iran by importing Iranian oil and, according to the group, "bolstered" Iran's ballistic missile program while "complicating" efforts to keep at bay its nuclear program.

Gottheimer has criticized TikTok and supported banning the platform should it remain under ownership by a Chinese corporation.

In March 2023, Gottheimer argued that TikTok posed a national security threat, alleging that TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, provided data from its users to the Chinese Communist Party.

After Rep. Jamaal Bowman publicly opposed a potential TikTok ban, Gottheimer remarked that, "Anyone defending TikTok is either too caught up in being a social media celebrity or they've been brainwashed by the Chinese government's propaganda."

In November 2023, shortly after the start of the Gaza war, Gottheimer and Rep. Don Bacon, joined by ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt, announced the Stop Hate Act, which aimed to require social media companies to address individuals using their platforms for terroristic purposes; Gottheimer said that, "China is pro-Hamas, so it only makes sense for them to push anti-Israel, anti-American content on TikTok" aimed at young people.

At the same time, Gottheimer called on the Department of Justice to register TikTok as a foreign agent.

Later in November 2023, Gottheimer criticized a trend of TikTok videos "sympathizing" with Osama bin Laden and his reasoning behind orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, arguing again that it was Chinese propaganda, and therefore, "TikTok must be banned or sold to an American company."

In February 2024, Gottheimer joined Rep. Dan Crenshaw in sending a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo requesting that the Department of Commerce add ByteDance to its export control list.

In March 2024, Gottheimer was an original sponsor of (and voted for) a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States unless it was sold to a company that does not operate in a foreign adversary country.

Gottheimer led a letter co-signed by fiver other House Democrats asking Trump to comply with the TikTok divest-or-ban law and not grant further extensions to it, in June 2025.

Throughout late 2023 and 2024, Gottheimer supported Republican-led, Democrat-led, and bipartisan bills calling for aid to Taiwan and other Indo-Pacific allies in defense against China and its influence, especially in the South China Sea.

This aid, however, was always tied to military aid for Israel in its Gaza war and/or Ukraine for its defense against Russia; in November 2023, Gottheimer supported a bill funding only Israel at the expense of waiting for the opportunity to support all three causes together.

Iran

Gottheimer opposed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (saying he would have voted against it had he been in Congress at the time) and approved of President Trump exiting the agreement in 2018.

One of Gottheimer's primary concerns with the deal was that, "...it didn't address the elephant in the room, which is [Iran's] support for terror."

In January 2020, in the wake of the Trump administration having ordered a drone strike to assassinate Qasem Soleimani, Gottheimer said that the Iranian general had "imminent plans to attack Americans" making it necessary to "act deliberately to contain the threat posed by Iran"; Gottheimer later reiterated that "I know what I believe: We killed a terrorist," and "we were responding to years of action by Iran."

At the same time, Gottheimer expressed his support for President Trump intensifying economic sanctions against Iran.

Later in the month, Gottheimer was one of eight House Democrats to vote against a war powers resolution that, in reaction to the assassination, emphasized the president's responsibility to consult Congress before engaging in military hostilities.

Throughout 2022, Gottheimer opposed the Biden administration as it attempted to reenter a nuclear agreement with Iran.

In March, when the measure was brought up in diplomatic talks, Gottheimer said it would "make zero sense" to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the State Department's list of designated foreign terrorist organizations, arguing it would further enable Iran to fund terrorism through its proxies.

In April, Gottheimer led a group of 18 House Democrats expressing concerns about delisting the IRGC and protesting Russia's involvement as a mediator in the negotiations.

In August, Gottheimer led a group of lawmakers in denouncing a proposal that would reflect the 2015 deal, arguing that "Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terror...can't be trusted," and that, under such a framework, Iran would be "strengthened with an estimated one trillion dollars in sanctions relief over a decade".

In October 2023, following the outbreak of the Gaza war, Gottheimer led a group of lawmakers in demanding that Iran “be held fully accountable for its continued role in funding Hamas and Islamic terror,” and urging "the administration to take all necessary steps to cut off Iranian funding sources."

