Federal Court Decides Boycotting Israel is Not Free Speech

This entire Jewish claim that anti-Semitism exists for no reason everywhere continues to slaughter credulity.

Leftists look at Israel as a kind of last holdout of European colonialism. It’s pretty straightforward, and doesn’t really have anything to do with Jews per se, but rather their own third worldist ideology.

Right-wingers do oppose Israel primarily because it is Jewish, rather than because they’re concerned about Palestinians. However, they view it as a base of international Jewry that is used as an operational center for their control of global levers of power.

Both left and right point to the fact that Israel holds serious sway over the US government as a result of Zionist Jews throwing money at politicians, as well as Zionist Jews using nepotism to get themselves into government offices, where they then enact policies that benefit Israel.

These claims are all very specific, unlike the claims that the Jews make about “these are fake complaints – you only use these complaints to cover up the fact that you hate us for no reason.”

AP:

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Arkansas’ law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, finding the restriction is not an unconstitutional violation of free speech.

The full 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a 2-1 decision last year by a three-judge panel of the court that found the requirement to be unconstitutional. The Arkansas Times had sued to block the law, which requires contractors with the state to reduce their fees by 20% if they don’t sign the pledge.

“(The law) only prohibits economic decisions that discriminate against Israel,” Judge Jonathan Kobes wrote in the court’s opinion. “Because those commercial decisions are invisible to observers unless explained, they are not inherently expressive and do not implicate the First Amendment.”

This judge was put there by Donald Trump.

A federal judge in 2019 dismissed the Times’ lawsuit, ruling that the boycotts are not protected by the First Amendment. A three-judge panel of the appeals court reversed that ruling, and the state appealed to the full appeals court.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the Times, said it planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We hope and expect that the Supreme Court will set things right and reaffirm the nation’s historic commitment to providing robust protection to political boycotts,” Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney for the ACLU Foundation’s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, said in a statement.

The new ruling didn’t give a breakdown of how judges decided, but at least one dissented, saying the law is written so broadly that it could go beyond boycotts.

“One could imagine a company posting anti-Israel signs, donating to causes that promote a boycott of Israel, encouraging others to boycott Israel, or even publicly criticizing the act with the intent to ‘limit commercial relations with Israel’ as a general matter,” Judge Jane Kelly wrote in her dissent. “And any of that conduct would arguably fall within the prohibition.”

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The Times’ lawsuit said the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College refused to contract for advertising with the newspaper unless the paper signed the pledge. The newspaper isn’t engaged in a boycott against Israel.

“Today is a resounding victory for Arkansas’s anti-discrimination law and reinforces Arkansas’s relationship with our long-time ally, Israel,” Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, whose office defended the law, said in a statement.

This is a complicated speech issue on its face, but it’s pretty straightforward – as much as Israel talks about how BDS activists should be attacking other countries instead of them, there is no other country that can have a boycott made illegal in America.

Just compare it to Russia – Russia is involved in a border skirmish with a “country” that was a part of Russia thirty years ago. Israel is stealing land from its neighbors that it has no claim at all to, from countries that are not threats to Israel.