{"id":34335,"date":"2019-07-19T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34335"},"modified":"2019-07-19T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:36:09","slug":"rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-introduce-resolution-aimed-at-bolstering-israel-boycotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34335","title":{"rendered":"Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar introduce resolution aimed at bolstering Israel boycotts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rbl.ms\/19935424\/origin.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<p> Freshmen Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib( Mich .) and Ilhan Omar( Minn .) have introduced a resolution limiting legislative measures to stop boycotts, while promoting it as an endorsement for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bdsmovement.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement<\/a> against Israel. <\/p>\n<p>What are the details? <\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<p> The two congresswomen were are participating in fellow Democrat John Lewis( Ga .) in planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-resolution\/496\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22John+Lewis%22%5D%7D&#038;r=6&#038;s=4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Resolution 496<\/a>, &#8220;affirming that all Americans have the right to take part in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<p> The language of such measures points to the Boston Tea Party and Montgomery bus boycott as historic examples of how such economic sanctions have been effectively used in the past. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/07\/ilham-omar-pro-bds-legislation-trump-israel.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Monitor<\/a> on Tuesday, Omar made it clear that the intention of the resolution was to provide a pathway for the BDS initiative to thrive. <\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<p> &#8220;We are introducing a resolution&#8230;to really speak about the American appreciates<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/ready-rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-introduce-resolution-aimed-at-bolstering-israel-boycotts\">theblaze.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshmen Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib( Mich .) and Ilhan Omar( Minn .) have introduced a resolution limiting legislative measures to stop boycotts, while promoting it as an endorsement for the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement against Israel. What are the details? The two congresswomen were are participating in fellow Democrat John Lewis( Ga .) in planning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19189,16972,18203,204,19187,19188],"class_list":["post-34335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-bds","tag-boycott","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-israel","tag-rashida-tlaib","tag-resolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img1563528971.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}