Legislation would combat those who seek to delegitimize Israel’s existence.
By Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy May 14 at 7:22 PM Mitch McConnell is the Senate majority leader. Kevin McCarthy is the House Republican leader.
State and local leaders across the nation are stepping up and taking action to ensure that the taxpayers they represent are not made unwilling participants in the BDS movement. In the House and Senate here in Washington, we have worked together to champion bipartisan legislation that would prevent the federal government from obstructing those state and local efforts. It is past time for the legislation to become law.
The anti-Semitic bigotry masquerading as principled activism clashes with core principles that Americans have held dear since the nation’s founding. As early as 1790, in a letter to a Hebrew congregation in Rhode Island, President George Washington famously insisted that the government must give “bigotry no sanction.” Surely this common-sense, universal principle must still apply today — to all men and women of all races, religions and abilities.
Both of us are committed champions of the First Amendment and recognize that any state and local action would need to carefully balance individuals’ freedom of speech and expression with the public’s right not to be co-opted into bankrolling an anti-Semitic boycott. This legislation ensures this important process cannot be short-circuited by BDS proponents citing federal supremacy over foreign policies.
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