Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi may find herself in the middle of an intra-party conflict as early as next week, as a group of powerful House Democrats led by House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is planning to introduce a measure condemning the global, anti-Semitic "boycott-divest-sanction" (or BDS) movement that calls for countries, corporations, and individuals to cut Israel off economically.
Several House members, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), are vocal supporters of the BDS movement, and while other younger, more progressive Democrats haven't spoken on the issue specifically, they're likely to be at least sympathetic to the cause.
But Nadler and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) told Politico that they believe the time has come for the House to make a real statement in support of America's ally, Israel, and they believe the anti-BDS bill is the right way to do it.
"In a letter to colleagues Thursday, Nadler and Schneider described the global attempt to economically isolate Israel as an 'overly-simplistic and one-sided approach,' Politico reported.
“Its goal is Israel’s elimination, not the criticism of any particular policy of Israel,” the pair says about the BDS movement — a statement that is certain to make both Omar and Tlaib bristle.
Omar has regularly expressed support for BDS since being elected, though she claimed on the campaign trail that she had no love for the movement. Haaretz reported, shortly after Omar's election, that a spokesperson with her campaign told a website called "MuslimGirl" that Omar fully backed BDS, and that "she has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized."
Tlaib is so passionate about BDS that she unleashed the historically anti-Semitic "dual loyalty" smear against her Congressional colleagues in the Senate when an anti-BDS bill came up for a vote there earlier this year. At the time, The Daily Wire reported that Tlaib tweeted:
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