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Sil,4�Y !Fs. <br /> City of Sunny Isles Beach <br /> 0 ,� s " @� 18070 Collins Avenue <br /> ! x Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 <br /> .* ,4%..,1-.i. 4. <br /> r �: <br /> it °9� Lo�\° ,wF (305)947-0606 City Hall <br /> • <br /> �`r*or su' <br /> �o (305)949-3113 Fax <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commission <br /> FROM: George H. Scholl, Mayor <br /> DATE: 1/16/2020 <br /> RE: Denouncing the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions <br /> Movement <br /> RECOMMENDATION: <br /> 0 This resolution is presented for your consideration. <br /> REASONS: <br /> The Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement ("BDS <br /> v ment targeting Israel is a campaign that does not favor a two- <br /> state <br /> g g <br /> state solution and that seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the <br /> Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest <br /> of the world. The BDS Movement targets not only the Israeli <br /> government but also Israeli academic, cultural, and civil society <br /> institutions, as well as individual Israeli citizens of all political <br /> persuasions, religions, and ethnicities, and in some cases even Jews <br /> of other nationalities who support Israel. It promotes principles of <br /> collective guilt, mass punishment, and group isolation, which are <br /> destructive of prospects for progress towards peace and a two-state <br /> solution. <br /> As a City, we support a two-state solution wherein Israelis and <br /> Palestinians live side-by-side peacefully, and denounce the BDS <br /> Movement as an anti-Semitic attempt to de-legitimize Israel. <br /> ATTACHMENTS: <br /> Description <br /> 0 Resolution <br /> 201 <br /> I <br />