[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 23, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H7227]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





    DELEGITIMIZING THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND OPPOSING THE BDS MOVEMENT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, tonight we voted on a resolution opposing 
efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and oppose the Global 
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, BDS, Movement targeting Israel.
  I am a cosponsor of this resolution, but the House should also be 
voting on legislation to combat these efforts to undermine one of our 
strongest allies, like the Senate did when they passed a bill to 
authorize State or local governments to divest assets from entities 
deploying BDS against Israel.
  But, unfortunately, Democrat leadership refuses to let us vote on 
this bill in the House for fear of fractures within their own party. 
Just last week, one of their Members actually introduced legislation 
that supports this hate-fueled BDS movement, even drawing disgraceful 
comparisons between boycotting Israel now and boycotting Nazi Germany 
in the 1930s and 1940s.
  Let's not forget that the United States and Israel have a long 
history of working together to achieve stability in the Middle East, 
the inventions they work on together, and they remain one of our 
strongest and most loyal allies today.
  Our actions in this Chamber need to unequivocally support that 
relationship and the lone beacon of freely elected government that is 
Israel in the Middle East.
  As Golda Meir put it:

       We will only have peace when they love their children more 
     than they hate us.

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