CPAC (Conservative Political Action Coalition) proudly joined with more than 200,000 attendees on the National Mall in our nation’s capital for the largest rally of Jewish people and those who support Israel in modern history. Since our founding in 1964, CPAC, the nation’s original conservative grassroots organization, has always been a proud supporter of Israel.

On October 7, 2023, the world witnessed to the most significant assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. On a beautiful Shabbat morning, Hamas terrorists crossed the Israel/Gaza border and murdered families in their beds, raped and beheaded young people at a music festival, and took hostage over 230 people including nine Americans. Israel has the right and the responsibility to protect it citizens. There will be peace only when Hamas has been completely eliminated and a new peaceful government has replaced the terrorist group Hamas.

Since the attack, American college campuses infected by grievance politics, cultural Marxism, and the cult of D.E.I. have propagated antisemitic tropes and called for the destruction of the Zionist state. Furthermore, major American cities, including Washington, D.C., Detroit, New York City, and Austin, Texas, have seen extremists chanting "from the river to the sea," defacing monuments, flaunting Nazi regalia, and tragically, perpetrating violence against Jewish Americans.

Now is not the time to retreat from Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East. Judeo- Christian values are under attack, and the response of leading global institutions is revealing. We categorically reject the United Nations' misguided resolutions and remain opposed to major news organizations choosing to amplify Hamas’ propaganda.

We, the Board of Directors of CPAC and the CPAC Foundation, stand in unyielding solidarity with Israel.