This is brilliant, you could have the gestasi inspecting everyone at the checkouts at a supermarket, and if you don’t buy a Sodastream cartridge, you get disappeared.
(Sodastream is an Israeli company, and used to manufacture their machines in an industrial park in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank)
Sodastream is an Israeli company
I didn’t know that. Good thing I’ve been boycotting their cylinders for years.
Well fuck, I just got one, I just assumed they were a german company since they’re so popular there
Same. But I switched to a (German) service that mails cylinders. https://sodabaer.de/
Not really any more, mostly though because other companies got into the business and aren’t charging an arm and a leg for carbon dioxide. Other manufacturers also aren’t pointlessly incompatible to each other.
Sparkling water, of course, is still ridiculously popular over here, and carbonating at home is convenient. Then, though: Tap water + soda stream co2 is more expensive than store-brand bottled water.
Well, if that isn’t freedom of speech, I don’t know what is. So much freedom, it oozes oil.
How is this to enforced. Is there to be a Israeli mandated amount of product that you would need to buy.
It’s already a law in huge chunks of the state.
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292
5 Democrats are cosponsors:
- Josh Gottheimer - NJ-5
- Jared Moskowitz - FLA-23
- Joseph Morrell - NY-25
- Donald Davis - NC-1
- Laura Gillen - NY-4
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/867/all-info
The American government platform. Don’t try to single out the Dems for this.
Maybe, but when they went too hard, he applied pressure. Trump offered to take over and help in the genocide (Middle East Riviera plan).
Democrats are not good, but unfortunately, those idiots are temporarily needed to dump out the fascists.
Politics in FPTP is a bit like a bus, and if you cannot get a bus where you need to go, get one in roughly the right direction.
The amount of “Genocide Joe” Lemmyers who helped cement genocide Trump are complicit in what is effectively a mass starvation. At least Biden tried to step in with supplies when Israel stopped last time.
Yes, which is why we should vote against democrats forever!!!
TRUMP 2028!!!
Edit: Y’All learned nothing from history.
German communist accelerationists went into the oven just like everyone else.
This is a cudgel to use against leftist activists when they are identified through social media skimming and illegal surveillance. The charge of antisemitic activity will be constructed parallel to their desire to brutalize them.
And they all get a stack of AIPAC cash to implement this too.
Here is the bill (it’s like two pages)
I’m not a lawyer so I could be reading this wrong but this law doesn’t apply directly to citizens, per se.
The law that it modifies basically makes it illegal for a company to contractually require you to boycott another company that you disagree with, but one that is allied toward the US.
For example, imagine you’re the CEO of ACME and you want to do business with Aperture Science, Inc. Aperture can’t, as a condition of you doing business with them, restrict you from working with Israeli companies.
That all being said, I do not trust this administration will use the law for it’s intended purpose and will instead use it as a club to beat people with.
Thank you. I’ve been so confused seeing this bill sent around with people saying it’s intended to punish any given individual for choosing to not buy from Israel. I could absolutely be wrong (I’m also not an attorney), but it definitely reads like you have to either be pressured or compensated by a foreign nation (or an IGO if this bill passes) to be impacted by this.
That said, your last point is completely fair…so maybe people are right to worry as though this will get used against them even if they’re not boycotting in league with a foreign power. With the folks in this admin, maybe it will 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve been screaming this since the days of digg: no one reads bills. I do for this very reason. Once you get used to reading “Washington speak”, you can get a general sense of what a bill is going to do and what it won’t do.
Given the hype, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a false flag where the alt right is trying to tire us out by having yet another thing to worry about.
We can only do so much. I’m not saying stopping Israel isn’t important. I am saying we need to pick and choose our battles. Of the things the Republicans are doing, it’s nothing.
Just ask all of the places that have already done this.
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292
