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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.”
“This campaign is based on lies and the same idiocy that infects every anti-Israel individual. BDS is anti-Semitic and the Hillel is pro-Israel, and should say that publicly,” said George Washington University junior Shep Gerszberg.
J Street U and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters at the University of Vermont released corresponding letters last week blasting the school’s Hillel for accepting funds from the pro-Israel group Maccabee Task Force.
Democratic New Jersey Sen. Booker, 49, who represents a state with more than half a million Jews, labeled BDS as an “anti-Jewish movement.”
“It really goes to show how colossally poor of a decision it was for Democratic leadership to put someone on the House Foreign Affairs Committee whose animus towards Jews and Israel so clouds her judgement that she can’t recognize that Israel is not only a democracy, but the only one in the Middle East,” said RJC spokesperson Neil Strauss.
Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”
“As the president has made clear, entities that continue to engage in sanctionable activity involving Iran risk severe consequences,” the U.S. State Department told JNS.
“We are not seeking anything. The Americans have made a decision,” said senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat. “But we are going to continue being part of fighting terror in the region.”
Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin said that “the intelligence community has a long history of playing word games and redefining what steps toward a nuclear bomb constitute.”