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LEGAL-COURTS And the 1st state to fight for Israel is … June 13, 2015 Michael F. Haverluck Part of the article: "South Carolina just became the first state to stand with Israel to fight against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which has spread anti-Semitism from coast to coast, beginning in college campuses. Jewish Americans hope that this will be the beginning of a trend to support America’s greatest ally in the Middle East, which has become the target of politically correct pro-Palestinian sentiment that has portrayed Israel as running an apartheid state. Countering BDS at every turn, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has used its legal and government affairs teams as firepower to get the word out about the truth behind the jihadist-inspired movement that ultimately seeks to wipe Israel off the face of the planet. “[T]he primary aim of the [bDS] movement is to marginalize and delegitimize Israel on the national scene by pressuring corporate and government entities to participate in economic boycotts against Israeli institutions, pull resources and investments from those institutions, and impose sanctions against the state of Israel because of the ways in which it has chosen to defend itself from the hostile, anti-Semitic forces in the Middle East that seek the outright demise of Israel as a political state,” ACLJ informs. Enough is enough The Christian nonprofit legal organization headquartered in the nation’s capital proclaims that Americans are getting fed up with the new brand of anti-Semitism sweeping the nation, realizing that the BDS movement is nothing more than the newest onslaught of politically correct discrimination against the Jewish People and their homeland. And now states are starting to challenge this discrimination head-on, as well,” ACLJ Senior Counsel for Government Affairs Miles Terry announced...“