This is the defeated anti-Jewish Resolution with much maskirovka and a loud dog-whistle to the alt-right.
Resolution:
Opposing Foreign Influence, Foreign Aid, and Entangling Commitments
WHEREAS, the Libertarian Party holds that the government of the United States exists solely to secure the liberty, safety, and property of the American people, and has no authority to act as financier, guarantor, or enforcement arm for foreign states, foreign wars, or foreign pressure campaigns; and
WHEREAS, libertarians oppose all foreign aid, undeclared wars, entangling alliances, coercive sanctions, intelligence partnerships, and any political arrangements that convert foreign priorities into domestic American obligations; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution vests in Congress alone the power to declare war, and libertarians reject the bipartisan practice of presidential war-making on behalf of foreign interests, ideological projects, or permanent-security-state priorities; and
WHEREAS, foreign states and their domestic lobbies routinely bypass or exploit Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requirements to steer U.S. policy, creating a corrupt framework that binds American taxpayers, troops, and diplomacy to the interests of foreign governments; and
WHEREAS, the pro-Israel lobby represents the most visible and successful example of this pattern, with organizations such as AIPAC openly reporting more than $53 million in direct PAC support to 361 candidates in the 2024 cycle alone, successfully making the U.S.-Israel relationship the centerpiece of American Middle East policy, as documented by scholars John J.
Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt; and
WHEREAS, the same mechanisms of influence operate on behalf of numerous other foreign principals, including but not limited to Israel, France, Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and the member states of NATO, as well as through other multilateral arrangements; and
WHEREAS, the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment has entangled the United States in multiple simultaneous geopolitical flashpoints, including the Israel-Iran conflict, the Russia-Ukraine war, deepening commitments surrounding Taiwan and China, and the long-standing military standoff on the Korean peninsula, each carrying the grave risk of direct confrontation with nuclear-armed or near-peer adversaries at enormous cost in blood, treasure, debt, and the erosion of constitutional restraint; and
WHEREAS, the United States currently maintains hundreds of active Foreign Military Sales cases, many accompanied by implicit, multi-billion-dollar security commitments that further bind American policy to overseas conflicts; and
WHEREAS, these arrangements fundamentally violate the principle of strict political independence and a foreign policy of peace, commerce, and non-intervention;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee condemns the systematic redirection of American foreign policy by any foreign state or domestic lobby, and declares that no foreign government, whether Israel, Germany, Ukraine, Taiwan, France, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, the member states of NATO, or any other, has any rightful claim on the blood, treasure, debt capacity, political obedience, or military service of the American people; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee reaffirms and operationalizes the existing Libertarian Party Platform planks on personal liberty and foreign policy by calling for the immediate and complete end of all foreign aid, including military aid, economic aid, intelligence assistance, security assistance, loan guarantees, and subsidized arms transfers, to all foreign governments without exception; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls for the United States to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls upon the United States Department of Justice to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act equally and without exception against all agents representing foreign principals, including persons operating within domestic political organizations on behalf of foreign governments or foreign political parties; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls for legislation requiring full public disclosure of all foreign-government or foreign-principal funding to U.S. political campaigns, PACs, 501(c)(4) organizations, think tanks, congressional junkets, and influence operations, regardless of current FARA registration status; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee opposes all entangling alliances, mutual-defense commitments, undeclared security guarantees, forward war commitments, and open-ended obligations that risk dragging the American people into war with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, or any other foreign power; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls for the restoration of Congress’s exclusive constitutional authority to declare war, and rejects all unilateral or open-ended military action undertaken without clear congressional authorization; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee rejects the doctrine that America must serve as arsenal, paymaster, diplomatic shield, or military guarantor for the world, and instead reaffirms a foreign policy of peace, commerce, non-intervention, and strict political independence; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chair is directed to publish this resolution upon adoption.
Co-Sponsors: Bost, Vinson, Chadderdon, Nekhaila
I don’t think this resolution is inherently anti-Jewish or antisemitic, nor wholly isolationist as that part can be argued to align with the non-interventionist position advocated in the Party’s platform. There are quite a few issues though:
– The multiple actions it’s arguing for goes beyond the purpose of the resolution in opposing foreign government influence on U.S. policy;
– The fifth resolution on public disclosure of foreign funding to political campaigns and PACs takes no account on the ban on foreign nationals from donating to influence an election already in place (52 USC §30121);
– The cited research by Mearsheimer and Walt had been criticized by other researchers and scholars, such as Ben Fishman, Harvey Sicherman, and Noam Chomsky for its lack of support for its main argument regarding the pro-Israel lobby and its ignoring of contrary evidence and historical factors.
Those are the main issues, but they’re big enough that this needs to be more heavily revised and workshopped, in order to focus the resolution on its specific claim and to provide more stable arguments against lobbying of the U.S. government in connection with foreign policy. Whether such a condemnation of lobbying aligns with libertarian ideas is another debate to have, but can’t be had properly without proper setting of the stage.
Well, yes, that resolution endorses isolationism and anti-semitism … if words don’t mean things.
But words do mean things.
They are still voting on this, no? It was not defeated yet?
This is a second motion on the same topic. The first motion was defeated decisively, though I cannot find the Secretary’s report of the final vote.