AIPAC appears to drop endorsement of GOP lawmaker who called for Gaza to ‘starve away’ until hostages freed

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29 July 2025, 6:32 am

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

FILE - Florida state Representative Randy Fine speaks in the House of Representatives, April 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

AIPAC appears to have dropped its endorsement of Republican Representative Randy Fine, days after the freshman US lawmaker tweeted, “Release the hostages. Until then, starve away.”

“(This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)” Fine added in the July 22 post.

US President Donald Trump rebuffed denials of starvation in Gaza, telling reporters on Monday, “You can’t fake that.”

AIPAC endorsed Fine ahead of his House race earlier this year, but his name was no longer coming up in the pro-Israel lobby’s database of endorsed candidates on Monday evening.

A spokesperson for AIPAC says the organization “will be endorsing candidates for the 2026 election throughout the cycle – current endorsees for 2026 so far are listed on the AIPAC-PAC website.”

Weighing in on the apparent development, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets, “A Jewish US Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful.”

“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” she adds, apparently becoming one of the first Republicans to publicly describe Israel’s war a “genocide.”

Fellow GOP lawmaker Lance Gooden meanwhile tweets, “Standing with Israel means eliminating every barbaric Hamas terrorist. It also means rejecting the killing and starvation of children in Gaza.”

“We must allow aid to enter Gaza. Ending this hunger crisis will not only spare the lives of children but will strip Hamas of its ability to use innocent children as pawns in their depraved acts of barbarism,” the Texas lawmaker adds.

Greene and Gooden appear to be among the first Republican Congress members to join the overwhelming number of Democrats in expressing their alarm about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.