Its illegal to boycott israel in some states in America but legal to boycott America in America. Makes you think
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No, it's blacklisting companies participating in enemy action. BDS is not an organic campaign, but a specifically hostile action using the domestic population of the US as a weapon against an ally, fostered, funded, and organized by both terrorist organizations and hostile governments.
If the BDS movement was targeting Canada instead of Israel, with everything else the same, then I would remain completely comfortable with stopping the US governments from funding enemy action. Frankly, it would be more important to do that because Canada is a closer ally than Israel.
Different issue. This is, again, about refusing to give state funds. Not black-listing. No one is entitled to state funding (of which funding should be severely reduced). Anti-BDS isn't compelling anyone to actually make a transaction, your example is.
Boycotting Israel within the US is not "enemy action." If BDS as an organization is an enemy than it can be outlawed. These laws will affect anyone who wants to boycott Israel for any reason, not just someone affiliated with BDS.
And what if it was just someone who boycotted Bud Lite, for example? Should the state refuse to award contracts to someone who does that?
They typically aren't. Even back in the day when I was more Left-wing, I read the laws and they explicitly specify being part of the BDS movement itself. Just refusing to do business with Israel is not enough, and implicitly refusing is entirely unenforceable.
This still isn't related to anti-BDS, or anything around it.
You're better off talking about federal funds to abortion providers versus planned parenthood.
As enacted, prohibits a public entity from entering into a contract with a company unless the contract includes a written certification that the company is not currently engaged in, and will not for the duration of the contract engage in, a boycott of Israel
Nope. There are "anti-BDS" laws that just generically strong arm companies into not boycotting Israel.
Okay, and can you tell me what evidence there is of not buying something from Israel?
There isn't. You physically can't get any.
This is why the point is to stop an organized BDS effort. This is also because a ton of the Arab states that did engage in boycotting Israel, publicly declared their intentions to do so as part of an organized boycott to economically damage the country so it could be invaded.
The real issue here is that the Arab states will many times require companies to boycott Israel in order to operate within the country, as per the organized economic warfare effort.
Hence, why this BDS law stops those companies from participating in the organized economic war against Israel. You know, enemy action.
"I don't want to buy bagels from you, neener neener joo-joo", is not going to be covered by this, and couldn't be enforced.