I understand the desire to help protect Israel, but if this passes, what other boycotts might be outlawed to protect some other interest? And who might that outlaw target?
Well, we could look at the text of the bill instead of relying on inflammatory Jew-hate rhetoric, couldn’t we?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/text
After reading the text, do you think it does what The Intercept claims it does?
While I certainly oppose any boycott of Israel, this law (if it really does what this story says it does) wouldn’t last five seconds before it would struck down by the Federal Courts on 1st amendment grounds.
BS.
After reading that I concluded that the entire article is BS.
Oh. The world. You know what the world can do?
Who are these Greenwald & Grim characters? islamist fronts?
As much as this sounds nice, it would never stand review before the Supreme Court.
Violates First Amendment for one.
DC Kabuki Theater...
Deal with it, ISLAMIC a$$holes......you started it, after all.
Good.
This is same blog used by that Jihad TX Female Hick that send classified NSA information to embarrass Trump. She was Jew hating / Pro Muslim terrorist far left wing groupie.
Why post crap from this left wing front group here again ..?
The point is again ?
No to this.
Boycott = speech.
Unless we want to find our boycott of Target to be found criminal one day.
[snarky comment]Yep. Those awful Israelis sure do rule American college campuses.[/snarky comment]
My take: The country needs to SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE regarding foreign affairs. If locals, states, counties, and other government entities are undercutting the federal government, they are undercutting this country.
Pass the bill!!!
Read the act. It is against the UN and foreign governments.
1st amendment freedom to peaceful assembly. This right is applied to the reason of commerce. Thus we have the right to join together for the exchange of goods and services. Further, just as we have both positive 1st amendment freedom of speech protections (you can say or support any cause) we also have negative (you can’t be forced to say or support a cause against your will) protections; the same applies to the freedom of peaceful assembly.
You have the right to assemble for commerce and you can not be forced to assemble for commerce. Now I will grant you that this right has been attacked of late by forcing private citizens to engage in unwanted commerce (christian bakery case and Obamacare) but that does not change the fact that it is a fundamental right under the Bill of Rights.