The Tyranny of the State: Punishments of Israel Boycotters and Those Who Won't Pledge Blind Oaths to Support Israel

The U.S. has a long history of being influenced by the Israel lobby. You can find documentaries detailing the trail of powerful influence within the Unites States and abroad. The most recent move by Zionist powers in America is to criminalize boycotts against Israel.

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They deviousness of government crooks is shown in how they are trying to force it's adoption: including it as part of the spending bill. If the spending bill isn't accepted, it could cause the government to come to a stall. This exact manipulative power playing in Washington has been shown in the series House of Cards. If no spending is accepted, no one does the work for free, and nothing happens in government. It's holding the government hostage.

The Israel Anti-Boycott Act was originally sponsored by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and is being pushed by Democratic leadership. But it's not being accepted due to the violations of the First Amendment. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are trying to get it accepted by sneaking it into the spending bill.

They are trying to bypass public scrutiny and opposition tot he bill by forcing it into must-pass larger agendas like the spending bill. I shit you not, this is exactly what was done in House of Cards to hold the political process hostage. "Accept our bill or not spending is approved".

Previous versions of the anti-boycott bill tried to make it illegal and potentially face jail time for American companies to boycott Israel, or any nation not approved fro boycott by the United States. The federal government and their officials could punish people for their politically unpopular free speech or actions.

The ACLU warns:

This is a full-scale attack on Americans’ First Amendment freedoms. Political boycotts, including boycotts of foreign countries, have played a pivotal role in this nation’s history — from the boycotts of British goods during the American Revolution to the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa. And in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware, the Supreme Court made clear that the First Amendment protects the right to participate in political boycotts. Although the bill states that nothing in the act “shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the Constitution of the United States,” such hollow assurances do not undo its core purpose of penalizing First Amendment activities and silencing speech.

Federal courts have blocked previous state attempts at anti-boycott laws which indeed violate Americans’ constitutional First Amendment rights.

Texas is already on the bandwagon to punish people, not for boycotting Israel, but for not swearing an oath to support Israel. The Intercept reports on a Texas elementary school speech pathologist who has been fired for refusing to sign a pro-Israel oath:

A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told she can no longer work with the public school district after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. A lawsuit on her behalf was filed early Monday morning in a federal court in the Western District of Texas alleging a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.

The Intercept demonstrates the tyranny of this policy against free speech, as you can be a political activist and speak against anything, except Israel:

In order to obtain contracts in Texas, then, a citizen is free to denounce and work against the United States, to advocate for causes that directly harm American children, and even to support a boycott of particular U.S. states, such as was done in 2017 to North Carolina in protest of its anti-LGBT law. In order to continue to work, Amawi would be perfectly free to engage in any political activism against her own country, participate in an economic boycott of any state or city within the U.S., or work against the policies of any other government in the world — except Israel.

Hopefully Amawi wins her wrongful termination lawsuit. And who has to pay for the state's tyranny? Taxpayers.

This shit is absurd. When you learn about lobbying in Washington and across America and the world, you might think they all have power to influence policy and laws. But no lobby comes close to the power of the Israel lobby it seems. Local states, and now the federal government state power, seem to be trying to pass a holy (or unholy) commandment that states: "thou shalt support Israel no matter what".

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