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Goes unmentioned (of course) in the article, but I wonder how much of the massive drop in investment could be due to the BDS movement and the general worsening
by miguelazo 3y ago
Goes unmentioned (of course) in the article, but I wonder how much of the massive drop in investment could be due to the BDS movement and the general worsening situation of the Palestinians, even before Bibi tried to rig the Supreme Court.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIsn't BDS illegal in the US?
- miguelazo 3y agoOnly a few states, and the Constitutionality is dubious. Has only been tested very narrowly thus far: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/21/top-us-court-refused-to-review-anti-bds-law-heres-what-it-means https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/21/top-us-court-refuse...
- goodbyesf 3y ago> Only a few states Isn't it like 38 states? That's a lot more than 'a few'. > and the Constitutionality is dubious. And yet so many states have it. What's troubling is that so many of our politicians ( national and state ) openly support such an unconstitutional and anti-american law. Not to mention the media. China and russia's like "I'll have what Israel is having'.
- local_issues 3y agoFrom BDS? 0.001% Broke college student boycotting you doesn’t do much
- miguelazo 3y agoThere are entire cities that support it. Including New Orleans, as far back as 2018.
- local_issues 3y agoNew Orleans should probably worry about its murder rate instead of land politics in the Middle East.
- g8oz 3y ago….and the jurisdictions that try to make BDS support illegal? Should they mind their business as well?
- miguelazo 3y agoYou said it was just a bunch of “broke college students protesting”. You are completely wrong, but you truly “show your a$$” by making a remark like that about NOLA. Many other cities support BDS, especially internationally where there is more freedom of speech on this issue, including Dublin.
- selimthegrim 3y agoThis site loves dumping on NOLA because in their minds it's poor and there's no tech scene as far as they know, just Bourbon St
- miguelazo 3y agoYup, 100%. There's also a huge racist angle to it, they just like to dress it up with other things.
- invalidname 3y agoNone. BDS has been going on for decades and there was the far more powerful Arab pressure against Israel. Both had zero effect. This is an internal conflict related to the 3 factions of Israeli Jews colliding.
- r00fus 3y agoTo my understanding BDS is effectively neutered in the US. Israel lobby (AIPAC, DMfI) has spent hundreds of millions defanging any left-based dissent to Israeli policies and pushing for candidates that s don’t dare to say anything about Palestinians much less all the money sent to Israel.
- miguelazo 3y agoI woudn't go that far. Check out the book Spyfail for a good summary.