We need to make boycotting Isreal legal in every state. Please keep posting about this. I thought only New York had this boycott which is bad enough, but 36 states!
Imperative to vote for AIPAC Free candidates !!!! Because With the stacked MAGA Supreme Court I doubt this can be overturned but we know it’s a constitutional right !
Thanks for publicizing this, Qasim. I filled out a witness slip and it is a bit tricky. I had to fiddle around with it a bit before getting it to go through.
I am campaigning against Daniel Biss and Laura Fine both of whom voted for the Illinois anti-BDS law when they were serving in the Illinois legislature in 2015. It is frightening testimony to the grip of Zionism in Illinois that the vote for that bill was unanimous, every single senator and representative voted for it, a bill that does nothing for the people of Illinois and is purely a service to Israel. The map you provide completes the scene nationwide.
Three cheers for Jewish Voice for Peace that is leading the effort to get the law repealed.
Anti BDS restricting US citizens has always appalled me as we are supposedly living in a free country. At least that was the thought prior to Trump's 2nd term. My state of HI is one of the few that does not prohibit it, but my birth state, liberal CA does, and it astonishes me. Do people not pay attention to what has been going on for decades against Palestine? Israel is no longer the brand new 'country' trying to survive. They are wealthy and do not need our monetary or military assistance. In fact if we ever realize that and pull it back, they may have to co-exist with their neighbors. Additionally most of the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed are noncombatants, not Hamas.
I agree. I was born after the Korean War. Our junior high school library had at least 25 books on the Holocaust, with black and white photos. Dead emaciated people were stacked like wood, awaiting the incinerator. It took 12 minutes to burn each corpse to ash.
I read 24 books before I could take no more.
I asked our librarian why we had so many.
She looked grim. "So that people do not forget. So they remember."
I remember man's inhumanity to humankind.
We are repeating the evil cycle. Will we need an invasion by Europe, or Europe and Canada, to stop this madness?
Hard to believe this country is so beholden to Israeli interests (& thanks to Trump, also to Russian interests). More so, much more so than our own. I am happy to see that my state is 1 of the few that hasn't signed onto this. Good luck in Illinois!
You know i disagree with you on this one. BDS is an anti-semitic process, and the people on the left have decided Israel is the bad guy. They just want to be left alone. Yes, Bibi is an ass and needs to be in jail like DJT does, but knee-jerk BDS thinking is wrong.
Your opinion is your opinion. But you have presented zero actual facts. The is not "deciding Israel is the bad guy" and "knee-jerk." BDS is a peaceful movement that started after decades of illegal military occupation. It is literally the most peaceful response imaginable. By your logic, the Montgomery bus boycott was also wrong.
All of your opinion notwithstanding, you cannot in any way justify this while championing 1A free speech protections. It's irreconcilable. Either you're pro 1A or you're pro oppression.
BDS is a peaceful means of providing consequences to Israel for 77 years of ethnic cleansing. For Americans it is unconditionally a good thing to do because of the fact that our government has shielded Israel from all consequences to the horrors it has visited on the natives of Palestine. Financially, militarily and diplomatically in the UN, the US has never denied Israel anything, making it the monster of arrogance and entitlement we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. This was topped by the proud declaration of President Biden that he is a Zionist, Zionism the antithesis of liberty and justice for all.
The grip of Zionism on America that has turned this nation upside down to support ethnic cleansing must be broken. This is in process, the Jews of Jewish Voice for Peace leading the way, and will advance significantly at the midterm elections when Republican control of Congress will be lost. Ethnic cleansing is wrong and there is no group with special permission to employ it. The US did it to the American Indians for which the great majority of Americans express remorse. To approve of Israel is hypocrisy.
Thank you once again for featuring news that can not easily be found in other places. I am shocked by this law. Thankfully, Massachusetts remains clear. Good luck in overturning this injustice.
One big reason I launched Let's Address This is to ensure we're covering the critical human rights issues that corporate media insists on ignoring. Thank you for reading and supporting, Liz.
