ACLU Falsely Claims that Anti-BDS Legislation Limits Free Speech

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Sharia speech prohibitions are just fine with the ACLU. Stopping the neo-Nazi boycotting of Jews, on the other hand, is something they have to act against.

Islamic supremacists and their leftist lapdogs are norming systematic Jew-hatred worldwide under the euphemistically labeled BDS movement — a nazi-esque movement to alienate, isolate and destroy the Jewish state. Worse still, it is funded by wealthy liberal American Jews, as I have documented here in numerous exposes. And now it has the Democrat Party leadership on its side, as well as leftist pressure groups such as the ACLU. It’s unconscionable how the left is lining up systematically against Israel while ignoring the actual human rights abuses committed by numerous other countries. It reveals the Jew-hatred that is at the bottom of all this.

“ACLU Falsely Claims That Anti-Boycott Legislation Limits Free Speech,” TheTower.org, January 7, 2019 (thanks to Mark):

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), one time the nation’s premier civil rights organization, has falsely characterized legislation that would penalize companies that boycott Israel as limiting free speech.

A letter posted at the organization’s website claimed that the bipartisan legislation, which supports state laws barring contracts with businesses that boycott Israel, “flies in the face of the First Amendment’s guarantee that the state should impose no law infringing on the right to speak freely and to associate with those of like mind.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R – Fla.), the main sponsor of the bill, defended his bill on Twitter, explaining, “My bill doesn’t punish any political activity. It protects the right of local & state govts that decide to no longer do business with those who boycott #Israel. So boycotting #Israel is a constitutional right,but boycotting those participating in #BDS isn’t?”

In July 2017, legal expert Eugene Kontrovich explained that the proposed legislation was nothing more than an updating of existing legislation that prohibited American companies from participating in the Arab boycott of Israel. However, given the efforts of the United Nations Humans Rights Council to establish a blacklist of companies doing business in the West Bank, Kontorovich argued that the law needed updating.

“The old law already forbids ‘support’ for foreign state boycotts of Israel, and the many regulations enacted pursuant to the law already define ‘support’ to be limited to ‘certain specified actions’ that go well beyond merely ‘speech’ support,” Kontorovich wrote. “The new bill does not change or alter the meaning of ‘support.’ It simply clarifies the list of foreign boycotts covered by the law.”…

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MitchHill
MitchHill
5 years ago

Anti bds or bds?? Both are free speech. It’s obvious antiisrael/ antisemitic . We know their intention, but anything goes. Bds, islamophobia – an invention of muslim brotherhood , propagated to get their foothold into our free society , much like termites do to eat us , and weaken USA , from the inside out. This is illustrative of muzlims using the left aclu and other groups to get to their targeted goal, a sharia America. The left are their stooges.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

Unfortunately the left is gaining ground. The midterm result is evidence of that.

ACLU Quadrupled Membership, Gained $120 Million In Donations After Trump’s Election

All told, the group has filed 83 lawsuits against the Trump administration
since the last election.
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By Nick Visser
07/05/2018

The American Civil Liberties Union more than quadrupled its number of paying members, from 400,000 to 1.84 million, in the 15 months after Donald Trump was elected president, according to a report in The New York Times.

Donations to the nonprofit group have also skyrocketed. According to the ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, the organization has raised nearly $120 million since the 2016 presidential election. Online donations in previous years had totaled just $3 million to $5 million annually.

“Until Trump most of our support came from people who have been with us since we challenged Nixon,” Romero told the Times. “Now we’re kind of cool. Cool’s not a word generally associated with us.”

The ACLU has been on the front lines of more than a hundred legal actions against Trump administration policies, including the White House’s series of travel bans on the citizens of several Muslim-majority nations. The group has also challenged the Justice Department’s family separation policies, Trump’s voter fraud commission and the president’s reversal of an Obama-era contraception mandate.

All told, the group has taken 170 “Trump-related legal actions” since he took office, including 83 lawsuits, according to the Times.

Other left-leaning groups have also seen a surge in donations after various Trump administration actions. Planned Parenthood reported an “unprecedented” level of new support shortly after the election and has become a frequent place for high-profile donations meant to counter the White House. And James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, gave $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League last year in a public rebuke to the president.

Romero told the Times that a large portion of the money it’s received in recent months has gone toward hiring more lawyers, but he stressed that the Justice Department’s war chest will always been orders of magnitude larger than a non-profit.

