Bay Area professors say public pressure, Iran strike complicate U.S. policy on Israel [Video]

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that he plans to put aid for Israel up for a vote, by separating the funding from other more controversial aid packages to Ukraine. 

The vote would come during a time of increasing public pressure on Congress and the White House. 

Large-scale protests were held across the nation Monday to send a coordinated message to Congress and the White House calling for more U.S. pressure on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop civilian casualties and increase humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza war.

“There is growing opposition to the Israeli war and not because people are anti-Israel, necessarily, although some of them indeed are, but because of the very high civilian death toll,” said Stephen Zunes, a University of San Francisco Professor of Politics and International Studies.

“A sizable majority of Americans, according to polls, believe that U.S. military aid to Israel should be …