I question it because it seems to fall under "money is protected speech." BDS is withholding of money. Qasim, what is the difference that would support one but not the other?
I tried five times and could not get the comment system to let me comment or submit. I have now declared five times that I am not a robot but apparently I am not believed. I’m so glad I took my retirement money out of the State Retirement System and IMRF from my dozen years as a government lawyer way back. I knew it would be jacked with by the legislature although I would not have thought in this unconstitutional way of banning investment in companies who won’t do business with Israel. Now that evidence exists that Epstein’s whole dastardly scene of harm was about spying and doing favors for Israel maybe people will realize the government under Netenyahu is as evil as our government under Trump. Maybe more. A whole lot of Palestinians are dead and continue to die. Hard to compare injustices but the infringements here of protecting a terrorizing state are astonishing. God - Good- does not and could not approve of the tactics we know about nor the ones coming to light. So any claim of righteousness in this unconstitutional stance based on religion or historical perceived closeness to God is falsity supreme- the corruption in high places Paul warned us about.
I too as a long-time transplant from *out east*, a Michiganian noticed that the Upper Peninsula (“ the U P”… where you say each letter rather than the word) was on the map in white while the “ lower peninsula” ( never abbreviated unless the Yupers do that, and I will check…) is the color blue.
How odd! But you're right. Is it possible for the 2 parts to have different policies? (I kind of doubt it, but sometimes I'm surprised at these kinds of things.)
We need to make boycotting Isreal legal in every state. Please keep posting about this. I thought only New York had this boycott which is bad enough, but 36 states!
Imperative to vote for AIPAC Free candidates !!!! Because With the stacked MAGA Supreme Court I doubt this can be overturned but we know it’s a constitutional right !
CA. WTF.
Thanks for publicizing this, Qasim. I filled out a witness slip and it is a bit tricky. I had to fiddle around with it a bit before getting it to go through.
I am campaigning against Daniel Biss and Laura Fine both of whom voted for the Illinois anti-BDS law when they were serving in the Illinois legislature in 2015. It is frightening testimony to the grip of Zionism in Illinois that the vote for that bill was unanimous, every single senator and representative voted for it, a bill that does nothing for the people of Illinois and is purely a service to Israel. The map you provide completes the scene nationwide.
Three cheers for Jewish Voice for Peace that is leading the effort to get the law repealed.
They definitely made the slips more complicated than they need to be.
Co-sign on your advocacy against Biss and Fine.
Does anyone know how this is done in Oregon or ought I just call my state Rep and Senator about this?
You are wrong on this!!!!
I am wrong to advocate FOR free speech? That doesn't make much sense.
Anti BDS restricting US citizens has always appalled me as we are supposedly living in a free country. At least that was the thought prior to Trump's 2nd term. My state of HI is one of the few that does not prohibit it, but my birth state, liberal CA does, and it astonishes me. Do people not pay attention to what has been going on for decades against Palestine? Israel is no longer the brand new 'country' trying to survive. They are wealthy and do not need our monetary or military assistance. In fact if we ever realize that and pull it back, they may have to co-exist with their neighbors. Additionally most of the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed are noncombatants, not Hamas.
I agree. I was born after the Korean War. Our junior high school library had at least 25 books on the Holocaust, with black and white photos. Dead emaciated people were stacked like wood, awaiting the incinerator. It took 12 minutes to burn each corpse to ash.
I read 24 books before I could take no more.
I asked our librarian why we had so many.
She looked grim. "So that people do not forget. So they remember."
I remember man's inhumanity to humankind.
We are repeating the evil cycle. Will we need an invasion by Europe, or Europe and Canada, to stop this madness?
And I am thankful that our PNW states, most of us, never signed on to discriminate against our own freedoms.
100% agree
This is very interesting! I want to find out about California’s law and contact my assembly member.