“We’re the biggest of the advocacy groups, but even if we go from 300 to 500 lawyers, we are still tiny,” Romero told the outlet. “The power of the federal government can’t be overestimated.”

Read the full story at The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/magazine/inside-the-aclus-war-on-trump.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aclu-membership-skyrockets-trump_us_5b3db75de4b07b827cbd69b8

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Some of the dumb defunct socialist causes that we have survived:
– Beatniks, Malcolm X, The Mambo, Cool Shades, Bad Poetry, Free Love, VD, Crabs, Poppers, Eldridge Cleaver, Ghetto Fires, Love Canal, Maharishi, Return of the Ice Age, LSD, Love Beads Afro Haircuts, Timothy Leary, Kung Fu, Mantras, Nehru jackets, Ribbed Condoms, Kama Sutra Positions, Fast Motorcycles, Long Hospital Stays…

Kundalini Yoga, China Syndrome, Black-exploitation Films, Jiggle TV, Dashikis, Platform Shoes, Cowrie Beads, Glam Rock, Nuclear Winter, Tofu Hot Dogs, Polyester Shirts, Killer Bees, Primal Scream Therapy, Blow-up Sex Dolls, White Guilt, French Cinema, Leisure Suits, Acid Rain, Elvis Impersonators, Oil Spills, Gremlins, Princess Leia, Ozone Holes, Veggie-Burgers, Steel Belted Tires, Big Hair, Soaps, Bald Women, Cigars, Grunge, Leather Underwear, Hooker Boots, Islamists, Obama Worship, Confederate Statues, Knock-out Game, Thumb Rings, Split Tongues…
– sorry, all gone now…
– but WE are still here…
– and Happy New Year!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Too familiar… Happy New Year too!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I don’t know about cigars being gone. Praise the Lord they’re not. I have hundreds stocked within my humidor … yes, hundreds.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Well, cigars are no longer cool
– and I hope you have given up on clogs for men
– and Happy New Year!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Pipes haven’t been cool, since the seventies. I still hit ’em hard. Never had any platform shoes. Although, some of my Japanese sandals resemble clogs, they’re very rarely worn.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

But, at least you gave up tofu hot dogs
– I hope

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I had, up until this point, never heard of tofu hotdogs. I don’t get around much anymore.
Happy New Year to you and yours.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

tofu hotdogs were going to save the planet
– by reducing global meat consumption
– but world poverty is being cured instead
– by the spread of the democratic free-enterprise republic
– global poverty as a percentage of the population
– is declining rapidly
– and it remains bad in countries that reject
– the democratic free-enterprise republic

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Tofu hotdogs? Is that why they had the big rally in the bean market a while back?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Har har
– tofu is made from soybeans
– and that is mainly an Asian thing
– and tofu hotdogs died out in the 1970s
– along with Glam Rock

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The bean rally of ’73 set a high for beans (12.90) that wasn’t taken out until 2007, where we finally had “beans in the teens”.
Musta been those ol’ tofu hotdogs.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Well, OK then…

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

Agree. Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj

Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and oppose their Left/Liberal supporters !
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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

The ACLU fosters hate speech and is totally UNAMERICAN.
Unfortunately, liberal Jews have allowed MUSLIMS in to hijack what the ACLU once stood for.

ACLU finally admits it’s really only interested in protecting speech it agrees with
By Robert Laurie —— June 22, 2018

ACLU finally admits it’s really only interested in protecting speech it agrees with

Anyone who’s spent any amount of time following national politics is aware of the capricious way the ACLU has pursued its alleged goal of supporting civil liberty. It’s always been clear that there were political motivations impacting their decisions and, in recent years, they’ve done less and less to argue otherwise. Now, they’ve dropped the pretense altogether.
.
New guidelines make it virtually impossible to argue that the outfit is much more than an ideological advocacy group.

From the Wall Street Journal:

The American Civil Liberties Union has explicitly endorsed the view that free speech can harm “marginalized” groups by undermining their civil rights. “Speech that denigrates such groups can inflict serious harms and is intended to and often will impede progress toward equality,” the ACLU declares in new guidelines governing case selection and “Conflicts Between Competing Values or Priorities.”

