• P1r4nha@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    In most US states boycotts of Israel are illegal. And forget sanctions or the biggest economy will retaliate. There’s a reason Israeli officials are not afraid looking like nasty war criminals on TV: they have no reason to be.

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      This is a clear example of how the the US is complicit in what is happening right now. We helped set the stage for this.

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      And in almost all instances the courts have ruled that anti-BDS laws are unconstitutional under the first amendment.

      Those laws are just grandstanding.

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        Man, I wish you would’ve said “all” not “almost all”. It’s clearly a violation of the first amendment and not even a good one. Hate speech laws against antisemitism I’d be fine with, but not this.

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          I agree, it’s clearly a violation. But I don’t think the 5th Circuit cares about the constitution. So rather than look up every single case, I just assumed some court made an insane ruling.