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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.”
“From this Benjamin, it’s not about the Benjamins!” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the annual AIPAC conference speaking by live video from Israel.
“The reality in the south—as we unfortunately saw today where Israeli children spend their nights in bomb shelters while the heads of Hamas celebrate—must end now, and it will,” said former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz.
Vice President Mike Pence. Credit: Simon Edelman/Energy Department.
Pence blasts anti-Semitic rhetoric, 2020 Democratic candidates for missing AIPAC
Vice President Mike Pence blasted Democratic freshmen in the House of Representatives on Monday, in addition to certain candidates on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, for the former using “rank anti-Semitic language” and the latter for avoiding the AIPAC annual policy conference in Washington.
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă has been met with resistance by President Klaus Iohannis, who would make the final decision.
“Since 2008, we have only had presidential candidates speaking in actual election years,” said the source.
Brown student leader and SWU Emerson fellow Jesse Raviv said “as predicted, the Brown Divest vote polarized the student body, induced incidents of hate through online forums and created a hostile environment for pro-Israel students.”
“The main question is: Will this trip present students with a well-rounded view of the conflict or reflect the bias of the organization running it?” said StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
This comes after the left-wing group MoveOn called on candidates to skip the event through conducting a survey among its members, in which 74 percent “agree or strongly agree” that “any progressive vying to be the Democratic nominee for president should skip the AIPAC conference,” said the organization in a statement.