Supporting BDS could cost U one Million and 20 year Prison in America

in #news7 years ago (edited)

Congress is currently trying to pass a bill written by AIPAC, that would criminalize supporting the BDS (Boycott Diverse Sanctions) movement with a minimal civil penalty of 250,000$ and a maximum criminal penalty of 1,000,000$ and 20 years in prison.

The legislation currently has partisan support from 234 House Representatives and 43 Senators. Despite the obvious fact, that it is a clear violation of the 1st amendment in the American Constitution!

In this video I share why this news is not all bad, as it exposes whom these people really represent! I also share some contact information of the supporting Senators, with (cool) traitor music in the background.

(10 min video)


music - Traitor Song by Archtopbrownie

For more on this story and anti-BDS laws around the world, you can read this great article written by Glen Greenwald and Ryan Grim for the Intercept, that also has links to all supporters in Congress with contact information - https://israelpalestinenews.org/inter...

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One of the best content creators in Steemit. Somehow you are able to make these terrible news funny. How recently was the public made aware of this bill? When was it first proposed? I have a feeling this is what we are supposed to get distracted from with the whole transgender military ban.

Sorry for late reply @tommycordero (just saw it) and thanks for the large compliment, I try and feel these lunatic policies deserve to be mocked :)

You raised a very good point! It could quite be a distraction (after all known tactic of the State)

Thank you for raising awareness about this!

Thank you for what you do @lyndsaybowes and in the kind way you do it with much decency! (it's a gift you have)

Huggggssss!! X 1000000000000000000 Us CraziesCanucks gotta stick together EH? :) :) ooxxoxooxoxoxo

Despite your claim to the contrary;

This law has been upheld against First Amendment challenges. And the most anodyne way of describing the new bill is to say it merely extends the preexisting ban on boycotting an ally of the United States at the behest of a foreign country (e.g., Qatar) to include doing so at the behest of an International Governmental Organization, or IGO (e.g., the European Union or United Nations).

Importantly, neither the current law nor the proposed one bans boycotts of Israel generally. The existing anti-boycott law only prohibits actions taken “with intent to comply with, further, or support any boycott fostered or imposed by a foreign country.” Obviously, it is not generally unlawful to say whether one has business dealings with Israel. And likewise, even under this law, it is not illegal to boycott Israel — unless the reason you’re doing it is to comply with a foreign country’s demand that you do so.

If one says “I boycott Israel because I think Israel is terrible,” that remains perfectly lawful (the ACLU is simply wrong when it suggests that the law targets those who boycott Israel “because of a political viewpoint opposed to Israeli policies”). In fact, if one says “I boycott Israel because the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel tells me to,” that’s entirely lawful, too (PACBI is neither a foreign government nor an IGO). Only boycotts done at the behest of the EU or the U.N. would be newly prohibited by the law.

The ACLU’s letter suggests that this represents unlawful viewpoint discrimination. But many laws are like this: They prohibit certain actions only when they are taken with a particular intent. For example, it is illegal to fire a Latino employee if one is motivated by racial prejudice against Latinos. Both the action and the intent are perfectly lawful on their own — it is not illegal to harbor racial prejudice, and it is not illegal to fire employees — but conjoined together they become illicit. One could characterize this as (to quote the ACLU’s letter) punishing persons “based solely on their point of view” — the same action, taken with a different (non-prejudiced) viewpoint, is lawful — but doing so would throw the entirety of American anti-discrimination law into question.

Understanding the proposed anti-boycott measure requires grasping this distinction. Critics see provisions that target “support [for] any boycott fostered or imposed by any international governmental organization against Israel,” and assume that this motive alone is being criminalized. But a close parsing of the text — and in fairness, the paragraph in question is a convoluted nightmare — shows that this phrase does not prohibit supporting a boycott of Israel, it only prohibits those aforementioned actions (e.g., discrimination against an employee, certifying one does no business with Israelis) if one is doing so to support a boycott call from a foreign government or, now, IGO .

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Of course it's not bad. BDS is pure racism.

I assume you're a defender of the most racist regime today @croat or do you believe that Israel has a right to never ending expansion, while targeting civilians with white phosphorous (when not bombing them) with IDF shooting unarmed kids, along with many segregation laws!

