On July 23, the House voted 398-17 in favor of bipartisan House Resolution 246, condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel and noting that BDS “seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest of the world.”

H.R. 246’s sponsor, Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Illinois, warned that those who support BDS “[understand] what they believe the movement does without fully understanding the impact of it.”