This is presented as an explanation rather than a change of policy, and free-speech advocates know the ACLU has already lost its zeal for vigorously defending the speech it hates. ACLU leaders previously avoided acknowledging that retreat, however, in the apparent hope of preserving its reputation as the nation’s premier champion of the First Amendment.

This isn’t particularly surprising. It’s been obvious, for decades, that they weren’t particularly interested in defending actual civil liberties. They generally don’t care for cases that would support the individual right to bear arms, are picky about which 1st Amendment cases they champion, and have (at best) a cagey relationship with the U.S Constitution. As they once stated in reference to their 2nd Amendment position: “like all ACLU policies, it reflects the ACLU’s own understanding of the Constitution and civil liberties.”

So what the Constitution actually says is less important than what they feel like it says.

What’s shocking here is how up front they’ve decided to be about their disinterest in the equal application of the 1st Amendment. Gone is the era of “tolerating the speech you hate to protect the speech you love.” These days about “impact of proposed speech,” “advancing goals,” and the ACLU’s now-nonexistent “credibility.”

The 2018 guidelines claim that “the ACLU is committed to defending speech rights without regard to whether the views expressed are consistent with or opposed to the ACLU’s core values, priorities and goals.” But directly contradicting that assertion, they also cite as a reason to decline taking a free-speech case “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values.”

In selecting speech cases to defend, the ACLU will now balance the “impact of the proposed speech and the impact of its suppression.” Factors like the potential effect of the speech on “marginalized communities” and even on “the ACLU’s credibility” could militate against taking a case. Fundraising and communications officials helped formulate the new guidelines.

In other words, it’s not about pure free speech or defense of the 1st Amendment. It’s about the ACLU, its goals, protecting its preferred classes, and – of course – fundraising.

All of this, of course, is absolutely within their rights. If they want to abandon the idea that they support free expression, they’re free to do so. In fact, we’d like to thank the ACLU for admitting what we’ve known all along.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/aclu-finally-admits-its-really-only-interested-in-protecting-speech-it-agre

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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

The ACLU and others Progressive/Marxist organizations use the First Amendment as a ruse, a big lie to meet their totalitarian ambitions. The objective is the validation of boycotting Jews, after all, antisemitism is the cornerstone of the Progressivists’ neo-Nazi manifesto.

Whether it is the ACLU, the mainstream media, or the fetid bigots, the Democrats, the endorsement of anti-Semitic actions are the mere tip of the proverbial iceberg. Ignorance is bliss, as it was before Hitler’s, Nazi Germany’s, Nuremberg Laws. They are stripping Jews of citizen’s/Human Rights via a feeble boycotting of Jewish businesses and individuals. Propagandizing, like today, Jews as vermin, perversity, pedophilia, and Untermenschen, backstabbing; the list is endless.

Will the likes of the anti-Semitic Democrats, ACLU, MSM, Globalists/Soros, not to overlook the Progressive/Fascists grand-alliance with Islam initiate an American variant of the Nuremberg Laws? The odds are highly in favor of their doing so if Americans and others choose apathy over the acceleration of anti-Semitism in America and abroad.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

The ideological roots of freedom of speech are a vehicle for justice.
Justice means to fight against the unjust Muhammad-law & war.
The unjust Muhammadist texts lure with motifs of justice & truth while leading to a tyranny of injustice & beliefs.
Justice means to free the atheists from Muhammadist prisons,
to free the African slaves from enslavement in Saudi Arabia to Mauritania*,
to protect the girls from Muhammadist clitodirectomy
& to free freedom of speech from Muhammadist censorship.
When Bernie Sanders promotes the unjust Muhammadist tyranny around Israel & Farakhan chants “Death to America” in the unjust Muhammadist tyranny of Iran they commit a crime because the unjust Muhammadist tyranny is unjust & therefore criminal.
*Africans are enslaved in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Emerging, dumbbell, snowflake left
We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is … Not At All What We Had Expected

By Dave Merrick —— January 8, 2019

I am seeing more and more articles popping up confirming that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not the dumb girl from the Bronx she pretended to be on her way to getting elected. The new Congresswoman for New York’s 14th congressional district is now only loosely maintaining the ditzy ruse she and the DNC cooked up in order to attract more of the emerging, dumbbell, snowflake left. Canada Free Press scooped America when we called total BS on her act, in the article, “The Manchurian Counterfeit”, which ran November 20 of last year. She is NOT stupid, folks. She is DECEPTIVE. When she staged the hammy protest outside of Pelosi’s office last November, I am certain she had cleared the whole matter with Nancy before it ever happened. But the morons it was supposed to impress completely swallowed the bait.

