[Peace-discuss] Our legislators support apartheid

[David Green]

It should be stressed, furthering the idea that this bill is utterly without actual consequences, that the bill ultimately states that it does not apply to American companies; apparently, only foreign ones, some of which have indeed boycotted the occupied territories. 
The purpose of this bill was to hate on opponents of Israel's occupation. Both of our representatives refused to oppose this bill, therefore consenting to apartheid and the racism that goes along with it. They also consent to hating on those of their constituents, including students, who have been active in the BDS movement. This is an issue that will not just go away.DG 


     On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 10:30 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
   
 

 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:
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.)

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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