Washington Post Publishes OpEd Critical of Pro-Israel Law Which Shuts Down BDS

[maz]

SHOCKER: Washington Post Publishes OpEd Critical of Pro-Israel Law Which Shuts Down BDS



21st Century Wire says...

It's no secret that the US mainstream media enforces a very tight party line when it comes to saying anything about Israel. Generally speaking, any criticism of the 'Jewish State' normally ends up in the editorial waste bin.

The reason for this should be academic by now: powerful Israeli Lobby exists in Washington and with satellite branches across the US and Canada. The lobby's attack apparatus regularly coordinate media incursions and smear campaigns against any publication or journalist who dares to break rank and criticize Israel's appalling human rights record, endless violations of international law and flagrant ignorance of multiple UN resolutions. It consists mainly of the following organizations: the Anti-Defamation League (which devotes a large portion of its time and resources to defaming people it seeks to discredit), the quasi Masonic organization and godfather of the Jewish political attack organs B'nai B'rith International,  and of course, the ADL's ugly step child the dubious 'NGO' Southern Poverty Law Center. These organizations enforce their strict public relations code through a collection of tactics like threats and boycotts, including targeting a publication's advertisers and sponsors, or featuring a journalist, media pundit, author or academic on one of their many 'Hate Lists', and by lobbing the standard charge of antisemitism against anyone who sounds remotely critical of Israel and its many failings.

This week, David Cole, a national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Faiz Shakir national political director of the ACLU, penned a piece (see article below) in Jeff Bezos's recently acquired deep state propaganda mill, The Washington Post. In their impassioned piece, they posed the question of whether or not the recent US legislation called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act is moral in a modern democracy, or even legal for that matter. Incredibly, this new Pro-Israel law threatens fines and imprisonment to anyone who speaks of or campaign to boycott, divest or sanction the Israeli state for its many and sundry documented international crimes.

The level of tyranny inherent in this new piece of legislation is breathtaking to say the least. Simply put – it's a direct attack on the US First Amendment. What's worse is that it's being orchestrated from outside of the United States by a foreign entity. The bill's target is the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which is a global campaign that applies economic and political pressure on Israel to actually comply with international law (something the US government itself should also be doing). According to the authors, the new Orwellian law would also make it a crime to support or even furnish information about a boycott directed at Israel or its businesses called out by the United Nations, the European Union or any other "international governmental organization." At its core, this law would constitute an anathema to any modern republican or democratic concept, and yet, this is what the Israeli Lobby seeks to impose on the people of the United States. So far, 45 US Senators have lined-up to support this bill, and not one member of Congress has joined the ACLU in denouncing it.

This piece of pro-Israel legislation is a serious threat to free speech

Here's the OpEd...

This piece of pro-Israel legislation is a serious threat to free speech

By David Cole and Faiz Shakir

The right to boycott has a long history in the United States, from the American Revolution to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Montgomery bus boycott to the campaign for divestment from businesses serving apartheid  South Africa.

Nowadays we celebrate those efforts. But precisely because boycotts are such a powerful form of expression, governments have long sought to interfere with them — from King George III to the police in Alabama, and now to the U.S. Congress.

The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, legislation introduced in the Senate by Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) and in the House by Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.), would make it a crime to support or even furnish information about a boycott directed at Israel or its businesses called by the United Nations, the European Union or any other "international governmental organization." Violations would be punishable by civil and criminal penalties of up to $1 million and 20 years in prison. The American Civil Liberties Union, where we both work, takes no position for or against campaigns to boycott Israel or any other foreign country. But since our organization's founding in 1920, the ACLU has defended the right to collective action. This bill threatens that right.

The Israel Anti-Boycott Act is designed to stifle efforts to protest Israel's settlement policies by boycotting businesses in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. The bill's particular target is the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a global campaign that seeks to apply economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with international law.

Cont.

Criticizing Israel to become illegal Another article from 2011 about criminalizing critics of Israel, but not necessarily under the same pretext as the BDS bill.

[yankeedoodle]

Might be some sort of trick, of course.  If, for example, some sort of "event" should happen to poor little Israhell, this brief period of doubt about being subservient will be seen as a period of weakness, and this bill will be passed with 100% approval.  Just think: President/King Kushner* in power, and he can put anybody who criticizes Israhell in prison, and take all their money.  Hmm...quite possibly, it's a trick.

(*Just saw some bullshit about this General Kelly running the White House, and Kushner must report through him.  Can you believe that?   )

But, on the other hand, we know that it was Israhell that installed President/King Kushner, and his puppet, shit-for-brains shabbos goy Donnie-boy, and, no doubt, people in very important positions know this, also.  And, no doubt, they DO NOT like it.  So, we can only hope that Israhell has finally chutzpahed their dumb asses into a corner: maybe, finally, the right-thinking people see an opportunity to move on Israhell.

Whatever it is, the timing is interesting, since 2 November 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and we can be sure that something big is planned - or, maybe, was planned - for this year, and it hasn't happened...yet...and there's less then 100 days between now and 2 November 2017.

[yankeedoodle]

Might be some sort of trick, of course.  If, for example, some sort of "event" should happen to poor little Israhell, this brief period of doubt about being subservient will be seen as a period of weakness, and this bill will be passed with 100% approval.  Just think: President/King Kushner* in power, and he can put anybody who criticizes Israhell in prison, and take all their money.  Hmm...quite possibly, it's a trick.

In other word, if something goes BOOM in Israhell, this bill is perfectly positioned, and that BOOM will make it ROCKET through Congress, right up to the desk of the puppet, shit-for-brains shabbos goy Donnie-boy, who will sign it as President/King Kushner looks down on him.   

In this scenario, this "op-ed" in the Post will, essentially, be the only "debate" that this treacherous bill ever gets.

The more you think about this, you have to see it as just another trick, until proven otherwise.

[yankeedoodle]

Maybe things are changing.

Here's an article from Mondoweiss describing major push-back against this treachery at a Senator's town hall meeting.   Notice that he's afraid of a "movement."

'Pummeled' at town hall, Sen. Wyden says Israel Anti Boycott law is needed because 'movement has grown'
http://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/pummeled-questions-movement/?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=69e2519279-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-69e2519279-398535957&mc_cid=69e2519279&mc_eid=c7cd4a1bd0


And, National Review has an article describing the flip-flop in American politics, in which Democrats now are beginning to oppose Israhell, while Republicans are total dupes for Israhell, particularly the alt-righters who gobble-up the propaganda that Breithbart and "people" like Milo and Cernovich feed them.

Democrats Who Want to Be President Back Away from Israel
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450209/cory-booker-kirsten-gillibrand-move-left-signal-palestinian-sympathies

[maz]

Also you may have noticed that Black Lives Matter types have been showing up at anti-Trump rallies as well. And they have basically position that Arab provacatuer, Linda Sarsour as the spokesperson for the Palestinians and a member of Hamas or whatever. They are trying to make anything anti-Israel an irrational, far left only thing.