WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
by Adam Kredo
May 12, 2015

A leading pro-Israel lawmaker is pushing back against lobbying efforts by anti-Israel activists to derail a piece of legislation that would work to prevent U.S. trade partners from supporting economic boycotts of Israel. Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.) blasted a coalition of anti-Israel organizations, including the left-wing group J Street, for seeking to kill a new bipartisan measure that would fight back against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on an international scale. The legislation, co-authored by Roskam and Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.), was unanimously passed as an amendment to a larger trade bill currently up for consideration in Congress. The amendment would counter global BDS efforts by requiring the United States to pressure its European trade partners to reject anti-Israel boycotts as part of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a massive trade deal between the United States and the European Union. READ MORE