Trump Admin to Deny Disaster Aid to States and Cities That Boycott Israel

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Aug. 04, 2025

The Trump administration is threatening to deny nearly $2 billion in disaster aid to US states and cities unless they sign a pledge affirming they will not boycott Israeli companies.

From Reuters, "US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance":

U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration has announced, tying routine federal funding to its political stance.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency stated in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its "terms and conditions." Those conditions require they certify they will not sever "commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies" to qualify for funding.

The requirement applies to at least $1.9 billion that states rely on to cover search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries and backup power systems among other expenses, according to 11 agency grant notices reviewed by Reuters.

The requirement is the Trump administration's latest effort to use federal funding to promote its views on Israel.

Trump's "MIGA" agenda also includes cutting off funding to "arguably the world's greatest mathematician" and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA because the university is supposedly "failing to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias."

The Trump Admin just defunded and dismantled one of the US's leading programs of pure and applied mathematics, and also defunded arguably the world's greatest mathematician as part of it.

And you'll never, ever guess the cause that led them to do this. Who needs math anyway?🇮🇱 https://t.co/6xaGHQmMk1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 4, 2025

"The Trump administration has been forcing Brown University and other colleges to eliminate DEI programs for most groups, while forcing them to adopt classic DEI programs for Jewish students," Glenn Greenwald noted in a report over the weekend.

The Trump administration has been forcing Brown University and other colleges to eliminate DEI programs for most groups, while forcing them to adopt classic DEI programs for Jewish students. @ggreenwald on Brown University's DEI programs for American Jews: pic.twitter.com/82O7CUI0fv
— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) August 2, 2025

To the same ends, the Trump administration has been taking up Title VI "anti-Semitism" complaints against universities like Yale and others brought by Jewish lawfare groups like the Anti-Defamation League and the Brandeis Center.

The Anti-Defamation League is thrilled with the Trump administration for taking up their Title VI "anti-Semitism" complaints against Yale University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Scripps College. https://t.co/y7bESeka7p
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) March 24, 2025

As we saw last week, Trump's DOJ even intervened after a college girl was filmed allegedly mildly "shoving" a Jewish student who was filming her at a gym at Florida State University.

Attorney General Pam Bondi (and Pres. Trump) said nothing about the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf but they're turning this Jewish student allegedly being shoved by a white college girl into an international incident.

Can't get any more obvious who the sovereign is in America. https://t.co/dj6NAaZHYj pic.twitter.com/xZZKCIhxoC
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) August 1, 2025

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