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.