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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been front and center in political controversies these past few days, so if you’re tuning in, get ready for a whirlwind of headlines and heated social media moments. Over the weekend, Greene broke sharply with her own party and called Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza a “genocide,” demanding the U.S. halt military aid and urging compassion for the “innocent people and children” caught in the conflict. She wrote a lengthy and emotional post on X, saying, “I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it.” Her stance set MAGA circles and fellow Republicans on edge, drawing instant pushback from far-right activist Laura Loomer, who accused Greene of “advocating for GAZANS to come to the US” which Loomer dismissed as “not America First.” Her remarks have triggered major fundraisers by pro-Israel lobbies and fired up heated debates within both the GOP and Democrats, with critics from the right accusing her of betraying conservative values and failing to back Israel, while progressives applaud her as a rare voice from the right willing to break rank according to The Independent and Arab News.
That wasn’t Greene’s only breakaway moment. Recently, she joined forces with Bernie Sanders to demand action on the famine in Gaza and lambasted the $18 billion U.S. military aid package sent to Israel since last October. Unherd reports that Greene is carving out an identity as a “MAGA iconoclast,” openly questioning the Republican status quo on U.S. foreign policy and putting her growing independence on display. In a revealing interview on The Megyn Kelly Show last week, Greene openly accused Israel of “incredible influence and control” over Congress, suggesting unprecedented foreign lobby power via the Israel Political Affairs Committee. She made a point of saying her views are about protecting U.S. interests, not anti-Israel sentiment, and declared herself “radically and unapologetically for America.”
Social media blows have continued. On Instagram, Greene reignited her public feud with Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett, trading barbs that pulled in thousands of likes and comments. Recent posts on Greene’s personal handle show her touting a phone call with Donald Trump where she claimed to have “led the fight” on an unspecified issue, yet little detail has trickled out about the call’s substance.
Fighting on new fronts, Greene also jumped into the geoengineering debate. In the wake of catastrophic floods in Texas, she called for a federal ban on weather modification, proposing the Clear Skies Act which would make cloud-seeding a felony—although observers from The Economist and CSLDF say its passage is unlikely and the science remains fiercely disputed.
None of these moves look like short-term headline grabs. Greene’s pivot on Israel and Palestine, her push against geoengineering, and her public independence from MAGA dogma suggest she’s reshaping her political brand, testing the limits of Trump’s influence over the Republican base and future election cycles.
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