New improved ‘Muslim’ – you understand. She swears like a sailor

The democrats have other bright new stars on the horizon, as well. One of two, brand-new, never before opened, Muslim Congress people, her name is Rashida Tlaib, is another perfect lure. This is the new improved ‘Muslim’ – you understand. She swears like a sailor, and doesn’t pretend to hide behind a veil in the presence of her male ‘superiors’ – with which the grand mufti would ordinarily take issue (if he weren’t so much more delighted in how she is totally helping to deceive the infidels). She and Linda Sarsour are two of the hot new ‘designer Muslimahs’ that 21st century aggressive Islam is injecting into an unwary western world full of stupid people who believe that cult is just a lot of robes and romance. It has not so much to do with recruiting new Muslims (though that is proving to be a big part of its success). It is continued programming for the standing army Obama’s AG Lynch officially introduced at the Charlotte riots in September, 2016. It is all designed to get the ‘religion’ into the West apart from its aherents having to become any less Muslim. Just as the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood proudly declared, they are not here (in the West) to assimilate. They are here to take over. The left is not Islamic, by the way. They are simply wanting more trouble for their opposition. And mad Muslims are just as useful as mad Mexicans – ALL are simply more ‘useful idiots.’

I know most all of you have heard about Congresswoman Tlaib’s shamelessly calling our president a ‘motherf*cker’. She is part of the new face of the DNC, the bait that will snare the ‘bold new world’ that they are now cornering – just as they did with the moronic hippies fifty years ago. Only this time it’s going to work much better. These days most of the parents raising the self-declared prodigies that constitute the new hope of America don’t have the foggiest notion of how warped their kids are. And that is very much because the longhaired brats who started this experiment were just as clueless. With little more than a kiss for luck, the peace generation launched their successive progeny from the same awesome foundation that we were sold would never fail us – “sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll”. Yet some of us, along the way, have been given the grace to see what a huge lie, from the very real devil, that was.

The new left, still hiding behind the labels of ‘liberal’ and ‘democrat’, is cleaning house

There is no way to retrace our steps and go back and correct anything. We are here. Things are completely out of control and will run their course. And if you can’t see that, you are as clueless as the neighbors of Noah who stood by daily and mocked him as he and his children built the ark. And our ‘silent majority’ – the majority that can barely raise itself out of its recliner and put down the remote long enough to regularly make it to the polls – have remained silent so long that they are now effectively silenced. (C’mon, folks! If dead people can make it to the polls – by the tens of thousands – why can’t you?) The silent majority had to be prodded into action even after a full eight years of Barack Obama. Once that miracle happened, and we, sure enough, had a real president in office, they sat out the midterms and again must have phoned in their parts instead of inconveniencing themselves to the point of casting actual ballots.

The new left, still hiding behind the labels of ‘liberal’ and ‘democrat’, is cleaning house. Hillary Clinton is now just as relevant as the silent majority. But while the conservatives are apparently consoling themselves in their renewed and continued silence, Hillary is being replaced by the awesome dudes and dudettes of the brave new democrats. It is simply the most elementary marketing, for crying out loud! The ‘think tanks’ of the democrats are nothing more than the boardrooms of their partners the liberal media/entertainment empire. HELLO?! They cater to the young! Is that so hard to understand? Didn’t we begin to learn something from David Hogg? Apparently not. His gay drama led the nation in walkouts that simultaneously fired up the allegiance of silver ponytails who convinced themselves long ago that they would never need to grow up. And Joy and Whoopi make dizzying incomes herding those cattle. And all the while, conservative Christian/Republicans enter into arguments with devils like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Robert Mueller, and so on.

Jesus absolutely knew the tactics of his adversary. And that’s why he told us not to argue with him. (Matt. 5:25) Satan loves to argue. Because while you are bickering with him, he is setting your house on fire and robbing you blind. And that is exactly what has happened to what’s left of America. The hideous left, led by the prince of darkness himself, suckered us away from the strength and safety we had in keeping our eyes upon God and his word and the righteousness He had assigned us to. And we began arguing with ungodly people instead of staying our course as God has told us. And all those arguments – over abortion, evolution, sexual perversion, atheism, etc. – are just distractions to get our energies spent and wasted in all the wrong directions. For example, how much of a genius does it take to recognize that men and women constitute the only two genders on earth, and that those two groups are especially suited for one another in every respect? If you really want to argue with that newsflash, here is your sign.