In February 2026, as President Trump amassed U.S. military forces around Iran, Gottheimer was the first Democrat to oppose an Iran war powers resolution introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie; Gottheimer and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler announced they opposed any resolution that would require congressional approval for a military strike against the country, saying it "would restrict the flexibility needed to respond to real and evolving threats and risks signaling weakness at a dangerous moment."

On February 28, Gottheimer celebrated the U.S. and Israel having launched joint airstrikes against Iran, writing "the United States, with our key democratic ally Israel, took decisive action to defend our national security, fight terror, protect our allies, and stand with the Iranian people."

Israel

Rep. Josh Gottheimer alongside House Dem. Leader Hakeem Jeffries on an April 2023 congressional delegation to Israel

Gottheimer has said that, "Our relationship with Israel is a vital relationship" and "Israel [is] our most vital ally in the Middle East."

Gottheimer has stated that the security of the United States and of Israel are so intertwined as to be inseparable.

Gottheimer has opposed conditions on aid to Israel, stating, "I’ve worked personally against and successfully killed attempts to condition aid [to Israel]...I'll continue to work to kill conditions on aid [to the sole] democracy in the region and a critical ally."

In February 2017, Gottheimer stated that the United States embassy in Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but that the move "should be left up to conversations between [Israeli and Palestinian] governments."

In March 2023, Gottheimer reaffirmed his pledge to "support Israel's security, grow the Abraham Accords, support a two-state solution and counter threats to Israel and the U.S."

At the same time, Gottheimer urged members of Congress to refrain from voicing their concerns over proposed judicial reforms in Israel.

In April 2023, Gottheimer made two official trips to Israel within one week—once as a part of a 12-member delegation of House Democrats, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and once as one of five Democrats to join Speaker Kevin McCarthy on a bipartisan visit.

During the same month, Gottheimer co-sponsored legislation reaffirming the House's support for military aid to Israel.

In May 2023, Gottheimer and Rep. Mike Lawler introduced legislation expanding anti-boycott laws to include blocking boycotts organized by international governmental organizations, with the intended effect of stopping the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in the United States.

The legislation would prohibit American citizens and companies from supporting boycotts imposed by global entities (IGOs) against U.S. allies including Israel.

The bill faced heavy criticism from House Republicans and conservatives who said it would violate Americans' First Amendment rights; House Republican leadership scrapped a vote on the bill in May 2025.

Gaza war (2023–present)

Gottheimer and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz lead a vigil on the steps of the U.S. Capitol following the October 7 attack on Israel

Following the October 7 attacks and the outbreak of the Gaza war, Gottheimer condemned Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush's criticism of Israel, stating, "It sickens me that while Israelis clean the blood of their family members shot in their homes...[Bush and Tlaib] believe Congress should strip U.S. funding...and allow innocent civilians to suffer."

On November 7, 2023, Gottheimer voted to censure Tlaib for "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack" and her use of the slogan "from the river to the sea."

On October 10, 2023, Gottheimer sponsored the "Operation Swords of Iron" Iron Dome Appropriations Act.

On October 16, 2023, Gottheimer (along with Reps. Don Bacon, Jared Moskowitz, and Claudia Tenney) led a group of 63 Democrats and 50 Republicans in drafting a letter to President Biden, in which they, "...ask[ed] him to boost Israel's security, hold Iran accountable for its role in funding Hamas...and put pressure on nations who support Hamas, including Qatar and Türkiye...[as well as] thanked the President for his unwavering support for the State of Israel [and] reaffirmed their commitment to increasing American security assistance".

On October 25, 2023, Gottheimer voted for a House resolution declaring solidarity with Israel and condemning Hamas.

After the vote, Gottheimer criticized 15 colleagues including Rep. Andre Carson who voted in the minority, describing them as "despicable" and unrepresentative of the party; Carson responded by calling Gottheimer "cowardly" and "not acting in the role as a member of Congress."

