This is targeting BDS if I'm not mistaken.
Yes. Many states have anti-BDS laws on the books.
Conservative boycotts are magnificent displays of self-ownage.
They are being challenged in court.
This is evidently directed at anti-BDS legislation, which has been passed by 27 states. BDS has also been officially condemned as an anti-Semitic movement by the governments of Ontario, France, and Germany among others, and was even rejected by Palestinian President Abbas (who instead supports a more-targeted economic boycott on goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements).
Yes, states have been passing laws to prevent people from joining the BDS movement.
You'll find that this doesn't exist in American politics.
I don't see how saying "Israel is an illegitimate apartheid state" is hate speech. And yes that should be protected by the 1st Amendment
The more relevant question is what is the jurisprudence on this. If the laws are found to be legal than this doesn't do anything.
Careful, because that's not protected speech on Era.
No, refusing to serve customers based on gender identity is not a 'boycott', its discrimination.
There is no legitimate legal basis to defend these laws considering what the 1st Amendment allows and protects. Also you've seen people get banned for thinking Israel is an apartheid state? That's bullshit.
I am seriously saying that BDS is a hate group, and that this site has long had a serious anti-Semitism problem. It took a lot of lobbying behind the scenes by myself and several Jewish members just to get the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism incorporated into the ResetEra Site Code of Conduct (and even then, we didn't manage to get the whole thing).
People are boycotting Israeli products because of the actions of the Israeli government, not out of hatred for ordinary Isreali citizens. Israel has a right to exist, but not as a state that oppresses its Arab minority and murders Palestinians.
Careful, because that's not protected speech on E
For pointing out parallels between Israel and other authoritarian regimes including Nazi a Germany, yes.
I've directly compared the Israeli government's actions to Nazi Germany here before and was not banned for it. Maybe I was lucky. If I do get banned for drawing that parallel (which I've also made the same comparison between China and Nazi Germany, and the US government and Nazi Germany) then I'm done with this forum. Israel doesn't get to use anti-semetism as a shield to deflect from their oppression of others.
Yeah, my respect for the staff here has increased for not using that definition. Criticism of the Israeli Government and its actions, and wanting to do something about its injustices, is not anti-semitic (which the ToS already rightfully prohibits).
...you've got to be kidding me. I mean I've never directly called the Israeli government 'Nazis' because that seems kind of poor taste to me given the history, but like...its fascism based on the oppression of a specific race/religious group of people. Israel obviously has a right to exist, but as an equal society for all it's people, and the Palistinians deserve some form of recognition, rights, self-determination, and sovereignty.
