House Passes Resolution Opposing Boycott Against Israel
(July 24, 2019)
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 398-17 to approve resolution H.Rres 246 opposing the global boycott movement against Israel. House Democratic leaders brought the resolution to the floor according to a rule that required a two-thirds majority for passage and limited debate to 40 minutes. No one spoke in opposition to the resolution during the allotted debate. The resolution says the House opposes BDS because it:
“Undermines the possibility for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by demanding concessions of one party alone and encouraging the Palestinians to reject negotiations in favor of international pressure;”
“Targets not only the Israeli government but also Israeli academic, cultural, and civil society institutions, as well as individual Israeli citizens of all political persuasions, religions, and ethnicities, and in some cases even Jews of other nationalities who support Israel;”
“Does not recognize, and many of its supporters explicitly deny, the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination;”
“Promotes principles of collective guilt, mass punishment, and group isolation, which are destructive of prospects for progress towards peace and a two-state solution;
“Violate the core goals of the university and global cultural development, which thrive on free and open exchange and debate, and in some cases, leads to the intimidation and harassment of Jewish students and others who support Israel.”
The resolution also reaffirms House support for a two-state solution.
The House has not voted on a stronger Senate bill which would make it illegal under federal statute to boycott Israel and grant federal protection to state and local governments that refuse to invest in or contract with companies which boycott Israel.
H RES 246 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 23-Jul-2019 7:04 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended
BILL TITLE: Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel
| YEAS | NAYS | PRES | NV | |
| DEMOCRATIC | 209 | 16 | 4 | 5 |
| REPUBLICAN | 189 | 1 | 7 | |
| INDEPENDENT | 1 | |||
| TOTALS | 398 | 17 | 5 | 12 |
| Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Allred Amodei Arrington Axne Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Barragán Beatty Bera Bergman Beyer Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F. Brady Brindisi Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Bustos Butterfield Byrne Calvert Carbajal Cárdenas Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Cheney Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Cline Cloud Clyburn Cohen Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comer Conaway Connolly Cook Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crawford Crenshaw Crist Crow Cuellar Cummings Cunningham Curtis Davids (KS) Davidson (OH) Davis (CA) Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier DesJarlais Deutch Diaz-Balart Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Duffy Duncan Dunn Emmer Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Estes Evans Ferguson Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flores Fortenberry Foster Foxx (NC) Frankel Fudge Fulcher Gabbard Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garcia (TX) Gibbs Golden |
Gomez Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Gosar Gottheimer Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Haaland Hagedorn Harder (CA) Harris Hartzler Hastings Hayes Heck Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Higgins (NY) Hill (AR) Hill (CA) Himes Holding Hollingsworth Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hudson Huizenga Hunter Hurd (TX) Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kaptur Katko Keating Keller Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamb Lamborn Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (NV) Lesko Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Long Loudermilk Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Luján Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Marchant Marshall Mast Matsui McAdams McBath McCarthy McCaul McClintock McEachin McGovern McHenry McKinley McNerney Meadows Meeks Meng Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Morelle Mucarsel-Powell Mullin Murphy Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newhouse Norcross Norman |
Nunes O'Halleran Olson Palazzo Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pence Perlmutter Perry Peters Peterson Phillips Porter Posey Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Riggleman Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rooney (FL) Rose (NY) Rose, John W. Rouda Rouzer Roy Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rutherford Sánchez Sarbanes Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Shimkus Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Soto Spanberger Spano Speier Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Taylor Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Timmons Tipton Titus Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Welch Wenstrup Westerman Wexton Wild Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yarmuth Yoho Young Zeldin |
| Blumenauer Carson (IN) Dingell García (IL) Grijalva Jayapal |
Lee (CA) Massie McCollum Moore Ocasio-Cortez Omar |
Pingree Pocan Rush Tlaib Watson Coleman |
| Amash Bass |
Davis, Danny K. Huffman |
Johnson (GA) |
| Abraham Armstrong Gianforte Gohmert |
Gonzalez (TX) Graves (MO) Moulton Richmond |
Roby Ryan Stewart Wilson (FL) |
Sources: Cristina Marcos, “House passes bill opposing BDS, exposing divide among Democrats,” The Hill, (July 23, 2019);
Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, (July 23, 2019).
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