When Israel’s parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of dropping any pretense that it wasn’t an apartheid state , some of the Jewish state’s most ardent American defenders couldn’t even be bothered to pay attention.

“I haven’t been following it closely,” said Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who’s made defending Israel a key part of his political career.

The response was one of a mixed bag among both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill interviewed by The Intercept, but Fetterman’s tone was the most strident in its lack of regard.

Despite its most powerful ally and arms dealer’s stated preference for a two-state solution, Israel’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a symbolic measure to annex the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

The nonbinding resolution, which was adva

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