The next president - and every one thereafter, to be honest - may want to consider a thorough examination of state and federal laws by qualified officials (whatever that means in this day and age) to clean out some of the detritus of 200+ years legal tomfoolery.
Obviously, the old chestnut of it being illegal to share a bed with your horse (can't remember where that one applies, but it was/is on the books) is an easy example, but if every election included 5% of the questionable laws to be examined, we might get things cleaned up in another 200+ years, or less.
I just found out the cowards in Illinois canceled the hearing on this. Anyone from Illinois on here please put some pressure on your Representatives. Also, the link shared in this article now contains a way to reach out to tell them what you think about this. So they are no longer accepting witness slips.
My slip is done but we need to make sure to get the word out because we know the Israel lobby will try to game the system against the will of the people.
As a foreigner I am perplexed that states can create legislation that is contrary to constitutional amendments. I do hope your organization will be able to fix this ugly legislation.
(On the other hand, I question whether I have any right to be perplexed, since I have seen drifting Hungary into a very authoritarian state without severe punishment for this, but such isn’t impossible in the EU since it is not a federal state like the US but a union of rather independent states.)
However, it does look as if we have anti-BDS laws here. The way our legislature is set up, we have two Assemblypersons and one State Senator in each Legislative District. To find out how to get our anti-BDS regulations off of the books, I'm going to start by calling my state legislators and look on the internet for other information.
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!
Israel is an illegitimate country of thugs. ‘Boycott’ is the least that should be brought against them.
The next president - and every one thereafter, to be honest - may want to consider a thorough examination of state and federal laws by qualified officials (whatever that means in this day and age) to clean out some of the detritus of 200+ years legal tomfoolery.
Obviously, the old chestnut of it being illegal to share a bed with your horse (can't remember where that one applies, but it was/is on the books) is an easy example, but if every election included 5% of the questionable laws to be examined, we might get things cleaned up in another 200+ years, or less.
I just found out the cowards in Illinois canceled the hearing on this. Anyone from Illinois on here please put some pressure on your Representatives. Also, the link shared in this article now contains a way to reach out to tell them what you think about this. So they are no longer accepting witness slips.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
My slip is done but we need to make sure to get the word out because we know the Israel lobby will try to game the system against the will of the people.
As a foreigner I am perplexed that states can create legislation that is contrary to constitutional amendments. I do hope your organization will be able to fix this ugly legislation.
(On the other hand, I question whether I have any right to be perplexed, since I have seen drifting Hungary into a very authoritarian state without severe punishment for this, but such isn’t impossible in the EU since it is not a federal state like the US but a union of rather independent states.)
I'm proud to be from New Jersey.
However, it does look as if we have anti-BDS laws here. The way our legislature is set up, we have two Assemblypersons and one State Senator in each Legislative District. To find out how to get our anti-BDS regulations off of the books, I'm going to start by calling my state legislators and look on the internet for other information.
Here goes!!!!
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!