Vermont city council votes down anti-Israel resolution for third straight year

(JNS) — The city council of Burlington, Vt., rejected a resolution that would have put a nonbinding advisory question on the March ballot asking voters whether the mayor and city council should declare Burlington an “apartheid-free community.”

The question would have also asked voters to urge the city to “join others in working to end all support to Israel’s apartheid regime, settler colonialism and military occupation.”

The vote failed 57, marking the third consecutive year the council has blocked the measure.

Opponents of the resolution, which included several council members, argued that th...