US federal court struck down a Kansas law that punishes BDS supporters

[betsy]

1 hour ago, marcus said:

Here you are again, trying to draw a ridiculous parallel between Israel's blatant violations of human rights and international law against the Palestinian 'people' and, wait for it: England bombing the Nazis. 

The BDS movement is not about helping Islamic Terrorists. You need to understand simple facts, before coming out with your opinions.

OVERVIEW

The call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

In 2005, Palestinian civil society organisations called for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as a form of non-violent pressure on Israel.

The BDS movement was launched by 170 Palestinian unions, political parties, refugee networks, women’s organisations, professional associations, popular resistance committees and other Palestinian civil society bodies.

Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the Palestinian BDS call urges nonviolent pressure on Israel until it complies with international law by meeting three demands:

1) Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall

• International law recognises the West Bank including East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights as occupied by Israel. As part of its military occupation, Israel steals land and forces Palestinians into ghettos, surrounded by checkpoints, settlements and watchtowers and an illegal apartheid Wall. Israel has imposed a medieval siege on Gaza , turning it into the largest open air prison in the world. Israel also regularly carries out large-scale assaults on Gaza that are widely condemned as constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 

2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality

• One-fifth of Israel’s citizens are Palestinians who remained inside the armistice lines after 1948. They are subjected to a system of racial discrimination enshrined in more than 50 laws that impact every aspect of their lives. The Israeli government continues to forcibly displace Palestinian communities in Israel from their land. Israeli leaders routinely and openly incite racial violence against them.

 

3) Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194

• Since its violent establishment in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of more than half of the indigenous people of Palestine, Israel has set out to control as much land and uproot as many Palestinians as it can. As a result of this systematic forced displacement, there are now more than 7.25 million Palestinian refugees. They are denied their right to return to their homes simply because they are not Jewish.

 

Read it again.

[taxme]

On 3/13/2018 at 3:01 PM, Hudson Jones said:

By the way, in case it was missed, in a Major Free Speech Victory, a Federal Court Strikes Down a Law that Punishes Supporters of Israel Boycott

 

A FEDERAL JUDGE on Tuesday ruled that a Kansas law designed to punish people who boycott Israel is an unconstitutional denial of free speech. The ruling is a significant victory for free speech rights because the global campaign to criminalize, or otherwise legally outlaw, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has been spreading rapidly in numerous political and academic centers in the U.S. This judicial decision definitively declares those efforts — when they manifest in the U.S. — to be a direct infringement of basic First Amendment rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

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Good job, Judge. Finally we see a judge who uses some common sense for a change. Judges like him are hard to find these days. Too many judges are liberal and to politically correct.Thank God that America has a 1st Amendment. Why would any state try to outlaw freedom of speech when they must know that what they are doing is violating the constitutional rights of Americans their right to their 1st Amendment. The liberals and the zionist lobby must be fuming over this. Too bad for them. It's called freedom of speech live with it or leave America.

Now if we only had a 1st Amendment here in Canada instead of having outfits like the Human Rights(wrongs)Commission that will tell Canadians as to what they can say and what they cannot say. Sometimes I wish that BC were the 51st state of the union. I would have my freedom of speech protected and my dollar would be worth something. The Canadian dollar was at $76. 67 the other day. Shocking. 

[taxme]

On 3/13/2018 at 4:28 PM, Argus said:

I'm sure all the Jew haters will rejoice.

We know that all the snowflake liberals and democrats and the Israel lobbyists will be crying their cry baby heads off. Aw well, crap happens as they say.  

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On 3/13/2018 at 5:15 PM, dialamah said:

On the one hand, college students shouldn't protest Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson because that's shutting down free speech.  On the other hand, unconstitutional laws should be passed to prevent criticism of Isreal.

They should not be protesting Shapiro or Peterson. They both have a right to their opinions and points of view just like college students have a right to their opinions. Most college students are liberals and they do not believe in freedom of speech for others. Their kind of free speech only counts. Israel has a right to be criticized by anyone who wishes to do so. No country should have the right not to be criticized. There are plenty of people and organizations that are against Israel for whatever reason. They must be listened to as to why this is so. 

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On 3/15/2018 at 10:09 AM, DogOnPorch said:

It's fun to be anti-Semetic, after-all. Why let a law spoil everybody's fun?

Come on now. Are you trying to say here that because some people or some group wants to avoid dealing with Israel for whatever reason that they are automatically deemed to be anti-Jewish? That law violated freedom of speech. It was no fun for those who were forced to have to obey that law and be denied their freedom of speech. 

[taxme]

On 3/16/2018 at 11:47 AM, betsy said:

College students aren't merely protesting.  They're enforcing their will that speakers they don't agree with shouldn't be heard by others.  They're shutting down venues.

In other words, these college students are the ones dictating what should and shouldn't be heard. People shouldn't  be prevented from exercising their rights.  People can choose whether they want to listen to Shapiro or not.  No one should take it upon themselves to make the decision for them!

No one should intimidate or block people from attending!

 

 

 

 

The liberals are enforcing a dictatorial system!

 

 

It's way long overdue for conservatives to start demonstrating at those leftist liberal events also. Time to give them a taste of their own medicine. Force them to take conservative medicine. They might even be surprised as to how good it tastes and maybe would like to try more. Plenty to sure. 

[marcus]

1 hour ago, betsy said:

Read it again.

You have demonstrated two things in our exchanges here:

1) You don't know much about Israel's treatment of Palestinians and what Palestinians are asking through the BDS movement

2) You are not very articulate

[betsy]

2 hours ago, marcus said:

You have demonstrated two things in our exchanges here:

1) You don't know much about Israel's treatment of Palestinians and what Palestinians are asking through the BDS movement

2) You are not very articulate

Irrelevant!

 

Read again.

[marcus]

15 hours ago, betsy said:

Irrelevant!

 

Read again.

Unfortunately, your contribution has become irrelevant.