The headline you’ve written is factually inaccurate. They prevent the state from doing business with contractors who boycott Israel. It’s a very different thing. The state of Texas also prohibits its state employees from doing the same.
YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel
Submitted 2 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Texas takes it several steps further. Victims of Hurricane Harvey had to sign antiBDS statements. Flooding a few months ago added a disclaimer that you recognize the right for Israel to exist
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And Kansas. I had to sign a document acknowledging it. I have no intention of honoring that contract.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not just Arkansas, most states have antiBDS laws in place. Many of them do not allow contracting with the state, state employment, or receiving state disaster assistance if you hold BDS ideology. Stars in purple have active antiBDS laws in place
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BDS?
BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not even American but how would you even prove that? (eg. Not buying certain products…?)
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The title is misleading. It bans state contractors from boycotting Israel, so there can be a certain amount of checking up.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I heard about this a few years ago when I first moved here. It’s only for government contractors.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, I see.
US headlines are often misleading internationally so that helps!
(of course one could read each article but thats hardly possible in total)
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t put words in the mouth of the law. We have something similar in TX. If you are a government employee you have to agree not to “boycott Israel”. It doesn’t say boycott Israeli products or companies. It says “boycott Israel” itself, so you just can’t say that you’ll never travel there.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why me? I reached to the (it seems wrongly worded) news.
Try to be a bit more open minded to foreigners’ questions please.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Whether or not a boycott is protected speech is one thing (though I would think it is) but forcing someone to sign a pledge is absolutely compelled speech and a violation of the First Amendment. And from the dissent opinion on this most recent decision, it sounds like the law is ill-formed and overbroad.
If the government of Arkansas wants to not do business with contractors who boycott Israel, perhaps that’s their right. Forcing a pledge is not.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Considering that they have rigged consumer devices to explode, I think boycotting them is a very wise decision.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
So if deliberately not buying Israeli stuff is illegal, does that imply everyone has to buy a minimum of Israeli stuff? Or can they continue to not buy Israeli stuff, as long as it’s without mens rea?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Boycott and just be quiet about it
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How can it be illegal to boycott something? You’re required by law to buy things from Israel?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hardly surprising from people whose family tree looks more like a circle.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
California and New York have similar laws as do most states. Those in purple have anti BDS laws in place
TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s a really fucked up thing to say. I get it’s a joke, but holy hell.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So the state forces you to buy from Israel?
What a country.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s for State contracts apparently.
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
America is starting to feel that yoke
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Starting? Shit ain’t funny any more… Not that its ever been honestly
mnhs1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’d have to shoot me and force my body to eat anything touched by an Israeli. Fuck Arkansas.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
See, this is where the vitriol crosses the line into wrong. Oppose the genocide, speak out against Zionism. But when you start saying shit like this, you’re just as wrong as anyone who says they dont trust, say, Black people to handle their food.
mnhs1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are nuts, comparing black people to the illegal invaders of the Palestinian territory.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
What’s wrong with my Israeli friend who moved out of Israel 15 years ago and attends pro-Palestine protests?
mnhs1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s not your Israeli friend then. He’s the same from whichever country you came from. He’s okay.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kahanist exceptionalism.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
YSK, that’s not what it says or means…
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 months ago
38 states to the best of my knowledge.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You should know, that’s unconstitutional.
KindnessisPunk@piefed.ca 2 months ago
They basically just ruled that piracy is legal for meta in their case about scraping Anna's archieve for their AI.
The class divide is very literally getting baked into our legal framework. I know it's always been there, in an unspoken manner, but it's making strides in being letter of the law now.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A big joint labeled “AIPAC” that got passed to them in a Federalist Society blunt rotation.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can ban imports, you cannot dictate that I buy products from fucking Walmart.
hector@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Well also keep in mind that the Israelis have our politicians compromised, not just on the Epstein stuff, probably a range of issues, and seemingly our CIA and FBI did nothing to stop it if not more likely helped them do it.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
*States
Fixed it for you. You are welcome.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Minnesota is in the same appeals circuit and deserves better.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i really really wish that were true. were it, i’d have the medicines i need.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Again, controlling imports is a long established power. The government cannot force you to but from a specific business.