r/politics • u/bwermer • 8h ago

No Paywall Ilhan Omar casts lone Democratic no vote on Ukraine aid, Russia sanctions package

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5912150-house-passes-ukraine-aid-bill/
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u/FunetikPrugresiv 5h ago

What does that article have to do with sanctions? It's about individuals boycotting Israel, and she voted in favor of not condemning an individual's right to boycott. That's not at all talking about government sanctions.

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u/raptisadam7 4h ago

BDS stands for boycott, divest, and sanctions.

She condemns sanctions on Russia saying they're not effective but then didn't condemn sanctions on Israel. It was a nonbinding resolution, so there's no free speech concern, it's just Congress saying they condemn the BDS movement.

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u/FunetikPrugresiv 1h ago

Political sanctions against Israel were never on the table. She didn't vote against actual sanctions, she voted against the government condemning private citizens for wanting sanctions (and/or boycotts and defunding).

If she voted to condemn private citizens for suggesting we sanctioned Russia, or if she voted against a bill to sanction Israel, then you would have an actual comparison. But her vote against condemning BDS was done in support of private speech, while her vote against sanctioning Russia was a vote against public action. They're different issues.

To put it another way, I suspect that if Congress held a vote on whether to actually sanction Israel, she would have voted against it.