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oh, the Zionists got that covered already: 35 US states have passed laws/executive orders prohibiting boycotts of Israel.
by churchill 1y ago
oh, the Zionists got that covered already: 35 US states have passed laws/executive orders prohibiting boycotts of Israel.
- whatshisface 1y agoThose laws never made any sense to me from a constitutional or even a practical standpoint. What's being banned? Are they supposed to force you to buy things?
- esseph 1y agoThe latter. They effectively get exclusivity if they want.
- whatshisface 1y agoHow does that work?
- esseph 1y agoAh, this may require digging into the local politics of your US state and the particular law. Here's the thing, fighting this in court would be extremely politically inconvenient for a lot of people.
- churchill 1y agoTexas requires contractors to certify that they're not boycotting Israel; Florida maintains a public list of companies that boycott Israel and prohibits state investment in them; in Arkansas, the law has been upheld in federal court after a challenge.
- actionfromafar 1y agoIt's funny how state rights are so important, but only for certain kinds of rights. The extreme rights.
- churchill 1y agoIt's not supposed to make sense: lobbyists paid your politicians and now, you have to support Israel, or else... There's nothing more to it. Israel knows that with access to Western weapons, it will reliably win every confrontation with the Palestinians, just like in Rhodesia or Apartheid South Africa. The only thing that did both regimes in was sanctions, or boycotts. I believe they literally studied these nations. So, they want to preempt any attempt at boycotting Israel, because it's the only way they'd ever face reckoning for all the unspeakable atrocities they've committed against the palestinians.
- eviks 1y agoThe political opinions and political actions are what's being banned. You're free to silently buy whatever you want
- hermitcrab 1y agoSomeone from the Texas state government wanted to buy a $75 licence for my event planning software. Fine. Then they told me I had to sign an agreement that I wouldn't boycot Israel. Ridiculous. It's none of their business. I refused to sign it and didn't get the sale.
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- axblount 1y agoArizona has a similar law regarding the Uyghurs. Every contact needs a clause that says no Uyghur "forced labor" was used.
- unwise-exe 1y agoThat seems a rather different sort of declaration though? "I did not participate in this harm" vs "I will not speak against this group".
- hermitcrab 1y agoThat is very different though. The Texas example is: promise not to boycott a country that is currently committing genocide. The Arizona example is: promise that you aren't benefitting from a current genocide.