CNN described the Gottheimer–Carson scuttle as a microcosm of the broader divisions within the Democratic Party over Israel.

On November 2, 2023, Gottheimer was one of 12 House Democrats to vote for a $14.3 billion aid package to Israel that was funded by cutting the IRS' budget.

Though Gottheimer disapproved of reducing funds for countering tax fraud, he viewed passing the aid and displaying support for Israel as paramount.

On the same night, the House passed the Hamas International Financing Prevention Act (which Gottheimer cosponsored in January) that "would require the president to [report] on foreign entities that...assist Hamas or PIJ and...[to sanction] those entities, including [by] suspending U.S. assistance, seizing property...and denying exports."

On November 18, 2023, Gottheimer denounced Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal that the U.S. condition military assistance to Israel on "a fundamental change in [Israel's] military and political positions," saying that, "Conditioning aid to Israel will...help Hamas in their goal of completely annihilating Israel and the Jewish people," therefore, "Any legislation that conditions security aid to our key democratic ally, Israel, is a nonstarter and will lose scores of votes."

Gottheimer meets with PM Netanyahu on a House Intelligence Committee trip to Israel, Dec. 2023

In December 2023, Gottheimer led an official House Intelligence Committee trip to Israel, during which he and other congresspeople met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the director of Mossad, and other Israeli officials regarding the Gaza war.

According to a statement by Gottheimer and his remarks at a virtual press conference, these meetings included discussions over Qatar's role as a negotiator, Houthi attacks on commercial vessels, sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks, the importance of avoiding civilian casualties, planning for Gaza's future after the war, and a deradicalization campaign in Palestine.

In January 2024, following Israel's claim that UNRWA officials contributed to Hamas' October 7 attack, the U.S. State Department suspended future 2024 payments to the agency.

After the incident, Gottheimer argued that UNRWA is "flawed to the core" due to "systemic issues," saying the U.S. was justified in pulling funding because "it's time for UNRWA to disappear."

Gottheimer went on to, in April 2024, rally congresspeople to include a ban on supporting UNWRA's Gaza efforts in legislation funding the State Department through 2025; the letter Gottheimer circulated amongst colleagues also proposed ending U.S. support for any international organization whose conduct constitutes antisemitism under a controversial definition crafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Association.

In May 2024, Gottheimer and Rep. Brian Mast introduced legislation aimed to recover the $121 million sent to UNWRA just prior to US funding being suspended.

On March 26, 2024, Gottheimer joined Sen. John Fetterman to denounce the Biden Administration's decision to, by abstaining, allow a U.N. Security Council resolution that, "demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a permanent sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages," to pass.

Gottheimer later expounded that he believed the resolution was indicative of how, "The international community has long unfairly scrutinized and ostracized Israel at the U.N.," before adding, "Israel has the right to defend herself from existential threats."

On April 5, 2024, Gottheimer returned from a trip to the Middle East where he met with Egyptian and Qatari officials who were negotiating the Gaza war.

He reported being "hopeful that a temporary pause is within reach," urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to "empower" his negotiators to allow increased humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.

He also decried news that Hamas had rejected certain "nonstarters" such as "full Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza, a permanent cease-fire, the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and...the release of an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails."

On April 14, 2024, following Iran having launched airstrikes against Israel, Gottheimer and Rep. Joe Wilson led a bipartisan group of 89 House members in writing to Speaker Mike Johnson, urging him to immediately bring the Senate-passed Supplemental Aid package (which included military funds for Israel) to the floor for a vote.

The group argued, "This weekend, the Iranian regime [having] launched hundreds of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles directly against our key, democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel," means that, "Time is of the essence, and we must ensure critical aid is delivered to Israel and our other democratic allies facing threats from our adversaries around the world."

On May 10, 2024, Gottheimer led a group of 26 House Democrats in writing to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to criticize the Biden administration having "paused transfers of ammunition and 500-pound and 2000-pound bombs" in opposition to Israel's invasion of Rafah.

