 On May 24, 2007, Johnson voted to cut funding for the Iraq War unless provisions included binding requirements upon the Iraqi government and provisions were additionally made for the redeployment of American armed forces from Iraq.Hank Johnson has been a critic of Israel's occupation policies, and has not altered his stance despite criticism.On July 25, 2016, in a speech in Philadelphia, before the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Johnson stated that the Israel occupation of the West Bank had created highways to which Palestinians are denied access, and which cut off Palestinian neighborhoods from each other; that walls and Israeli checkpoints restrict Palestinian freedom of movement; that Jewish people take homes when Palestinian residents miss spending a night there, and fly an Israeli flag, while Palestinians are not permitted to fly their own.