Trump's foreign policy picks are fiercely pro-Israel
Since the Israeli war on Gaza began in October 2023, New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has supported bills targeting pro-Palestinian student encampments that were erected this past spring in protest against the war, calling on their administrations to cut economic ties with Israel or companies they say support the war.
Stefanik increased her name recognition in December 2023 after aggressively going after several university presidents during a hearing on antisemitism, which focused on the pro-Palestinian protests taking place on US campuses. Those protests were labelled as antisemitic by some US lawmakers, including Stefanik, on the basis that they were critical of Israel. Though there are not as many as in the spring, protests are ongoing.
Stefanik repeatedly asserted during the hearings that the slogans "from the river to the sea" and "globalise the intifada" were tantamount to calls for genocide.