(SRN NEWS) Battles over boycotts of Israel are playing out at the state level. So far, 38 states have passed laws or executive orders that penalize contractors or companies that refuse to do business with the Jewish State. Now pro-Palestinian groups are organizing efforts to repeal such legislation in Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The issue first […]
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(SRN NEWS) Battles over boycotts of Israel are playing out at the state level. So far, 38 states have passed laws or executive orders that penalize contractors or companies that refuse to do business with the Jewish State. Now pro-Palestinian groups are organizing efforts to repeal such legislation in Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The issue first came to the fore with the establishment of the Palestinian campaign called Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions. It seeks to force Israel to give away some of its territory to the Palestinians — something Israel has already done.
( ) Men are to be banned outright from women’s and girls’ cricket in the United Kingdom. The England and Wales Cricket Board has updated its previous restrictions following a U.K. Supreme Court ruling in April. The ECB says men who are living as women can continue playing in open and mixed cricket competitions. The announcement comes shortly after men were banned from playing on women’s soccer teams in England and Scotland. The high court decided that for anti-discrimination purposes, only people who were born biologically female can be considered women.
( ) President Trump is swiftly remaking housing policy as the Department of Housing and Urban Development drops special privileges for transgender people. HUD is reworking the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that expanded protections to include sexual orientation and so-called “gender identity”. Also covered are fair-housing complaint investigations and federally funded women’s homeless shelters, where men will not be allowed to stay. HUD says it is upholding the Fair Housing Act and “restoring biological truth to the federal government.”
( ) George Simion (SIM-ee-un), a conservative and vocal supporter of President Trump, is the favorite to become Romania’s next president after winning the first round of voting this past Sunday by a wide margin. Simion’s AUR Party rose to prominence in the 2020 parliamentary elections by vowing to stand for “family, nation, faith, and freedom”. AUR opposes same-sex marriage and has close ties to the Romanian Orthodox Church. It has doubled its support to become Romania’s second largest party in the legislature. The presidential run-off is set for May 18th.