Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, to my colleague from Texas, we accepted one of his amendments during the markup to address some of his accountability concerns. Let's be clear. This is not an anti-First Amendment bill. This bill adds four words to existing law. It does absolutely nothing unprecedented. It only expands coverage of existing protections to include IGOs. The bill is not discriminatory against proponents of the BDS movement, rather it prevents discriminatory actions against Israel and other countries friendly to the United States so as not to undermine U.S. foreign policy. IGOs, like the United Nations, continue to impose one-sided and biased policies against the State of Israel. Madam Speaker, you can't wait until after the fact to protect Israel and the Jewish people, as we saw on October 7. While the E.U. doesn't maintain a similar blacklist, there have been E.U.-based efforts to create one and further other BDS initiatives at the E.U. For example, just last year in February of 2022, pro-BDS activists launched a campaign to call on the E.U. Commission to propose a new law to stop trade with settlements. Luckily, the campaign didn't reach the number of signatures it needed to be brought before the E.U. Commission. Now, let's be clear. The BDS movement is anti-Semitic. The BDS is one tactic in a long history of campaigns and efforts to delegitimize and isolate the State of Israel.…”