Repeal IL's Anti-Boycott Law

Illinois Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act

Update as of May 4, 2026:

We showed up. Now we push for a floor vote.

On April 30, supporters of HB 2723 packed a subcommittee hearing in downtown Chicago — and we crushed it. Witnesses testified about Palestinian land, pension fund complicity, and the unconstitutionality of Illinois' anti-BDS law. The opposition ran the same bad faith arguments they always do. They didn't land.

But the hearing was just the beginning.

Now we need to move this bill to a floor vote — and that means putting pressure on every undecided representative and senator in Illinois. On May 20, we're heading to Springfield for a lobby day make clear that their constituents want this law repealed.

Here's how you can help right now:

🗓 Join us in Springfield on May 20. Show up in person and meet with your legislator directly. [Sign up here]

📣 Send a letter to your rep and senator today --> Letter to call for a floor vote here.

📢 Spread the word. Share this page with your network. The more people showing up and calling in, the harder it is to ignore.

We've come too far to stop now.


Update as of April 23, 2026:

In addition to writing your reps, here are more ways to plug in right now:

1. Subject Matter Hearing | April 30 @ 10 AM | Chicago
We fought our way to a subject matter hearing on April 30. It won’t lead directly to a vote — but it puts the reality of this law on the record, in public, with witnesses. Pension experts and human rights advocates will testify to what the anti-boycott law is actually doing and who it’s actually protecting. A press conference follows.

Here’s how to make it count:
• Write your reps! Use the template in our “actions” sidebar to ask them to co-sponsor the bill.
• Write a letter to the editor or op-ed for a local publication. Local papers shape what legislators think their constituents care about. We have a sample here.
• Follow us on Instagram and be sure to share and engage with our content about the hearing.

2. Rally | May 20 @ 10:30 AM | Springfield

This is the one. We want the support for repealing this bill to be impossible to ignore — in the building, on the steps, in every office. Register now and bring people with you.

3. Weekly Coordinating Table
We meet weekly through the end of the legislative session. If you want to know what’s happening and where to put your energy, this is where to be. [Register in the “Actions” Sidebar→]

Feb 2026

HB 2723 — the bill to repeal Illinois’s anti-BDS law and restore the right to boycott — is still alive. After being pushed into subcommittee, we fought our way to a hearing in Chicago on April 30.
Here’s how to plug in:
1. Register for a coordinating table meeting.
This is where strategy gets made and people find their role. Sign up to join one.
2. Sign up for Lobby Day — May 20.
We’re building toward the biggest lobby day this campaign has seen. Add your name.


The State of Illinois is actively suppressing human rights advocacy and shielding Israel from accountability by retaliating against companies that refuse to participate in the Israeli genocide.


HB 2723 aims to reverse that, and you can help by taking the three actions on this page:

1. Write a letter to your reps to ask them to join as co-sponsors.

2. Thank the bill's current co-sponsors.

3. Donate to the grassroots effort!

The bill was scheduled for its first hearing on February 19, 2026. Leading up to that, we outworked, outorganized, and outperformed an institution that has spent decades blocking any progress for Palestinian dignity and human rights.

While AIPAC gathered nearly 3,300 witness slips, the kind of turnout that usually stops a bill in its tracks, our community rallied together and collected nearly 4,000 witness slips, and momentum was only building.

Unfortunately, our momentum was stopped when this week’s hearing was suddenly canceled and we were no longer allowed to show our support for one of the most morally urgent policies imaginable.

This move follows a year of aggressive campaigning and 4,000 constituent letters to secure 35 co-sponsors before the bill was assigned to a committee. But rather than being assigned to an appropriate committee, it was delegated to a committee where advancement would be more difficult. As if that weren't enough, the bill was then pushed down to a subcommittee—a procedural move designed to kill it quietly, without a public vote.

Unable to win on the merits, as most Americans see anti-BDS laws as a clear free speech violation—they turned to bad-faith arguments and backroom pressure to bury the bill in subcommittee where it could be killed quietly.

This is a familiar tactic, deployed to protect the powerful by undermining democracy and hiding from the will of the people.

  • We've seen it with delayed releases and redactions in the Epstein files.

  • With federal agencies stonewalling oversight into ICE abuses.

  • With officials like Kristi Noem and Kash Patel dodging congressional hearings.

Here's what those set on preserving an oppressive status quo don't understand: procedural victories are temporary. The desire for a just world – one where our rights don’t depend on political convenience, where our pensions aren’t weaponized, where our voices matter more than corporate interests – only grows stronger.

From Springfield to Gaza to the border to our own backyards, we see our interconnected fates and collective power. What bends the arc toward justice is not any single bill or hearing, but all of us, together, refusing to look away.

A just world is the inevitable outcome. The only question is whether our lawmakers will choose to represent the clear will of the people.