Yuh-Line Niou stated she would vote "no" on any anti-BDS laws.
Home candidate Yuh-Line Niou stated Wednesday she would vote “no” on any pro-Israel decision opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) motion towards the Jewish state.
“I might not vote for something opposing the BDS motion’s proper to exist,” Niou, a state assemblywoman, stated throughout PIX 11’s Democratic major debate for the tenth Congressional District.
Niou was requested about how she would vote on such a decision — handed by the Home of Representatives in 2019 however opposed by far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — after she expressed help for the BDS motion throughout an interview with Jewish Insider final month.
She infuriated pro-Israel activists additional simply days later when she posted a photograph of herself getting ready to take a chunk out of a loaf of challah bread.
When requested to make clear her place Wednesday evening, Niou stated she “completely” supported Israel’s proper to exist.
However she emphasised that it’s essential to “defend the free speech rights of the BDS motion” to have interaction in “non-violent and peaceable protest.”
“I actually have by no means boycotted Israel. However I feel it’s actually essential to verify they've rights to free speech. I feel the motion is essential as a result of I've so many associates who're clearly combating for the human rights of Palestinians,” Niou stated.
The newly drawn tenth District — which stretches from decrease Manhattan by way of brownstone Brooklyn to components of Borough Park — has a large pro-Israel Jewish inhabitants.
Critics of the BDS motion say it's an anti-semitic try and delegitimize Israel and guarantee its financial and political isolation, with the final word objective of its destruction.
Different candidates operating for the open seat embrace Home impeachment lawyer Dan Goldman, Rep. Mondaire Jones, Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon and former Congresswoman and Brooklyn DA Elizabeth Holtzman.
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