Protect the right to boycott

Oak Park’s Nov. 3 ballot asks whether Illinois should repeal its 2015 ban on state pension investment in companies that boycott Israel. This Illinois law singles out Israel for protection from boycott. A Yes vote on this advisory referendum tells our local legislators we want them to stand up for the right to boycott. Boycotts are core to America’s civil rights history: the Montgomery bus boycott that helped end Jim Crow, the grape boycott that won farmworkers a union, and the global fight against Apartheid. In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that a boycott of white-owned businesses by Black

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