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“Anti-BDS legislation is about commercial activities, not about people’s ability to speak,” says the 33-year-old. “People are free to criticize Israel; that is a protected right. But organized boycotting and divestment with the support of state, local or federal government is not acceptable.”
The Middle East and foreign policy were topics on the table in the latest round of deliberations related to government and the future U.S. presidency.
“It’s important for the people of our community to know that this exists, to take a stand,” said the church’s president, Andy Reese.
It means that negotiations “will no longer begin from the premise that Israel has no claim to this land or stole it from the Palestinians. That false legal theory only served to harden Palestinian positions and make successful negotiations impossible,” said Eugene Kontorovich, director of the Center for International Law in the Middle East at George Mason University’s School of Law.
The responses were characteristically similar, with conservative groups lauding the long-desired position and liberal entities against what they feel is placing an obstacle on peace.
A book by Noura Erakat book claims that the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be understood through a settler-colonial framework; the international community has failed Palestinians by bending the laws in favor of the Jews; and attempts should be made to prosecute Israeli veterans for war crimes,” wrote CAMERA campus adviser Yoni Michanie.
Washington has given Cairo billions of dollars of economic and military assistance, including providing F-16 fighter planes, attack helicopters and other equipment.
“It’s a mistake from our point of view,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “It’s a shame that here we are in the 21st century, still debating the past.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden, California Sen. Kamala Harris, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and a few of the other candidates have criticized the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into the Jewish state.