Later, on May 16, Gottheimer was one of 16 House Democrats to join Republicans in passing the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, which would compel the Biden administration to reverse the pause by partially defunding the State Department, Defense Department, and Executive Office of the President unless the cancelled weapons shipments were resumed.

On May 30, 2024, Gottheimer led a group of 19 House Democrats in writing to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in support of sanctioning ICC officials, specifically mentioning Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan.

The letter was in response to the Biden administration declining to impose sanctions against the ICC after it applied for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes. The letter argued for sanctions due to signatories' belief that, "The charges against Israeli leaders are baseless [and] reflect the ICC's well-documented historical bias against Israel."

In June 2024, Gottheimer spoke out against the Maldives having announced plans to ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country—the nation's response to Israel's role in the ongoing Gaza conflict.

Gottheimer called the ban "a blatant act of Jew hatred" and said "They shouldn't get a cent of American dollars until they reverse course," prompting him to develop legislation called the Protecting Allied Travel Here (PATH) Act that would condition U.S. aid to the Maldives on allowing Israeli passport holders into the country.

On July 3, 2024, Gottheimer met with Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and Tzachi Hanegbi, the director of Israel's national security council, at the Israeli prime minister's office in Jerusalem.

After the meeting, Netanyahu thanked Gottheimer "for his consistent support of Israel, as well as for the American support for Israel since the start of the war."

In June 2024, Gottheimer, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, and three Republicans introduced an amendment to the State Department's funding bill barring the Biden administration from citing Gaza Health Ministry death tolls.

The House passed it 269–144, with support from 62 Democrats and all but two Republicans. The Gaza Health Ministry, long cited by U.S., Israeli officials, and media, is the only official source for death data in Gaza.

Syria

Gottheimer said that he thought President Donald Trump acted appropriately in striking Syria in response to the 2018 use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.

"There's room the president has to deal with a crisis, and I believed, if you looked at the heinous crimes and atrocities committed, poisoning your own children, that demanded a response, and I'm glad he responded."

Ukraine

Gottheimer and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick introduced House legislation to support Sen. Joe Manchin's initiative to close American ports to Russian oil, natural gas, and coal products.

In October 2023, Gottheimer backed Sen. Lindsey Graham's bill to simultaneously fund Ukraine military assistance (which had, after debate, previously been excluded from the September 2023 continuing resolution to fund the US government) and increased domestic border security.

When speaking on the bill, Gottheimer claimed it was necessary to "support Ukraine to make sure we stand up to Putin and to China and Iran, which is critical to our national security and to our allies."

Lawmakers were not able to pass Graham's package (or any other Ukraine/border funding bill) before Congress ended its session in December 2023.

In February 2024, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick introduced the Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act, which had three Republican and three Democratic co-sponsors from the Problem Solvers Caucus.

The bill included $47.7 billion in aid to Ukraine, $10.4 billion for Israel, and $4.9 billion for allies in the Indo-Pacific in an effort to combat China. Gottheimer, at first, did not support Fitzpatrick's bill, but later co-sponsored it after introducing a humanitarian aid package.

Venezuela

In January 2026, after President Trump ordered the U.S. military to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Gottheimer commended the operation and said that Maduro "undermined democracy" and "enabled the flow of drugs to America."

Electoral politics

In June 2021, Gottheimer joined Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Terri Sewell to launch the Team Blue PAC, which aimed to defend incumbent Democrats against primary challenges.

In February 2022, Team Blue's first slate of endorsements backed moderate incumbents against progressive challengers.

Left-wing groups like Justice Democrats claimed the PAC's intentions were to quash progressivism in "deep-blue" districts, while Gottheimer said, "We want to support common-sense members who are delivering for their districts."

In September 2023, Gottheimer defended New Jersey's county line system, under which candidates supported by county-level party organizations had their names advantageously placed on primary ballots in that county.

Gottheimer said, "It gives rank and file Democrats at the local level a strong voice in selecting their best candidates."

