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Source: http://jcpa.org/article/american-bds-organization-takes-case-capitol-hill/
American BDS Organization Takes Its Case to Capitol Hill
(Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Dan Diker - The "US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation," a national coalition of American Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) organizations, will hold its annual conference on October 14-17 in Arlington, Virginia. The conference will include a "Lobby Day" on Capitol Hill targeting Members of Congress. The US Campaign supports BDS and calls for Israel's destruction as a Jewish state. Rather than opposing particular Israeli policies, it opposes Israel's very existence and rejects a two-state solution. The US Campaign leadership and key members support (and in some cases have ties to) designated terrorist organizations and have a track record of violence and incitement. The policies of the BDS campaign adopted by the US Campaign have frequently been described as discriminatory and anti-Semitic and may violate relevant anti-discrimination laws. Institutions facilitating the work of the US Campaign should carefully consider the possible legal implications of this facilitation. Members of Congress, regardless of their views on Israeli polices, should be wary of meeting with representatives of an organization that calls for the destruction of a U.S. ally, supports terror and violence, and promotes discriminatory and anti-Semitic policies. The writer is Director of the Political Warfare Project at the Jerusalem Center, which seeks to expose the strategy, tactics, and long-term ideological goals of the BDS movement and to uproot BDS at the source.