Rashida Tlaib silent on constituent targeted by BDS threats and vandalism

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On July 23, the House voted 398-17 in favor of bipartisan House Resolution 246, condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel and noting that BDS “seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest of the world.”

H.R. 246's sponsor, Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Illinois, warned that those who support BDS “[understand] what they believe the movement does without fully understanding the impact of it.”

It is hard to imagine that Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who voted against the resolution, does not understand BDS’ impact. In December, the Palestinian American became the second U.S. lawmaker to express support for BDS. At the same time, one of her constituents was coming in contact with the movement’s darker side.

It was not an impending boycott which led Lebanese and Muslim American Sam Zahr to give up on opening his Dearborn, Michigan, burger franchise after spending $180,000 preparing the location. What stopped him were the constant threats, the episode of vandalism, and the harassment he experienced in the name of BDS.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rashida-tlaib-silent-on-constituent-targeted-by-bds-threats-and-vandalism