736: Pompeo declares BDS anti-Semitic. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres
Image: A Russian ukase in 1827 initiated forced conscription of Jewish male children into the army, where they had to serve for twenty-five years, removed from any family contacts. This was not seen as patriotic duty, but rather as a form of anti-Semitic abuse. Most immigrants knew cases of such hardship, and Yiddish theatricals often portrayed those tragedies Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of President, in re: Pompeo declares BDS to be anti-Semitic.