American singer-songwriter John Legend wants US Vice President Kamala Harris to make America’s aid to Israel conditional and use it as “leverage” as Israel continues its military operations in Gaza targeting Hamas terrorists in the Palestinian enclave, he said in an interview published on Wednesday.
In an interview with Mehdi Hasan for the podcast “Mehdi Unfiltered,” the singer of “All of Me” chastised Harris and the Democratic Party for their unwavering backing of Israel’s continuous military operations in the Gaza conflict. Hasan questioned the Grammy-winning artist on whether he believed that, given the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, Harris should take a different “policy” approach to US relations with Israel than the Biden administration did.
It really revolves around the idea of accountability and using our aid to Israel as leverage,” Legend replied. “I don’t think we should we writing blank checks to any country that we’re allied with and that any kind of assistance we provide, any kind of weapons we send, should come with conditions. I think that’s a very sensible way to conduct foreign policy. We do it just about everywhere else. So let’s do it there, too.”