Nevertheless, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and the whole new chorus of similar numbskull politicians are preparing to take the helm. And they will do just that if the sons and daughters of the silent majority don’t get up off their dead centers and do the work required to keep that from happening. Today ridicule is the strongest weapon the left has. And they are using it at every opportunity. Since I haven’t been a network-television watcher for over 30 years, I am always amazed – absolutely shocked – at the shameless, blatant, anti-Trump cutdown sessions that apparently pass for news and commentary these days from the liberal media people. They no longer report facts. They just twist appearances. But what they are doing is working with the sheep who are frightened to death of not blending in with the herd. That is why Cortez and Tlaib will work so well as 21st century politicians. All they have to do is act as dumb and homogenized as the people they are leading. And they will have all the kids – young and old – eating out of their hands. And we are right there – right now.

America is being taken down, strip mined, by an elite few criminal minds

What remains, to me, as the biggest heartbreak, is that we have a real man, a real president in office – FINALLY – and the dumbbells are prevailing now more than ever. It’s because of a liberal-owned Internet that is slowly beginning to shut off the lights on the people who aren’t part of their vision. The ex-Marine, Brian Kolfage, who started “We The People Will Fund The Wall”, has watched his project balloon to a hair under $20 million after just three weeks on gofundme.com. How many of my good readers are even aware of this effort? My wife and I contributed some money and signed the petition in favor of the wall which can only benefit our United States. But afterward, try as I might, I could not share on Facebook what I had done. Lots of people gave me the same report. I mean $20 million given by about 300,000 people in three weeks – in mostly $5 to $10 increments! When the left does fundraisers, most of the plebeians just sit and watch while the big money rolls in by the millions given by the handful of billionaires who own most of the Internet. It’s that way because the elite oligarchs all want to be a part of the dictators’ club that happens at the top echelon of socialism. Can you imagine what this fundraiser would have gathered by now, if the word was allowed to spread to ALL Americans – JUST AS IT SHOULD??!!

In writing this, I bit off more than I could chew this time. The problems are just too big and intricate to fully address. But America is being taken down, strip mined, by an elite few criminal minds. But the real problem is always centered upon the lousy fallen nature of mankind – what the Son of God suffered and died to save us from. And things are going down precisely as He told us they would. In the meantime, many of us have been tricked into believing that stupid is closest to our roots. And again, if only America can become a third world socialist nation, we will no longer be white supremacist racists. That is exactly what is being fed to the sheep now as the new gospel. And in that new, demonic ‘gospel’ people are being told that Donald Trump is the devil. He is not.

The most pitiful of all stupid politicians, Hank Johnson

The most pitiful of all stupid politicians, Hank Johnson, one of several democrat leaders who can only thank affirmative-action for their holding office, made the dumbest remark calling Trump supporters a bunch of busted alcoholics and drug abusers. And this is just more of what I have been talking about. Just be as dumb as the people who put you into office: That’s all it takes from this crew. And it is working because Christian conservatives can’t seem to get their act together.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-…-not-at-all-what-we-had-expected

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Tune into Trump TONIGHT!

Trump from his twitter account::
I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.

You can get unfiltered facts for a change.

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago

Eugene Kontrovich said:

…the proposed legislation was nothing more than an updating of existing legislation that prohibited American companies from participating in the Arab boycott of Israel. However, given the efforts of the United Nations Humans Rights Council to establish a blacklist of companies doing business in the West Bank, Kontorovich argued that the law needed updating…

However, such legislation is already in violation of prior Supreme Court precedent, namely NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Company (458 U.S. 886) from 1982. The government does not have the authority to punish someone, individual or corporate, merely for boycotting a foreign entity, because that foreign entity does not have Constitutional rights under the USA Constitution. (Actual interference with commerce between the USA and Israel is different and not protected by the First Amendment.)

As such, Kontrovich is wrong and the ACLU is right. A challenge to such a measure would invoke the aforementioned 1982 case. One can be pro-Israel and oppose anti-BDS legislation, as the USA is a country of a Constitution!