It's simply amazes me how the most racist people on earth today can find the nerve to call others racist

I've read the Koran @lecrazycanuckeh. It explicitly instructs Muslims to massacre infidels.

Israel would get wiped out if she didn't defend herself.

Europe is learning this lesson the hard way, and so is Canada. Syrian refugees in Canada are raping and sexually assaulting infidel women but Trudeau doesn't doesn't want you to know this. Sweden is now the rape capital of the world because bigoted Muslims were let into the country.

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I feel the need to warn you @croat that I have been doing this a long time and eat Zionist paid trolls for breakfast, so much so they learned the hard way to just ignore me. Now I don't think you're a paid troll which is why I'll try to help you.

This video was created for people like yourself and to see what you're supporting! You'll notice that even do Judaism has the most disgusting scripture ever laid to paper, that I still don't generalize them all or say they all follow it (unlike you generalizing Muslims)

Also this video destroys the claim that Israel is only defending itself

Best of luck and have a good night

@lecrazycanuckeh

Learning to ignore you because you eat trolls is one thing. Altogether different is ignoring you because you lie, exaggerate, intentionally misinterpret, name call, make up/use false statistics and Jewish quotes (you were even given official links and shown by someone why you are wrong on several quotes and stats, but you continued using the same false data again in new posts anyways), you plagiarized (at least one) article and/or used that article after you were shown that it was plagiarized, you ignore data and rebuttals, while slandering, etc., and so since you don't seem want to learn or discuss honorably without cry baby stuff, those, are the actual reasons for your being "ignored..." But go on believing you eat "paid trolls" like you slandered me as, for having the gall to try to politely argue with you, using data to do it...

Rofl @ the claim of "eats trolls" and "pwned people" (knowing your use of slander and half truths,)... the ego on this one! To refute this post, and for proof you use half truths and misdirection, read the quotes I provided from Berkeley... Gonna correct/expand your interpretation of the law for this post, or just double down again, or just claim it was not your interpretation so it's okay? Still think "U" will ever get fined or "20 years" for your civilian level, (Palestinian harming) support of BDS? Do you even get the part about the UN or EU? Oh, 1 more thing, doesn't the law apply equally to and regarding all groups? (Just like that other law about discrimination of any group that someone corrected you about and you ignored, in favor of your interpretation that the law was only for the benefit of Jews, despite its mention in its very text, of Muslims, and other groups.) Right... You eat trolls... lol! After you're done eating Berkeley law, I'll come back if you're still hangry...

I share the verses of the Talmud in this video that anyone can easily look up if there is any doubt @contextualize


So clearly it is you that whines like a hangry person when treated as an equal

That what we we're talking about, or refute anything I've just said? Nice diversion tactic though, love how you ignore every corner you're in...

And no, many of those are entirely made up quotes, the rest are intentionally mistranslated or misread, as we've spoken about, and as I've seen you speak about with others. But you won't go read and think through the entire texts for yourself, you only read Jew hating websites who read and interpret the texts for you.

Back on topic, is Berkeley wrong? Gonna correct your interpretation, double down, or remain silent?

You Zionist extremist are so massively hypocritical it is amusing :)

I offer you a peaceful debate on Skype or Qallout @contextualize for others to witness and you won't but instead rely on diversion (no doubt because you know you don't have a leg to stand on)

Also if you don't like proven Talmudic quotes I also have lots of Israeli minister quotes that are along the same line :)

And you're still ignoring facts about Koran, and now threatening me because I point out simple truths.

Way to show your a liar and delusional @croat lol UNLIKE YOU I shared VERSES. You haven't shown any "facts" bud!

Are you really that dense that you think you've pointed out "simple truths"?

Stay pathetic bud, that's clearly your choice!

Sharing peaceful verses from Koran doesn't change the fact that the Koran is littered with killing instructions, teaching Muslims to massacre infidels @lecrazycanuckeh!

Facts are facts. You can't change the truth!

You have claimed that you've read the Koran and yet you can't give the verse to back up your claim! THAT IS A FACT @croat!

Also the post is about how the American Congress is trying to make it law to ban PEACEFUL PROTEST with harsh punishment! Something you clearly have NOTHING to add to!

Those are FACTS and CLEALRY you can't handle reality or truth!

I'm done proving you wrong with FACTS and if you have nothing to add to the subject of the post, then my MUTE button will embrace you

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