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> They know perfectly well that an individual right to boycott has never been in danger; They claim exactly the opposite: > Since 2016, 28 states have passed

> They know perfectly well that an individual right to boycott has never been in danger; They claim exactly the opposite: > Since 2016, 28 states have passed laws requiring individuals and businesses that receive government contracts – from substitute teachers to construction workers — to certify that they will not participate in boycotts of Israel or Israeli settlements in the West Bank. And they go on to provide examples of individuals being coerced to sign an anti-boycott pledge, not just corporations. Are you saying the ACLU is making all of that up?

Animatronio 4y ago
OP seems very incensed even before reading the article.
pie_flavor 4y ago
You appear to be misunderstanding 'individual right'. You have a right to boycott Israel in all of those states. The government just won't award you any contracts. You do not have a right to government contracts. This is very different from the government directly banning you from doing something. They then go on to imply the opposite, that this decision would have allowed banning the Alabama bus boycotts, which is flatly false. The example they gave of an individual was indeed an example of a law beyond the awarding government contracts - which was shrunk down in response to avoid the inevitable judgment of unconstitutionality. There was never any chance that the individual right was at risk.
- wtallis 4y ago
  The ACLU cited multiple examples, from more than one state, of individuals being coerced to sign anti-boycott pledges. Unless you are willing to actually refute those examples (plural!) as untrue, it is absurd for you to claim that there's no threat to the individual right to boycott. Simply asserting that all such overreaches will eventually and inevitably be corrected by the courts does not mean the rights are not at risk, and being infringed in the meantime, by multiple laws in multiple states.

Animatronio 4y ago

OP seems very incensed even before reading the article.

pie_flavor 4y ago

You appear to be misunderstanding 'individual right'. You have a right to boycott Israel in all of those states. The government just won't award you any contracts. You do not have a right to government contracts. This is very different from the government directly banning you from doing something. They then go on to imply the opposite, that this decision would have allowed banning the Alabama bus boycotts, which is flatly false. The example they gave of an individual was indeed an example of a law beyond the awarding government contracts - which was shrunk down in response to avoid the inevitable judgment of unconstitutionality. There was never any chance that the individual right was at risk.

wtallis 4y ago
The ACLU cited multiple examples, from more than one state, of individuals being coerced to sign anti-boycott pledges. Unless you are willing to actually refute those examples (plural!) as untrue, it is absurd for you to claim that there's no threat to the individual right to boycott. Simply asserting that all such overreaches will eventually and inevitably be corrected by the courts does not mean the rights are not at risk, and being infringed in the meantime, by multiple laws in multiple states.