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Three words - Boycott, Divest, Sanction. If BDS didn't work, they wouldn't be trying to ban it.
by fuck_AI 1y ago
Three words - Boycott, Divest, Sanction.
If BDS didn't work, they wouldn't be trying to ban it.
- churchill 1y agooh, 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.
- thenaturalist 1y ago[flagged]
- 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.
- boston_clone 1y agoSee also: https://apnews.com/general-news-be7a3c77beeb4b95bfbdf0b27ff78397 https://apnews.com/general-news-be7a3c77beeb4b95bfbdf0b27ff7...
- JamesAdir 1y ago[flagged]
- boston_clone 1y agoOther countries don’t enjoy unconstitutional protection from free speech activities in the majority of states. In fact, no country enjoys that protection other than Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
- JamesAdir 1y agoThose laws aren't about free speech but about boycotting a specific country, if we want to be precise.
- saubeidl 1y agoIf money is speech, then boycotting is using said speech.
- boston_clone 1y agoThen let’s be precise and look at how it’s been applied - https://apnews.com/general-news-be7a3c77beeb4b95bfbdf0b27ff78397 https://apnews.com/general-news-be7a3c77beeb4b95bfbdf0b27ff7...
- thenaturalist 1y ago[flagged]
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- danbruc 1y agoI agree with the means, one has to but economic pressure on Israel, but the BDS movement holds some non-viable positions.
- School-Cotton 1y agoLike what? (Honest question).
- ars 1y agoThe head of the BDS supports the expulsion and/or murder of all Jews in Israel. Quote: Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement, made that perspective clear: “Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead. But someone has to issue an official death certificate before the rotting corpse is given a proper burial and we can all move on and explore the more just, moral and therefore enduring alternative for peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine: the one-state solution.” Barghouti also opposed a bi-national Arab and Jewish state: “I am completely and categorically against binationalism … because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land and, therefore, we have to accommodate both national rights. I am completely opposed to that.”
- School-Cotton 1y agoHe wants a unitary democratic state with equal rights for Jews and Arabs and the right of return for Palestinian refugees abroad and their descendants. Is that too idealistic to ever happen? Yes, probably. But it’s nowhere near what you’re claiming he says.
- ars 1y agoThat's the "sanitized" version of what he wants. He actually wants the Jews gone, it's pretty obvious from the other words he has said, and especially from his outright refusal to condemn attacks.
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