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March 26, 2019
In a letter to Congressional leaders, ADL, along with coalition partners, expressed support for a recently introduced bipartisan resolution opposing the BDS movement and reaffirming support for a two-state solution.
March 26, 2019
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senate Majority Leader
S-230, U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20510
Senator Charles E. Schumer
Senate Minority Leader
S-221, U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20510
Representative Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
H-232, U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20515
Representative Kevin McCarthy
House Minority Leader
H-204, U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Leader McConnell, Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi and Leader McCarthy:
We the undersigned organizations strongly encourage you to help pass the important bipartisan resolution recently introduced in the House by Reps. Schneider, Nadler, Zeldin, and Wagner and in the Senate by Sens. Portman and Cardin expressing Congress’s overwhelming opposition on both sides of the aisle to the international movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction America’s crucial ally, the State of Israel. This resolution also expresses timely Congressional support for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would result in two states – a democratic Jewish State of Israel, and a viable, democratic Palestinian state – living side-by-side in peace, security, and mutual recognition.
BDS is the most common tactic today for efforts around the world to delegitimize the Jewish state and in the process, undermine the possibility of a two-state solution. Many founders and leaders of the BDS movement have made anti-Semitic statements and even reject Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
The BDS movement has sought to exploit economic, social, political, religious, academic, and cultural platforms to unfairly isolate Israel within the international community. In particular, the movement’s approach on campuses is fundamentally contrary to the principle of academic freedom as well as to the crucial task of building tolerance through constructive people-to-people interactions. The movement also provides an incentive for the Palestinian Authority to avoid engaging in timely and direct negotiations and undercuts those Israelis who seek a negotiated resolution to the conflict.
This resolution is an opportunity for Congress to make clear its opposition to the goals of the BDS movement and its commitment to a sustainable two-state solution.
Sincerely,
ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
AJC (American Jewish Committee)
B’nai B’rith International
Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc.
Israel Action Network
Israel Policy Forum
The Israel Project
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs
The Jewish Federations of North America
JWI (Jewish Women International)
Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice
MERCAZ USA
National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry
National Council of Jewish Women
StandWithUs
Union for Reform Judaism
World Jewish Congress United States