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Jackson Richman

“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 agreement seeks to further “innovation and entrepreneurship” in the Windy City and the Jewish state by uniting business, academic, civic and government leaders, led by World Business Chicago.
“In many ways, liberal journalists are recycling the scripts they used in covering the 2015 Israeli elections. Back then, they scolded Netanyahu for ‘hardline’ or even ‘racist’ rhetoric that “went for the gutter,” said Rich Noyes, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center.
“Most people aren’t aware of the difference between what’s happening in Gaza—run by Hamas in a way that is contributing to a lot of misery there—but also totally different than an environment where you’d have a negotiating partner across the table.”
“It’s worth noting that Quebec’s famously secular society has for decades tolerated the existence of a large crucifix over the chair of the speaker of their provincial legislature,” Canadian pundit Neil Macdonald. “This, argue Quebec nationalists, is a symbol of history, not religion.”
“There is no excuse to use a public-health issue, an outbreak we are suffering from, as a platform from which to spew poisonous anti-Semitic rhetoric,” Agudath Israel said in a statement.
“I have been extremely disappointed by the way this resolution has been handled by everyone involved,” said junior Savanna Lim. “You can’t expect a student government to solve a geopolitical crisis.”
The American Jewish community on both sides of the political coin reacts to the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud in Israel’s national elections on April 9.
“There is a greater rise in new anti-Semitism that clothes itself as anti-Zionism. The anti-Semitism of the European street, of the college campus and of those [who] have embraced the notion that the Jewish people don’t have a right to their homeland,” he said.