Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arkansas, Minnesota, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Carolina, Utah, Missouri, Idaho, West Virginia, Colorado, Mississippi and New Hampshire.
You excluded the most important part of that sentence. The part that explains the law:
The states that have passed legislation making it illegal for state agencies to work with companies that boycott Israel include…
There’s no law stopping you as a citizen from boycotting, or recommending boycotting a business. This law targets business boycotts exclusively.
I guess business owners and government workers, who are all citizens themselves, don’t have Constitutional rights any more. Yay?
You can act and voice your opinion as a private citizen, even if you own a business or work for the government. The law affects state funding from businesses that boycott investments.
“states where boycotting Israel is illegal” is a sensationalist lie. The article says what these laws actually do
have passed legislation making it illegal for state agencies to work with companies that boycott Israel
So it’s all about contracts. That’s still bad but it’s nowhere near as bad as the headlines implies. A law making it illegal to boycott Israel would be laughably unconstitutional.
I think laughably unconstitutional seems to be what the scotus is on track to say is perfectly ok, so I think it’s the constitution that is laughable at this point.
I’d be shocked if such a law even made it to the supreme court before being struck down
you are right, if PayPal, Stripe and MasterCard did the same thing, the effects would be way worse!
older draft
I interpenetrated the bill to mean, “if an organization (doesn’t matter what it is, waste management, orphanage, tax collector, money pit, whatever…) endorses the BDS political policy in any way, (say, a banner on their website) they will be cut off from government money”. I assume your company can be as pro-Israel as you want it to be. If I’m wrong, let me know.
We’re not gonna make it… are we?
I’d like to share a revelation I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
I don’t know. Can you really classify us as just a virus or cancer? Aren’t they known for only destruction and sadness?
What about all the joy, happyness, and good we’ve broight to the universe. Sure, it may not be as prevalent but there’s small good deeds happening all around. Not just random people helping other random people, but beautiful pieces of art, songs that millions sing, books people remember and talk about, video games that bring far apart friends closser together, sports, dancing, DnD, pets, flower gardens, the list goes on.
Yes we consume too much, but we’re no ALL bad. Parasites perhaps, but not full blown viruses IMHO
Stand up and sing that bit about the land of the free
