Boycott Israel

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DePaul students: Censure 'immoral' prof for 'annexation' op-ed

 

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Israel announces its participation in World Expo 2020 in Dubai

 

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Facebook Forms New AI Team In Israel R&D Center | Technology News

 

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Judge temporarily blocks enforcement of Texas law banning contractors from boycotting Israel
The order came in a case brought by a Pflugerville school speech pathologist who was told she could only continue her contract work if she promised not to boycott Israel.

Bahia Amawi, a contractor with the Pflugerville ISD, sued after she was told she must sign a pledge not to boycott Israel in order to continue working for the district. Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune

A federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement Thursday of a state law that prohibits government agencies in Texas from doing business with contractors who are boycotting Israel.

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued an injunction against the law, saying it threatens to suppress unpopular ideas and manipulates “the public debate through coercion rather than persuasion.”

"This the First Amendment does not allow," he wrote.

Judge temporarily blocks enforcement of Texas law banning contractors from boycotting Israel

 

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‘God is great’: For the third time, a federal judge blocks an Israel boycott ban on First Amendment grounds

His decision is in line with a similar judgment last September, when a federal judge in Arizona said the state could not require companies to submit a written pledge attesting that they were not boycotting Israel. That decision followed an opinion in January 2018 from a federal judge in Kansas, who ruled for the first time that enforcing a state provision requiring contractors to sign a no-boycott certification violated expressive rights guaranteed under the First Amendment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...iq_8DyB_suHorO3idQBhOk&utm_term=.fa2a5bdf73c5

 

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How do “conservatives” argue that government can’t tell you what to buy when it comes to healthcare, then turn around and try to use government to tell you what you must buy when it comes to boycotting Israel?

 

[Hollie]

BDS FAIL: Anti-Israel Congresswoman Used Israeli Company to Help Build Her Campaign

BDS FAIL: Anti-Israel Congresswoman Used Israeli Company to Help Build Her Campaign

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is the United States' first Palestinian-American congresswomen and a proud supporter of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS)movement against Israel.

However, a new report from the Israel Advocacy Movement suggests Tlaib doesn't always put her money where her mouth is when it comes to BDS.

In a video, Israel Advocacy Movement founder Joseph Cohen pointed out that Tlaib used the incredibly successful Israeli company Wix to build her campaign website.

 

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BDS FAIL: Anti-Israel Congresswoman Used Israeli Company to Help Build Her Campaign

BDS FAIL: Anti-Israel Congresswoman Used Israeli Company to Help Build Her Campaign

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is the United States' first Palestinian-American congresswomen and a proud supporter of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS)movement against Israel.

However, a new report from the Israel Advocacy Movement suggests Tlaib doesn't always put her money where her mouth is when it comes to BDS.

In a video, Israel Advocacy Movement founder Joseph Cohen pointed out that Tlaib used the incredibly successful Israeli company Wix to build her campaign website.

 

[Synthaholic]

How do “conservatives” argue that government can’t tell you what to buy when it comes to healthcare, then turn around and try to use government to tell you what you must buy when it comes to boycotting Israel?

*bump* for the “conservative” intellectuals here on USMB.

 

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[Hollie]

I wasn’t aware that the British government attempted to smear BDS.

Link?

I think this is just another of your frantic, juvenile outbursts as an attempt to promote your Jew hatreds.

 

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Watch: Paratroopers sing 'Hatikva' in Germany

 

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According to Canada’s CBC, the mayor’s office issued a statement saying that Mayor Brian Bowman “does not feel it is appropriate to provide this individual a public platform to further propagate antisemitic views and hate.”

Bowman commented further on Tuesday, saying, “It’s less about the speaker than the social planning council providing that platform and the message it sends to the Jewish community and the community as a whole.”

He pointed out that Sarsour “has continually attacked the foundation of the State of Israel’s right to exist” and plays “racialized identity politics.”

“Equity means that members of all identity groups could attend without being harassed or targeted,” Mostyn added. “That includes Jews.”

Sarsour, who supports the BDS movement and believes Israel should be replaced with a single Arab-majority state, has been accused of antisemitism multiple times.

Last year, Sarsour attacked Jewish liberals as “some folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech.”

In 2017, she made a joint public appearance with Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist involved in the killing of two college students in a 1969 bombing in Jerusalem, and said she was “honored and privileged to be here in this space, and honored to be on this stage with Rasmea.”

In 2015, Sarsour spoke at a rally organized by antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and has since refused to distance herself from him.

Three years earlier, she tweeted, “Nothing is creepier than Zionism.” She later suggested that Zionist women could not be feminists.

(full article online)

Mayor of Winnipeg Calls on Groups to Cancel Appearance by Controversial Anti-Israel Activist Linda Sarsour

 

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Breidert is one of the main leaders of a pro-BDS group in the city of Bonn.

The Vienna based Jewish lawyer Michael Schnarch sent a letter of complaint to the museum's management on April 7."It all began with a boycott, the boycott of Jewish workers, Jewish businesses, Jewish doctors, and Jewish lawyers on April 1, 1933."

Schnarch , who is on the executive board on of the oldest and largest synagogue in Vienna, wrote in connection with the BDS campaign: "Boycott has nothing to do with peacefulness, nothing to do with non-violence.Today, this inglorious role is taken over by the so-called BDS movement, which aims to boycott all Israeli artists, all Israeli athletes, all Israeli institutions, all Israeli entrepreneurs, all Israeli scientists, all Israeli men and women."

Schnarch, who is the only child of survivors of the Holocaust, termed the event with Breidert "clearly antisemitic."

(full article online)

German museum cancels 'antisemitic' event with BDS advocate

 

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My Right Word: Answering Barghouti

 

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^^^^ Always so much name calling.

 

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Global Payment Giants Remove Account of BDS Organization Over Purported Links to Terrorists - The Tower

 

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US foodmaker Mondelēz seeks to tap into Israeli foodtech ecosystem

 

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Israel is boycotting Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.

 

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Top 10 Quotes from Texas Court Decision Blocking Anti-BDS Law

"Texas cannot suppress boycotts for Palestinian rights just because lawmakers don't like the message that Palestinians deserve equality,” said Palestine Legal Senior Staff Attorney Liz Jackson. "Neither can Congress, Arkansas, Kansas, Arizona - or any of the 27 states that have tried to restrict our right to boycott. Judge Pitman of the U.S. District Court in Texas got it right: there is no First Amendment exception when it comes to Palestine."

Judge Pitman’s decision, like those of federal judges in Kansas and Arizona, rightly recognizes the constitutional protections afforded to political boycotts, including those advocating for Palestinian rights, and the unconstitutionality of the anti-boycott law in Texas. Here are 10 gems from his decision:

1. Political boycotts are on the ‘highest rung’ of First Amendment values
2. Speech concerned with global affairs is constitutionally protected
3. The Texas law engages in content- and viewpoint-based restrictions
4. Texas wants to silence speech that it disagrees with
5. Texas is not actually interested in targeting discrimination
6. BDS does not discriminate based on national origin
7. BDS is nonviolent and opposed to all forms of discrimination
8. The vagueness of the Texas law makes it unenforceable
9. The Texas law is part of a concerted effort by the government to compel loyalty to Israel
10. There is no justification for these fundamentally unconstitutional laws