Call Speaker Pelosi’s Office to Encourage H. Res 246 Condemning BDS

Jul 18, 2019 by Susan Rosenbluth

An outfit calling itself “American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)” sent out an email asking its supporters (and would-be supporters) to call Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to stop House Resolution 246 condemning BDS.

Yesterday, H Res 246, which condemns the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, passed in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This means H Res 246 will be brought to a floor vote in the House next week.

AMP, which wants to stop H Res 246 in its tracks, demanded its followers call Ms. Pelosi to insist that Democrats “take a consistent stand against efforts to suppress individuals right to boycott in support of Palestinian human rights.”

PA Summer Camp

AMP sent this out the same day Palestinian Media Watch, an Israel-based media watchdog group, reported that PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement is running a children’s summer camp named after terrorist mass murderer Dalal Mughrabi. In 1978, Ms. Mughrabi and her terror cell murdered 37 Israelis, including 12 children.

After PMW released its report, Jason Greenblatt, the Special Advisor to the US President, and Ofir Gendelman, the Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesman for the Arab media, condemned naming a children’s camp after a mass murderer. In response, Fatah praised Ms. Mughrabi as a nationalist heroine and called murdering Israelis, including children, “legitimate human struggle.”

Nevertheless, in the US, Jamal Najjab, AMP’s director of government relations, asked his supporters to “keep the pressure on by demanding that Speaker Pelosi not bring the anti-Palestinian, anti-free speech, and anti-BDS resolution to a House vote next week.”

Call the Speaker

He wants people to call Ms. Pelosi against the vote, but members of the pro-Israel community can voice their opinion, too. Simply call the Speaker’s office at 202-225-0100 and either tell a staffer or just leave a message informing her that you support bringing House Resolution 246 to a vote on the floor.

For the pro-Israel community, it will be very important to see how members of Congress vote. Those who vote for the resolution are people who oppose BDS and support Israel; those who vote against it support BDS and are not friends of Israel.

Do it today!