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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 44 points 1 day ago (5 children)

How do I boycott Israel in the first place? Not booking my next vacation there? Do I get 20 years in prison for that?

[–] Splenetic@lemm.ee 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It seems like theatre. How will you ever prove that I chose Burger King over McDonalds for political reasons?

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't eat meat. BK has Impossible burgers and McD's doesn't. Of course they've been coming after synthetic meat too in some places. They're throwing a fit because a single-digit % of the population had the audacity to opt out of eating meat derived from animals.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide

Whatever the legal status of officially boycotting Isreal, there's still no law against just incidentally not doing business with the companies.

Before someone says they can't avoid some of these: OK, then boycott the other ones.

Whatever sand you have to throw, throw it in the gears of genocide. Don't just do nothing.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The Constitution says there's also no law against actively and loudly not doing business with the companies

[–] sabo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 21 hours ago

disoccupied.com

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

They make a surprising amount of things. I noticed a woodworking tool I have was made in Israel. Never expected that.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Didn't CU rule that spending money is free speech? So isn't compelling the spending of money compelling speech? Sounds straight up unconstitutional.(as if that fucking matters these days)

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rich people spending money is free speech.

Anti-genocide activists not spending money is terrorism.

AKA the usual.

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[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 20 points 23 hours ago

Wait you first blame us for not having free speach, because lying about the holocaust is illegal and now you ban boycotting Israel for engaging in a de facto genocide?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 97 points 1 day ago (8 children)

How do you outlaw a boycott? It's not an act, it's a non-act. An absence of a purchase. How do you distinguish boycott from just not buying something you don't want or need like any other item. Are we going to be required to put so much of our purchases toward Isreal now?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ding ding ding.

This is how they "lawfully" throw "dissidents" into the gulag.

Remember...most of what Hitler did was technically legal and above-board. Because they controlled the laws and shaped them as they saw fit.

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Wrong think will be punished

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

the state wants to lock you up, figures out you don't drink coca cola, You're on trial for not buying Coca-Cola, or Nestle, or never tried Sabras hummus... straight to jail.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You outlaw a boycott by using violence against those who promote the boycott. It's not even anything new. Many states have already been doing this. Not to mention recent disappearances of anti-genocide activists.

Violence in service of hegemony is almost the entire purpose of the state.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Back in the days the Spanish Inquisition would become suspicious of people who seemed to not eat pork.

In other words, yes, precisely, they're trying to sus out heretics. Don't want to be mistaken for one? Perform the rites publicly, then.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 15 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Well, we now know what death cult is behind the misery of literally the entire world.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How tf do you ban boycotts? What if I just don't want to consoom all the time?

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 17 points 21 hours ago

Probably that is a threat for anyone spreading boycott movement in social media. So if you post McDonald are shit, bad for the health and do not consume them, you are ok. If you post don't go to McDonald because they support a genocide by Israel, then it is another story.

And so the fear begins. Its a first step.

[–] tmcgh@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

Sorry, we checked your recent bank transactions and you haven't spent enough money at [Insert Corporation]. Please pay the $100 fine or serve one day at [Insert Corporation] as a free laborer.

[–] when@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago (4 children)

5 Democrats are cosponsors:

  • Josh Gottheimer - NJ-5
  • Jared Moskowitz - FLA-23
  • Joseph Morrell - NY-25
  • Donald Davis - NC-1
  • Laura Gillen - NY-4

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/867/all-info

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Dear lord. Why are Dems getting involved in pushing fascism?

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There have always been liberal collaborators to fascism, this isn't new.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

First you get people comfortable with defending genocide in another country, then they won't be so resistant when you start doing it in your own country.

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hopefully someone makes a list of brands and companies that you aren't allowed to boycot according to usa republicans and then publishes that list online on a user friendly website. After all, without that information, people might be unknowingly breaking the law when they start a personal boycot.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 64 points 1 day ago

Oh you didn't buy a Soda Stream?
Believe it or not, straight to jail!

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Gosh I wonder how the democrats will vote on this.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 45 points 1 day ago

Fuck this shit, this is intentionally vague to be used as a cudgel

[–] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Can someone explain why Israel is so important to them? Aren’t these the same people who are antisemic? Additionally, how does supporting Israel make the us a Christian nation?

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a lot of evangelicals and orthodox jews, they believe the Third Temple must be built at Temple Mount for the Messiah to return/come. Christians are a death cult and it's part of their eschatology to work towards those ends to bring about the Second Coming and the rise of New Jerusalem/Zion.

In terms of realpolitik Israel is a strategic foothold in an geographically important area rich with resources and trade routes.

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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Evangelical Christianity is a death cult predicated on Israel's existence and eventual destruction.

All those Christian "friends of Israel" long to see every Israeli dead. Because that means the end of the world. White Jesus comes back. A horn is blown. World War ending specifically in fire. Not a flood this time cuz God pinky swore not to.

And everyone except for 144,000 of the most insane Christians is damned to hellfire for all eternity. Jebus rebuilds heaven on Earth.

That's the whole story. From an Exvangelical who was raised in this snake-fuckingly crazy nonsense.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Evangelical Christianity is a death cult predicated on Israel’s existence and eventual destruction.

I.e. simultaneously zionist and antisemitic

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 86 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This is brilliant, you could have the gestasi inspecting everyone at the checkouts at a supermarket, and if you don't buy a Sodastream cartridge, you get disappeared.

(Sodastream is an Israeli company, and used to manufacture their machines in an industrial park in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank)

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Law is summarized as:

Prohibited actions include (1) refusing to do business with companies organized under the laws of the boycotted country, if the refusal is pursuant to an agreement with or request from the country or IGO imposing the boycott; (2) refusing to employ any U.S. person on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin; and (3) furnishing information about whether someone is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So it seems like if you decide not to buy a shirt made in Israel because the EU suggests a boycott, you go to jail and/or get fined. Clear violation of the 1st ammendment.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Practically, how do you prosecute someone for not voluntarily consuming a good or service?

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm guessing you can't but this might be aimed at businesses where there could be memos maybe?

[–] The_Lurker@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

It's for harassment. Even shit lawsuits cost serious money to defend. Yeah, it's unwinnable, but but the company defending might choose to not publicly side with a boycott or engage in one, which is the goal of these apocalypse seeking lunatics.

Also, lawyers don't take civil rights cases anymore since the Supreme Court ruled the lawyer couldn't get paid out of government reparations to the victims. Constitutional violation cases take time and a shit load of money to prosecute, something most victims don't have.

There was a recent decision continuing this trend.

https://studentbriefs.law.gwu.edu/crcl/2024/11/11/the-importance-of-attorneys-fees-in-civil-rights-cases-a-look-at-lackey-v-stinnie/

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[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

How is this to enforced. Is there to be a Israeli mandated amount of product that you would need to buy.

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