We are encouraging all of our members, neighbors, and friends to contact Representative Kelly Cassidy (HD-14) and ask her to join her Democratic caucus colleagues in co-sponsoring HB 2723. It is time for Illinois to meet Illinoisans where they are at and repeal this extremist law!

Even worse, the law applies to territories that Israel occupies, meaning that companies can miss out on investment because they won’t do business in illegal West Bank settlements.

Fortunately, legislation was filed to reverse this extremist policy just this year.

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Our IPO will be accepting applications through December 1st, which will include questionnaires and video statements. We plan to review the results that week, to begin voting on the 5th, and for voting to conclude on the 12th.

Live outside our district and want your state senator to support repealing our state’s extremist pro-Israel law? Check out the Illinois Coalition for Human Rights for tools on how to get in touch with your representatives.

www.ilchr.org

We are grateful that our representative in the state senate took a stand against extremism and for the values that make Illinois great. We encourage all of our neighbors and friends to send his team a message thanking him for being on the right side of history.

www.senatormikesimmons.com/contact-us

We urge all of our members, friends, and neighbors to contact their representative to ask them to support the repeal bill, and to follow the Illinois Coalition for Human Rights to find more ways to support it.

Two years after Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of Illinoisans want our country’s relationship with Israel to change, and certainly do not want Springfield to signal unconditional support for the Israeli government’s policies.

The law is so extreme that it also applies to illegal settlements outside of Israel that exist solely to deny Palestinians a state of their own. Meanwhile, there is nothing to keep Illinois from investing in companies owned by American anti-Semites and Islamophobes like Elon Musk.

In 2015, Republican Governor Bruce Rauner signed a law that would force Illinois to divest public pension funds from any company that chose to boycott Israel because of their record of human rights violations.

Democrats are fed up with the unconditional support our country grants to the Israelis, particularly while they prohibit aid from being distributed in Gaza. We urge our members, neighbors, and friends to tell @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov that they must support an arms embargo.

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