Comment: From December of last year. It shows how desperate the Israeli lobby is becoming and how effective the Boycott really is.
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The Intercept
A 2018 report shows that American citizens are actively being stripped of their First Amendment rights. As Glenn Greenwald, reported, 26 states have enacted Israel loyalty oath requirements for contract workers, and 13 other US states have similar bills pending. Greenwald’s reported cited figures from Legal Palestine, an independent organization that protects the civil rights of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
The laws allow the state governments to sanction and impose limits on citizens who participate in political boycotts of Israel. The First Amendment is supposed to protect citizens from being punished for expressing their political beliefs, Greenwald reported, but for Bahia Amawi, a children’s speech pathologist in Texas, this has not been the case.
Amawi has been helping developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students as a contract worker in the Western District of Texas for over nine years. When it was time for her to sign her annual contract renewal, she was shocked to see that the contract required her to sign an oath pledging that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. Amawi could not agree to the terms of the contract because she and her family had made a personal choice to avoid purchasing Israeli goods to boycott the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Her decision to not support the Israeli economy is not only her right as a consumer, but also, her right as an American citizen.
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The Intercept
A 2018 report shows that American citizens are actively being stripped of their First Amendment rights. As Glenn Greenwald, reported, 26 states have enacted Israel loyalty oath requirements for contract workers, and 13 other US states have similar bills pending. Greenwald’s reported cited figures from Legal Palestine, an independent organization that protects the civil rights of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
The laws allow the state governments to sanction and impose limits on citizens who participate in political boycotts of Israel. The First Amendment is supposed to protect citizens from being punished for expressing their political beliefs, Greenwald reported, but for Bahia Amawi, a children’s speech pathologist in Texas, this has not been the case.
Amawi has been helping developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students as a contract worker in the Western District of Texas for over nine years. When it was time for her to sign her annual contract renewal, she was shocked to see that the contract required her to sign an oath pledging that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. Amawi could not agree to the terms of the contract because she and her family had made a personal choice to avoid purchasing Israeli goods to boycott the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Her decision to not support the Israeli economy is not only her right as a consumer, but also, her right as an American citizen.
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