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So - let's say that a business owner in Texas thinks BDS is at best misguided, and at worst anti-semitic, and does not want to align themselves with them. Howe
by mattzito 5y ago
So - let's say that a business owner in Texas thinks BDS is at best misguided, and at worst anti-semitic, and does not want to align themselves with them. However, they also believe that the Israeli government is creating a humanitarian crisis and wants to protest, however symbolically, so they decide they're not going to do business with any Israeli company who directly does business with the Israeli government. In this case, they're not part of BDS, they are boycotting based on their sincere beliefs, and this law constrains their speech regardless.
It's clear that BDS is the precipitating cause of this law, and so it's reasonable to look at BDS as the way that this was put into place, but the law itself doesn't have anything to do with BDS, and so it's not relevant to talk about BDS in the context of its effects on people today.