The Indiana resolution was initiated by the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana (JAACI), who presented it to the Indiana General Assembly.
“Indiana’s resolution benefited from the Tennessee model anti-BDS resolution and is now the second state in a growing national movement to defend Israel against BDS,” Elliot Bartky—the president of JAACI, who testified in support of the resolution before the Indiana legislature—told JNS.org.
PJTN’s Cardoza-Moore said that her group plans to launch a more intensive nationwide campaign to get more state legislatures to affirm their opposition to the BDS movement.
“[The BDS] movement poses a huge threat to our students—not even [only] to Jewish students, but to any pro-Israel students on campus. That way to defeat this is to educate people by giving them the tools and mechanisms to confront BDS,” she said.
This article was written by Sena Savage for JNS.