Tom Paine 1949
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Are you comparing the KKK to the Israeli state? I am not.There is no doubt that state laws pushed by right-wing Zionists making peaceful boycotts illegal and even forbidding or limiting free speech advocating peaceful boycotts, is an outrageous attack on U.S. liberties. I agree it is also “patently obvious” that not allowing government contracts to be signed with organizations or companies that have specific political viewpoints (in this case favoring or supporting BDS) is a violation of basic rights. The right wing (or “liberal”) Zionists are interfering with free speech and political activity in all these cases, and Christian Zionists are involved in this as well. While Conservatives are today vocal opponents of attacks on their own supposed “free speech rights” by private (Section 230 protected) internet platforms, they are here in cahoots with much more serious state restrictions of free speech and peaceful boycott activity.
Does free speech cover incitement to violence?
I don't hear you complain about the KKK being banned.
But Israelis for decades have argued that Palestinians were all terrorists. They ignored all the mass peaceful Palestinian boycotts and demonstrations against them. Now that they have destroyed any hope of a “two-state solution,” and may soon formally annex the whole West Bank ...
They are afraid of worldwide BDS movements. So they now argue that peaceful boycotts and even just advocacy for peaceful boycotts even in the U.S. are “covers” for violence or “incitement to violence”!
Shame on you and Israel ... and shame on American society that has allowed right wing Zionists (and Christian Zionists like Pence and Pompeo) such power over our own federal and state governments!
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