In June 2024, after a judge ordered that the Democratic Party could not use county line ballots for New Jersey's 2024 primaries (and as the system faced further judication), Gottheimer conceded, "I'm going to respect where it comes out in the courts."

In June 2024, Gottheimer was the first Democratic congressperson to endorse incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman's opponent, George Latimer, in the hotly-contested Democratic primary that was defined in large part by Bowman's criticism of Israel during the Gaza war.

Gottheimer was one of eight Democrats to vote against a resolution that would curtail Trump's war powers following the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020.

When asked during a 2020 primary election forum in what ways he supported Trump, Gottheimer answered that, "He's good on the relationship with U.S.-Israel. Although I don't agree with everything that...Netanyahu does or says, I think it's a very important relationship to the United States."

Antisemitism

Gottheimer has confronted fellow Democratic representatives over their comments and stances that he has considered antisemitic:

In March 2019, Gottheimer was involved in drafting a House resolution to condemn the "myth of dual loyalty" after Ilhan Omar had accused certain supporters of Israel of having "allegiance to a foreign country";

in February 2023, Gottheimer "convinced" Omar to sign a resolution (which he authored) that condemned antisemitism before she was removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee due to her past comments pertaining to Israel;

and in July 2023, Gottheimer co-wrote a statement denouncing as "unacceptable" Pramila Jayapal having remarked that Israel is a "racist state"'

In January 2020, Gottheimer spoke out against a "massive wave of anti-Semitism on college campuses" as well as touted his efforts to fund the Nonprofit Security Grant Program and secure related grants for New Jersey religious institutions.

In May 2024, Gottheimer announced he had helped secure $4.8 million in federal grants to "invest in physical protections, training and security technology" for 34 "synagogues, mosques, churches, religious schools and community centers" across his district.

In September 2023, Gottheimer called on the University of Pennsylvania to disinvite Roger Waters and Marc Lamont Hill as speakers at the school's Palestine Writes Literature Festival.

Due to accusations of antisemitism and Waters' criticisms of Israel, Gottheimer claimed the musician would be given, "a bully pulpit" and that, "antisemitism and anti-Israel advocates [would be] given a platform to spew hate."

In the same letter, Gottheimer asked for Princeton University to reconsider its use of Jasbir Puar's text The Right to Maim in classes on decolonial studies, calling the text "offensive, antisemitic blood libel [...] containing antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel sentiment."

Both universities responded by denying Gottheimer's requests and citing academic freedom: Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton's president, stated, "all students can thrive here, but not by censoring our curriculum," while M. Elizabeth Magill, Penn's president, said, "[we] fiercely support [...] the expression of views that are controversial and even those that are incompatible with our institutional values."

On December 4, 2023, Gottheimer wrote to the president of Rutgers University, asking that the school cancel a seminar with Noura Erakat, Nick Estes, and Marc Lamont Hill, advertised as being about the interrelation of the Gaza war with settler colonialism and anti-Blackness, due to the congressman's belief that Estes and Lamont Hill were "well-known antisemites" and the seminar would "promote hate speech and exacerbate the potential for violence and attacks toward Rutgers’ Jewish students."

Rutgers declined to cancel the event citing academic freedom.

Media connected Gottheimer's back-and-forth with Rutgers to the broader developments on college campuses following the October 7 attacks.

After the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology were interrogated at the December 5, 2023 United States Congress hearing on antisemitism, Gottheimer called for the aforementioned university presidents to resign over the statements they made, saying that "when directly asked [...] if calling for genocide of Jews violated their school's code of conduct [...the presidents] couldn't deliver a simple yes or no answer."

Also in December 2023, Gottheimer was one of 95 Democrats to vote for a resolution that "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism."

In January 2024, Gottheimer condemned the Teaneck school district for partnering with a local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (who it enlisted alongside the Anti-Defamation League and Facing History & Ourselves) as part of its "Togetherness and Belonging" program.

Gottheimer called it "outrageous and unacceptable", taking umbrage at previous remarks by CAIR's national director Nihad Awad about the Gaza war.

