3 ms·
Related: [Names and faces of Harvard students linked to an anti-Israel statement were plastered on mobile billboards and online sites](https://edition.cnn.com/2
by botanical 3y ago
Related: [Names and faces of Harvard students linked to an anti-Israel statement were plastered on mobile billboards and online sites](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/business/harvard-doxxing-truck-israel-hamas-statement/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/business/harvard-doxxing-...)
Calling Israel an Apartheid State seems to be dangerous to people's liberty. What happened to freedom of speech? In the US, it is a federal crime to boycott Apartheid Israel.
- notadev 3y agoI think similar when I read stories like “police investigating use of slurs in local high school” or “police are investigating racial flyers” or some such…when did any of this become illegal? It’s not illegal in the US to have unpopular and or bigoted views.
- GoodJokes 3y ago[dead]
- SenAnder 3y ago> In the US, it is a federal crime to boycott Apartheid Israel. To elaborate on what seems like a wild claim - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws: Most anti-BDS laws have taken one of two forms: contract-focused laws requiring government contractors to promise that they are not boycotting Israel; and investment-focused laws, mandating public investment funds to avoid entities boycotting Israel. [..] The Anti-Boycott Act of 2018 [..] does not target boycotts against Israel specifically, but makes it illegal to “comply with, further, or support any boycott fostered or imposed by any foreign country, against a country which is friendly to the United States” [..] and as the Office of Antiboycott Compliance notes “The Arab League boycott of Israel is the principal unsanctioned foreign boycott that U.S. persons must be concerned with today.”