Oh you are sucking the jews butts.
Yeah, right,; I'm famous for kissing butt and stuff ... tard.
Why Democrats are fighting it
Two progressive senators were particularly outspoken in opposing the Rubio bill:
Sens. Bernie Sanders and
Dianne Feinstein. Neither of them has outright defended the BDS movement but instead attacked anti-BDS laws on free speech grounds.
“This Israel anti-boycott legislation would give states a free pass to restrict First Amendment protections for millions of Americans,” Feinstein wrote in a
press release. “Despite my strong support for Israel, I oppose this legislation because it clearly violates the Constitution.”
Consider
the case of Bahia Amawi, a speech therapist in Texas who had chosen to personally boycott Israeli-made goods. Amawi is not a state employee but an independent contractor who signed an annual agreement with the school district in the city of Pflugerville. Because Amawi was a contractor, her agreement with the state was subject to the state’s anti-boycott legislation, just as a contract with a major corporation would be.
This meant that Amawi — as the sole proprietor of her contracting business — was forced to pledge not to “take any action” that was “intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel.” Amawi did not want to sign away her right to boycott Israel, and she did not renew her contract with the Pflugerville schools. In essence, she was being forced to choose between her free expression and her livelihood. That, civil liberties advocates say, is a clear restriction on free speech.
“Sole proprietors can’t neatly distinguish between their individual actions and their business activities,” Brian Hauss, a staff attorney at the ACLU, told me. “What these laws say is that if you get even one cent of state money, you’re prohibited from boycotting across the board.”
The controversy over laws punishing Israel boycotts, explained
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Now I'm sure its a ok if you boycott Iranian goods, Palestinian goods, and even Lebanon's goods. I see one of my state senators was behind the drafting of the bill.
We can sanction everyone to death, Venezuela, Iran, use to be Iraq that we sanctioned to death , Syria, and who else, we have a long line of those we sanction.
Yet we support Israel, go figure, and send them our hard earned money.