A spokesperson for CAIR-NJ responded that "We have consistently made clear that our critique is of Israel as a nation state and not of Jews."

In February 2024, Teaneck High School students organized a march and protest to support a ceasefire in Gaza, which Gottheimer condemned as, "...an antisemitic, anti-Israel protest during school hours."

In February 2024, a sticker with the design of the Palestinian flag reading that read "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" was found affixed to a poster featuring a since-freed hostage from Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, which was displayed outside Gottheimer's Capitol Hill office.

Gottheimer described the incident as, "nothing less than a blatant act of antisemitism and hate," and said, "I refuse to be silent in the face of this horrific behavior, which only serves to perpetuate and amplify the skyrocketing levels of antisemitism across our nation."

In March 2024, Gottheimer reported a second, similar instance concerning a poster outside his office; he called the incident "truly deprived and heinous."

US Reps. tour Columbia University in light of anti-Israel encampments

In April 2024, Gottheimer and fellow Jewish lawmakers Reps. Dan Goldman, Jared Moskowitz, and Kathy Manning visited Columbia University and held a press conference at the school's Center for Jewish Life.

The visit came on the sixth day of heightened pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia, following, the week before, Columbia's president and other administrators having testified before congress regarding increased antisemitism on campus.

At the press conference, the lawmakers condemned the demonstrations as antisemitic and dangerous, with Gottheimer reaffirming that "We will do everything in our power to keep you safe and do everything in Washington [D.C.] we can to make sure that you feel welcome at this university," before warning that, "Columbia University, if they don't follow through, will pay the price."

Later that month, Gottheimer and Rep. Dan Goldman led a group of 21 House Democrats in writing to Columbia's board of trustees, expressing disappointment that Columbia University had not yet disbanded the encampment, exhorting unwilling trustees to resign, and arguing that the encampments constituted "an apparent violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act."

In May 2024, following similar encampments at Rutgers University having disbanded upon the administration conceding to eight of the protester's ten demands, Gottheimer and Rep. Donald Norcross sent a letter to Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway, claiming Rutgers "appeased the demands of violent and hateful agitators."

In May 2024, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which Gottheimer co-authored, passed 320-91 in the House.

The bill, in response to pro-Palestine protests at American universities, would stipulate that the Education Department use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism when applying federal anti-discrimination laws, such as during Title VI proceedings:

the bill would lower the threshold for student civil rights complaints alleging antisemitism and threaten with civil rights enforcement universities that do not protect students according to the new standards.

Speaking on the House floor before the vote, Gottheimer linked the bill to protests at Columbia University and claimed, "This bill is a critical step we can take to stand against hate."

The next day, responding to criticisms that the bill would infringe upon free speech rights, Gottheimer said: "You should, of course, protect free speech in this great country...[but] harassing and intimidating and discrimination...[and] Hate shouldn't be allowed on our college campuses."

House Democrat Josh Gottenheimer (New Jersey)

Who is Josh Gottenheimer?

Gottenheimer is a New Jersey Congressman (NJ-5), a House Democrat who sits on key committees and votes to fund and arm Israel.

When he's not siphoning U.S. tax dollars for Israel, he's busy with his side hustles; like his drone bill he went to great lengths to pass in the U.S. Senate.

Rep. Gottenheimer presented his drone bill as necessary for the security of American families; he even called it the "Bipartisan Drone Act to Protect American Communities & Families" - a bill that happened to contain legislative authorization to allow local and state law enforcement to intercept drones using Gottenheimer-related security software.

Gottenheimer couldn't get enough Senators to support his bill and he became frustrated.

Frustrated enough to pick up the phone and call his buddies (U.S. Navy contractors) and ask them a little favor.

For weeks and weeks "mystery drones" were flying all over New Jersey in particular; and along the East Coast.

Gottenheimer spoke of the possible threat from these mystery drones.

The media and Americans speculated they were UFOs or Chinese drones.

Little did they know.......

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