Far-right Rep. Lauren Boeberg added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS boycott movement against Israel.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    What does that even mean

    Like, seriously, how is that even gonna be enforced? How do you ban a boycott? Genuinely curious. I’m fascinated to hear how they propose to detect and enforce and legally defend prosecution of people under that law, because it’s prima facie complete nonsense.

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      4 days ago

      It works because they could prosecute anyone organizing, or encouraging the boycott. A boycott isn’t just “not buying stuff”. For real effect, you need a public campaign. This is obviously 100% an issue of free speech.