The political battle lines over U.S. support for Israel have rarely been as sharply drawn as they are now, and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is standing right in the middle of the firestorm. Over the past week, Greene, a Republican congresswoman from Georgia known for her outspoken views, has found herself in a heated clash with both the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Fox News host Mark Levin, exposing deep rifts within the conservative movement over foreign policy, free speech, and the limits of dissent.
It all began on August 7, 2025, when Greene appeared on One America News (OAN) and launched a blistering attack on AIPAC. The influential pro-Israel lobbying group had earlier that day denounced Greene in a fundraising email, calling her comments about Israel’s actions in Gaza “disgusting.” Greene had described Israel’s military operation in Gaza as “genocide”—a term that has drawn condemnation from many U.S. political figures, but which is echoed by a number of advocates, academics, United Nations experts, and human rights groups, according to reporting by Punchbowl News and CNN.
“I’m absolutely furious, and as a matter of fact, AIPAC needs to register as a foreign lobbyist because they’re breaking U.S. laws by donating to members of Congress and by taking them on a fully funded trip to Israel,” Greene told OAN. She went on to specify, “Every single freshman member of Congress this year, they just took them over just recently and had them meet with the prime minister of Israel.” This trip, as reported by Punchbowl News, included House Democrats led by Maryland Representative Steny Hoyer and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California. While details of the meetings were not confirmed, the intent was clear: to reinforce U.S.-Israel ties at a time of mounting controversy.
Greene’s criticisms didn’t end there. She highlighted Israel’s relatively low national debt—“less than $400 billion”—and the country’s taxpayer-funded health care and college, contrasting these with the struggles faced by ordinary Americans. “They take them over to meet with the secular government of nuclear-armed Israel. Israel who is less than $400 billion in debt. Israel who has taxpayer-funded health care and college,” she said, drawing a sharp comparison between U.S. domestic policy and Israeli social programs.
Her comments came in the wake of a U.N.-backed international food security body’s report that the “worst-case famine scenario” was unfolding in Gaza. The report, cited by Vatican News, indicated that Israeli military restrictions had severely limited access to food, water, electricity, and medicine for Gaza’s population. Local health authorities reported at least 197 starvation deaths as of early August 2025. While the report stopped short of formally declaring a full-blown famine, the humanitarian stakes were clear and urgent.
On social media, Greene was even more direct. “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 wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Her willingness to call out both Hamas’s attack on Israel and the subsequent humanitarian crisis in Gaza set her apart from many in her party, who have typically offered near-unconditional support for Israel’s military actions.
AIPAC, for its part, was quick to respond. In its email, the group compared Greene to progressive Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar—two lawmakers frequently accused by conservatives of harboring anti-Israel or even antisemitic views. The comparison was clearly intended as an insult, but Greene was undeterred. “If AIPAC wants to come after me and accuse me of betraying my American values—AIPAC, you know what? You can bring it on. I am totally ready for this, and this is a fight that I will fight and I will give it my all, and I can guarantee you, you’re gonna lose because America is fed up,” she told OAN. “They’re fed up to here with funding foreign wars, funding foreign causes, funding foreign countries for foreign reasons that have nothing to do with Americans while Americans work their ass off every day and pay their taxes and come home and they’re living paycheck to paycheck and their credit cards are maxed out.”
Greene’s combative stance quickly drew the ire of Fox News host Mark Levin, a staunchly pro-Israel conservative commentator. On August 9, Levin took to X to deride Greene, calling her a “lunatic and Marxist-Islamist Jew-hater” and accusing her of “repeatedly stabbing the president in the back” and trashing conservatives. He also referred to her as a “complete embarrassment,” a “nasty hypocrite,” and a “phony.” In a particularly pointed exchange, when a commenter suggested “MTG 2028!!” Levin shot back, “Prison?”
Greene did not take the insults lying down. She fired back on X, writing, “Fox News host Mark Levin is a raging psychopath. He is attacking me, lying about me, and EVEN WORSE in comments in his own post calling Christian’s ‘bigots’ and says I should go to prison!!! All because I am UNAPOLOGETICALLY AMERICA FIRST and UNAPOLOGETICALLY FIGHTING FOR MY CHILDREN’S GENERATION!!!” She further alleged that the attacks from Levin and AIPAC intensified after she called for a recorded vote on her amendments to defund U.S. taxpayer money to Israel and other foreign aid. “Do you see the pattern? Fox News host Mark Levin, a once hateful NEVER TRUMPER, is 100% Israel FIRST and America LAST!!!” she wrote.
The feud escalated as Levin continued to insult Greene’s defenders online, using terms like “pigs” and “morons” and even making crude jokes. Meanwhile, Greene doubled down on her accusations against Israel and AIPAC, charging the Israeli government with “systematically cleansing” Palestinians from the land and advocating for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. According to Mediaite, Levin faced backlash for dismissing the widespread famine in Gaza, reportedly saying that Israelis shouldn’t “feed the enemy while you defeat the enemy.”
This public spat has exposed a fault line within the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement. On one side are those, like Levin and AIPAC, who argue that unwavering support for Israel is both a moral and strategic imperative for the United States. On the other are voices like Greene’s, who question the wisdom of foreign aid and military entanglements, especially when American families are struggling at home. The debate has taken on a personal and often vitriolic tone, with accusations of disloyalty, bigotry, and hypocrisy flying in all directions.
For now, neither side appears ready to back down. Greene has signaled that she’s willing to “burn this bridge to the ground and let the flames light the way,” while her critics remain equally adamant. As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens and the political stakes in Washington rise, the fight over U.S. policy toward Israel—and who gets to define what it means to be “America First”—is far from over.