Hard to believe this country is so beholden to Israeli interests (& thanks to Trump, also to Russian interests). More so, much more so than our own. I am happy to see that my state is 1 of the few that hasn't signed onto this. Good luck in Illinois!
You know i disagree with you on this one. BDS is an anti-semitic process, and the people on the left have decided Israel is the bad guy. They just want to be left alone. Yes, Bibi is an ass and needs to be in jail like DJT does, but knee-jerk BDS thinking is wrong.
Your opinion is your opinion. But you have presented zero actual facts. The is not "deciding Israel is the bad guy" and "knee-jerk." BDS is a peaceful movement that started after decades of illegal military occupation. It is literally the most peaceful response imaginable. By your logic, the Montgomery bus boycott was also wrong.
All of your opinion notwithstanding, you cannot in any way justify this while championing 1A free speech protections. It's irreconcilable. Either you're pro 1A or you're pro oppression.
BDS is a peaceful means of providing consequences to Israel for 77 years of ethnic cleansing. For Americans it is unconditionally a good thing to do because of the fact that our government has shielded Israel from all consequences to the horrors it has visited on the natives of Palestine. Financially, militarily and diplomatically in the UN, the US has never denied Israel anything, making it the monster of arrogance and entitlement we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. This was topped by the proud declaration of President Biden that he is a Zionist, Zionism the antithesis of liberty and justice for all.
The grip of Zionism on America that has turned this nation upside down to support ethnic cleansing must be broken. This is in process, the Jews of Jewish Voice for Peace leading the way, and will advance significantly at the midterm elections when Republican control of Congress will be lost. Ethnic cleansing is wrong and there is no group with special permission to employ it. The US did it to the American Indians for which the great majority of Americans express remorse. To approve of Israel is hypocrisy.
Hard stuff.
Thank you once again for featuring news that can not easily be found in other places. I am shocked by this law. Thankfully, Massachusetts remains clear. Good luck in overturning this injustice.
One big reason I launched Let's Address This is to ensure we're covering the critical human rights issues that corporate media insists on ignoring. Thank you for reading and supporting, Liz.
My thought, too. Thanks, Qasim, for bringing this to our attention, along with action.
Wasn’t sure they’d take a submission from out of state, but they did.
Boycotting, is that supported by the first amendment?
I question it because it seems to fall under "money is protected speech." BDS is withholding of money. Qasim, what is the difference that would support one but not the other?
Certainly! As it should be.
It is 'a form of expression,' and, as such, falls under the 1st Amendment, as Qasim notes above.
I tried five times and could not get the comment system to let me comment or submit. I have now declared five times that I am not a robot but apparently I am not believed. I’m so glad I took my retirement money out of the State Retirement System and IMRF from my dozen years as a government lawyer way back. I knew it would be jacked with by the legislature although I would not have thought in this unconstitutional way of banning investment in companies who won’t do business with Israel. Now that evidence exists that Epstein’s whole dastardly scene of harm was about spying and doing favors for Israel maybe people will realize the government under Netenyahu is as evil as our government under Trump. Maybe more. A whole lot of Palestinians are dead and continue to die. Hard to compare injustices but the infringements here of protecting a terrorizing state are astonishing. God - Good- does not and could not approve of the tactics we know about nor the ones coming to light. So any claim of righteousness in this unconstitutional stance based on religion or historical perceived closeness to God is falsity supreme- the corruption in high places Paul warned us about.
I live in Illinois & had no idea this was a thing. I submitted my witness slip. Thank you for informing me!
Thank you for speaking up, Rachel!
I too as a long-time transplant from *out east*, a Michiganian noticed that the Upper Peninsula (“ the U P”… where you say each letter rather than the word) was on the map in white while the “ lower peninsula” ( never abbreviated unless the Yupers do that, and I will check…) is the color blue.
How odd! But you're right. Is it possible for the 2 parts to have different policies? (I kind of doubt it, but sometimes I'm surprised at these kinds of things.)