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

I think you are missing the point. No one is being prevented from boycotting Israel, or anything else. What they can not do is involve the state in that decision. Both Koontz, and Amawi have decided not to sign the boycott clause on principal. Neither of them has a business that is in a position to effect Israel. This is “pure political theater”. https://reason.com/volokh/2018/12/18/everyone-is-misreporting-the-texas-bds-l/print

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

That boycott clause has no authority to be mandated.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“just like local governments require contractors to certify that they adhere to many other state laws, such as anti-discrimination laws and financial propriety laws, they also must certify, in compliance with state law, that their business does not boycott Israel.” https://reason.com/volokh/2018/12/18/everyone-is-misreporting-the-texas-bds-l/print

The ACLU, and CAIR challenges to the anti-BDS laws on first amendment grounds will fail. There is no there there; only Obama judges.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Morons over look Israel is an ally, not a foe as Muslims see them.
You don’t boycott an ally except Muslims HATE Jews and Israel.

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Multiple judges have already disagreed. Schumer is right to torpedo this measure…popularity be damned!

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

Judges is Arizona, and Kansas have misapplied the law. The challenges on 1st amendment grounds will fail. It is clearly a PR campaign. You might find this of interest. https://zachorlegal.org/

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Can you name an appellate decision going in their favor?

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

The Arizona and Kansas cases involved Obama judges, and will be overturned. You might find this helpful. https://zachorlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zachor-Amicus-Brief-A.pdf

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“In the DOJ RICO Prosecution Request, amicus
outlined the structure the BDS National Committee (“BNC”), the governing body of the BDS Movement, and documented that a founding (and current) member of the BNC is the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, a coalition of prominent Palestinian terror organizations that includes five currently designated
foreign terror organizations: Hamas, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“PFLP”), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Palestinian Liberation Front.
This constitutes a direct connection and control relationship between terror organizations and the governing body of BDS. ” https://zachorlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zachor-Amicus-Brief-A.pdf

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Who is fostering the boycott is irrelevant to the validity of anti-BDS laws; that can be addressed separately. Are you in fact a member of Zachor Legal?

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“The core of the district court’s First Amendment analysis in the current case is based on a misreading and distortion of Claiborne. The district court impermissibly expanded Claiborne’s holding to provide absolute First Amendment protection for all “…collective boycotting activities undertaken to achieve social, political or economic ends.” ”

This restatement of Claiborne’s holding utterly ignores the critical fact that the boycotters in that case were acting to protest a “…social structure that had denied them rights to equal treatment and respect.”

Had the district court limited its summary of Claiborne’s holding to activities undertaken to vindicate the rights of the boycotters (that is, a primary boycott), it would have been accurate. The text quoted below, from Claiborne at note 49, directly contradicts the district court’s expansion of Claiborne’s scope:

“[w]e need not decide in this case the extent to which a narrowly tailored statute designed to prohibit certain forms of anticompetitive conduct or certain types of secondary pressure may restrict protected First Amendment activity. No such statute is involved in this case. Nor are we presented with a boycott designed to secure aims that are themselves prohibited by a valid state law.”

Put simply, the Supreme Court stated that its decision did not necessarily apply to laws restricting boycott activity when the boycotts had any of the following characteristics:
(i) boycotts in furtherance of anticompetitive behavior;
(ii) secondary boycotts; and
(iii) boycotts that are the subject of otherwise valid state laws.

The district court ignored this critical, explanatory three-part test in Claiborne and instead arrived at a statement of the case that is nowhere to be found in the Supreme Court’s opinion and, in fact, is in opposition to what that opinion did say. https://zachorlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zachor-Amicus-Brief-A.pdf

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Here’s the problem…I don’t see that law as valid since government cannot discriminate against those expressing differing opinions of entities outside of US boundaries. Had this been dealing with Americans of Israeli origin, rather than Israel as a country, with which only the State Department can deal (other dealings with Israel would violate Buy America principles), then there would be a valid appeal case. I expect the appellate courts to toss Zachor Legal’s argument.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

Do you know what a secondary boycott is?

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Yes and that’s still protected by the First Amendment. A lot of laws will be having their constitutionality challenged.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“If a boycott is an attempt to influence political reform, it will likely be considered to be protected by the First Amendment. If the boycott’s goal is economic, however, the court will likely consider it as purely economic activity rather than First Amendment expression or petition.

