What does Rep. Scholten’s Christian faith have to say about her unconditional support for Israel killing over 40,000 Palestinians?

While people were preparing for the US Presidential debate on Tuesday night, several activists were busy putting up posters in the neighborhood where Rep. Hillary Scholten lives.

The posters they were putting up, were wanted posters, which specifically called out Rep. Scholten for her unconditional support for Israel, complicity in Israeli war crimes and the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinians.

GRIID has methodically documented the role that Rep. Scholten has played in Israel’s war crimes and the ongoing genocide, which you can read here.

It is instructive that ever since Hillary Scholten ran for the 3rd Congressional seat on Michigan, beginning in 2020, she has made her Christian faith a central part of her campaigns. In her current re-election campaign page, under the section “meet Hillary” it states:

My West Michigan roots, my family, and my Christian faith have shaped who I am, and inspired me to always think critically, and stand up for what’s right.

My question for Rep. Scholten is, how does your Christian faith makes sense of your unconditional support for Israel, for supporting the Biden Administration’s sending over 600 weapons shipments to Israel in the past 11 months, and the killing of between 40,000 and 186,000 Palestinians, most of which are women and children?

In a recent political ad, Rep. Scholten is seen with a happy, white middle class family, where she says she wants to work to provide more opportunities for middle class families to afford a home. (What about working class and poor families???) This pristine image is in sharp contrast to what Palestinian families are experiencing on a daily basis, in part because of Rep. Scholten’s continuous support for Israel’s genocidal campaign.

For example, what does Rep. Scholten’s Christian faith have to say about the killing of 18 Palestinians at a school in a safe zone? What does Rep. Scholten’s Christian faith have to say about the Israeli military’s killing of at least 8 Palestinians who were standing in a bread line at a United Nations-run school in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp? What does Rep. Scholten’s Christian faith have to say about the Israeli massacre of at least 40 Palestinians by bombing tents housing people displaced from other areas of Gaza in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis?  Rep. Scholten’s political ads don’t talk about what is happening to Palestinian families on a daily basis, like this image below of a wounded Palestinian child following an Israeli bombardment at al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip in June of this year. 

Now, I am well aware of the fact that the election is less than 2 months away, but elections should never prevent any of us from talking about what kind of policies that any candidate has endorsed or voted for. One major policy that Rep. Scholten has endorsed and voted for is the Israeli genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinians, an issue that I cannot be silent on, regardless of the outcome of the election.

For those who want to use the Rep. Hillary Scholten wanted poster, you can download it here.