[Peace-discuss] Our legislators support apartheid

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://chicagomonitor.com/2015/05/what-is-the-anti-bds-lobby-celebrating-in-their-victory-in-illinois/ <http://chicagomonitor.com/2015/05/what-is-the-anti-bds-lobby-celebrating-in-their-victory-in-illinois/>


> On May 27, 2015, at 8:53 AM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
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> Our local state legislators, Sen. Scott Bennett & Rep. Carol Ammons, refused to vote against SB1761, which supports Israeli apartheid.
> 
> 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.)
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> 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.
> 
> —CGE
> 
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