Using this logic, a number of “secondary boycotts,” or boycotts against third parties in the hope of convincing them to stop doing business with the primary target of the boycott, have been ruled outside the protection of the First Amendment and properly prohibited by labor union laws.” https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/987/boycotts

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“Like the federal statute at issue in Longshoremen’s [to be read in conjunction with Claiborne – livingengine], HB 2617 is the type of law that is designed to secure valid aims: in this case, one that ensures the State of Arizona does not use taxpayer funds to enter into contracts with parties engaging in discriminatory boycotts of protected classes. State anti-discrimination laws have a long history of being held to be valid exercises of state power.”

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Foreign entities cannot be protected classes under US law.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

That is precisely the point. BDS is a foreign operation seeking to engage in a secondary boycott and is therefore not protect by the 1A. BDS is in violation of the Export Administration Act of 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Act_of_1979

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Not without actual interference in trade.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

No, and again, you are in error.

“”Those laws discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Muslim countries, including complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance with the boycott.”” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Act_of_1979

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

BDS is actually domestic. Having USA citizens in support makes it domestic.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

No. You are in error.

“The BDS movement is diverse enough that no single organization controls the entire movement. However, studies have shown a pattern of financial ties between various organizations that support BDS and militant organizations in the Middle East such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One BDS-affiliated organization, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, receives fiscal sponsorship from Al-Awda, an organization dedicated to promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories and support for United States designated terrorist organizations.[26][45][unreliable source][46][unreliable source][47][unreliable source]

According to Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former terrorism finance analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department, there are links between American supporters of Hamas and the BDS campaign. In April 2016, Schanzer testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade that “in the case of three organizations that were designated, shut down, or held civilly liable for providing material support to the terrorist organization Hamas, a significant contingent of their former leadership appears to have pivoted to leadership positions within the American BDS campaign.”” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions#Financial_ties

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“The Claiborne court was deciding a case that determined how Americans could protest against local action that deprived them of their constitutional right to freedom. Whatever one may think of the conflict between the State of Israel and Palestinian Arabs, it is not an issue governed by the Fourteenth Amendment or any other provision of the United States Constitution; the rights of the parties involved are outside the scope and reach of Constitution. Thus, BDS boycott activity in the United States is not covered by the protections afforded under Claiborne.” https://zachorlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zachor-Amicus-Brief-A.pdf

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“HB 2617 is a common sense, narrowly tailored anti-discrimination measure that affects only a limited universe of secondary and tertiary economic boycotts relating to foreign affairs, completely divorced from the assertion of any constitutional rights asserted by those engaging in the boycotts. The activity subject to the restrictions of HB 2617 is not protected under Claiborne and 25 Plaintiffs retain an effective assortment of expressive conduct and actual speech with which to voice their political beliefs about Israel.
The BDS Movement was founded by a consortium of countries and terror organizations devoted to the destruction of Israel, many of whom have been designated as foreign terror organizations by the United States. The governors of all fifty states recently signed a statement affirming opposition to BDS, stating that BDS’s “single-minded focus on the Jewish State raises serious questions about its motivations and intentions.” Governors United against BDS, https://www.ajc.org/governors. This unified and universal acknowledgement of the nature of BDS should be recognized when undertaking a legal analysis of rights associated with BDS Movement activity.” https://zachorlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zachor-Amicus-Brief-A.pdf

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Who is funding the movement is irrelevant. It’s still an idea that is 1A-protected.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

Why, little aemoreira1981, do you insist upon HUMILIATING yourself? Are you and litty spittoon one and the same?

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

And yet, I am tempted to believe that the ACLU would say nothing about any new law that restricts “Islamophobia”.

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Not so fast! Such a law would be defeated by over 75 percent, although you may have a few outliers for it.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

I am not so sure, look at Britain’s government and its laws regarding offensive speech. As well as the rest of Europe.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

If you think that the UK is bad … Take a hard look at Canada’s M-103.

Liniborn
Liniborn
5 years ago

I like and protect Israel, feel safer with Israel more than that goat raping dog they call allah snackbar.

WatchungEagle
WatchungEagle
4 years ago

American citizens have the right to boycott whoever we want without the government retaliating against.

Pam Geller is a disgrace for trying to take away our rights. HOW DARE THE ISRAELI LOBBY TRY TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH?

America First, not Israel First.

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