<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://chicagomonitor.com/2015/05/what-is-the-anti-bds-lobby-celebrating-in-their-victory-in-illinois/" class="">http://chicagomonitor.com/2015/05/what-is-the-anti-bds-lobby-celebrating-in-their-victory-in-illinois/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 27, 2015, at 8:53 AM, C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com" class="">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Our local state legislators, Sen. Scott Bennett & Rep. Carol Ammons, refused to vote against SB1761, which supports Israeli apartheid.<br class=""><br class="">Israeli apartheid is even worse, in the territories illegally occupied by Israel, than South African apartheid was, a generation ago. (E.g., South Africa never attacked the Bantustans - the Black 'homelands' - militarily as Israeli attacked Gaza; apartheid South Africa needed Black labor, but Israel does not need Palestinian labor.)<br class=""><br class="">Would Sen. Bennett and Rep. Ammons have refused to vote against South African apartheid? They should be asked for an explanation and apology for refusing to oppose SB1761.<br class=""><br class="">—CGE<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>