Sacramento speaks out against anti-BDS bill
Published on July, 29 2016
By Ellen Schwartz, Sacramento/Sierra Foothills Branch
Laurie Jones, Don Knutson, and Ellen Schwartz of the Sacramento Branch WILPF spoke on Tuesday, June 28, before the California state senate judiciary committee in opposition to the anti-BDS Act of 2016 (AB 2844), a bill that is anti-free speech, anti-boycott, and anti-Palestinian rights.
AB 2844, “California Combating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel Act of 2016,” would prevent any company refusing to do business with Israel from having any kind of contract with the state of California and labels the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic.
“I just consider AB2844 as an effort to protect and preserve wrongdoing,” said Don Knutson. “And all the while, funding Israeli is so expensive to the American taxpayer. That fact was never mentioned in the hearing.”
Photo: California State Capitol in Sacramento. Credit: © Steven Pavlov, Wikimedia Commons.
