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Jonah Valdez
September 20 2024, 12:51 p.m.

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Julia Conley
Sep 18, 2024

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that designates products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as originating from “Israel”.

This bill, titled the "Anti-BDS Labeling Act," solidifies a Trump-era policy that critics argue undermines Palestinians' UN-recognised territorial claims and champions Israel’s annexation efforts while directly targeting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, sending a clear message against those advocating for Palestinian human rights.

The bill, sponsored by Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York, passed with a vote of 231 to 189 and received support from 16 Democrats, including some of the party’s most pro-Israel members. It mandates that products from the occupied West Bank and Gaza no longer be labelled together but separately, effectively erasing the recognition of their unified identity. Products would read either "West Bank" or "Gaza" rather than "West Bank and Gaza".

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"This is the first known American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership to end at an American university since the war on Gaza began,” it added.

According to the statement, the Lockheed Martin Seed Fund has, since 2019, been a program administered by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative Israel, or MISTI-Israel, to connect students and researchers on this campus to the Israeli offices of Lockheed Martin, a global arms manufacturer.

“Well not with MIT labor anymore. Under pressure from students and scientists of conscience at this Institute, the MIT administration has discontinued MISTI-Israel’s Lockheed Martin Seed Fund and will not renew its contract,” the coalition stated.

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