Trade-union leaders in Israel and the US urged the federal German teachers’ labor organization this week to take action, including legal measures, against educators in the city of Oldenburg for their call to impose a full boycott on the Jewish state.
In May, Israel scored another major moral victory when the United Methodist Church shot down four resolutions calling for the organization to divest from companies that operate in Israel’s post-1967 borders. Only days after this stunning rejection of BDS, the UMC followed up its pro-Israel stance by advocating the Church’s withdrawal from the rabidly anti-Israel “US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.”
On April 15, numerous local members of Congress were among the 37 members of the Congressional Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism which sent a letter to John B. King, Jr., the new U.S. Secretary of Education, asking him to outline how his agency is tracking, investigating and responding to cases of anti-Semitism on campus — particularly in light of the spread of the BDS movement on U.S. college campuses.
Among the local members of Congress who signed the letter to King include:
•U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D, FL -21)
•U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel (D, FL-22), •U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D, FL-23), •U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D, FL-24), •U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R, FL-26), •U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R, FL-27)