Heath Howard Wants Israel to Be Left Twisting in the Wind

Heath Howard is running for Congress: “Gen Z New Hampshire Congressional Candidate Refuses to Acknowledge Israel’s ‘Right to Exist,’” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, May 12, 2026:

“It is essential that we immediately cease our involvement in these endless imperial wars and adopt non-interventionism as a general policy. Moreover, we must immediately end all military aid and weapons sales to both Israel and Saudi Arabia and impose a complete arms, technological, and cultural embargo on Israel,” Howard’s campaign website reads.

Are there any countries other than Israel that Heath Howard thinks should be subject to a “complete arms, technological and cultural embargo”? Apparently not. He wants to end weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, but what about that “technological and cultural embargo” that he wants placed on Israel? Why doesn’t he want such a wide-ranging embargo placed on Saudi Arabia as well? There are 193 countries in the world, yet Howard wants to place a complete embargo — weapons, technology, and culture — on just one of them, the tiny Jewish state of Israel. Not on Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Cuba, Venezuela, Libya, Algeria, or many other countries that are despotisms whose people have been raised up to despise Americans, either because we are capitalists or because we are non-Muslims. Why doesn’t Howard explain his strange singling out for such a total and crippling embargo just one country, a country so small that it can scarcely be discerned on a world map, a country that has had to fight four major wars for its very survival, a country that has always been America’s friend, and not only has it used ed many of our weapons on the battlefield, proving their worth, which has led other countries to hasten to buy them, but Israeli weapons scientists have made improvements as well to many of them, from tanks to fighter jets, that the Pentagon then has incorporated into its own arsenal.

There was no better way to spend May Day 2026 than jamming out to some sick local bands with our state’s unions and @snhdsa ✊🌹

I will always stand with the working class because I am working class. I will always stand with our unions because the teachers’ union was the reason… pic.twitter.com/L7nY2pePso

— Heath Howard for Congress (@HeathHowardNH) May 2, 2026

Heath Howard tells us he is against “any more imperial wars.” What is he talking about? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not “imperial wars.” The 9/11 attacks prompted the war in Afghanistan; Afghanistan was harboring al-Qaeda, and the desire to crush Al Qaeda and those who supported it, and prepare Afghanistan for democracy (a failed endeavor), prompted the attack on Afghanistan. In Iraq, the Americans hoped — again wrongly as it turned out — to do the same, that is, to turn the country into a democracy. Far from being “imperial” adventures, America spent a total of six trillion dollars on these naïve and ultimately vain exercises in nation-building.

“We must also work to restore and improve our relationship with China and work with them, not against them, to make technological, political, and societal progress — and above all, we must honor our commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations,” his website continues….

How does Heath Howard hope to support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Surely not by working with its chief violator, Communist China. And how would Howard have the 57 Muslim states adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, when they have determinedly refused to do so, and instead adopted, as an alternative, the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights that takes the Sharia as its guide, and is notably silent on the rights of women and of non-Muslims?

Howard, a 25-year-old left-wing candidate, may be reflective of a newer generation of Americans which are broadly skeptical of the US-Israel relationship. Recent polling suggests that overwhelming majorities of younger Americans disapprove of the Jewish state.

I don’t think Heath Howard is “broadly skeptical” of the US-Israel relationship. It’s not nearly so mild. Howard is so full of animus toward the Jewish state, so ready to speak of it in the same breath as he speaks about Hamas, and so eager to cut off all ties to Israel, imposing a complete complete arms, trade, and intelligence embargo on Israel. Such an embargo would lead inexorably to the destruction of the Jewish state, given that the Arab states, especially those in the Gulf, have available hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of advanced American arms, and in Heath Howard’s view, they would continue to receive such arms, while an embargo on all such arms to Israel would be imposed. It’s clear that Heath Howard wants Israel to be left twisting in the wind, its critically important American friend having abandoned it. Israel would no longer able to replenish its supply of American weapons, and therefore, its armed-to-the-teeth enemies would be sure to destroy it. Such a result would cheer up, I have no doubt, that dour and dimwitted novahantonian, Heath Howard.