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    HOUSTON — The city of Dickinson, Texas, is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel. The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the city’s condition as a violation of free speech rights.
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            <div>3 months 2 weeks&#160;ago</div>
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                <a href="/view/link/146288/TEXAS-CITY-TELLS-PEOPLE-NO-HURRICANE-HARVEY-AID-UNLESS-THEY-PROMISE-NOT-TO-BOYCOTT-ISRAEL#comment428543">Link</a>                    | <a href="" class="quote_link" title="scout::428543">Quote</a>        </div>
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden"><span style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">The city&#8217;s website&#160;</span><a href="http://www.ci.dickinson.tx.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=186" rel="external nofollow" style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">says</a><span style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">&#160;that it is accepting applications from individuals and businesses for grants from money donated for hurricane relief. The&#160;</span><a href="http://www.ci.dickinson.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/2016" rel="external nofollow" style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">application</a><span style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">&#160;says that by signing it, &#8220;the Applicant verifies that the Applicant: (1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this Agreement.&#8221;<br /><br />ffs</span></div>
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        <span style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">The city&#8217;s website&#160;</span><a href="http://www.ci.dickinson.tx.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=186" rel="external nofollow" style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">says</a><span style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">&#160;that it is accepting applications from individuals and businesses for grants from money donated for hurricane relief. The&#160;</span><a href="http://www.ci.dickinson.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/2016" rel="external nofollow" style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">application</a><span style="color:#423a38; font-family:Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Serif&#39;, serif; font-size:18px">&#160;says that by signing it, &#8220;the Applicant verifies that the Applicant: (1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this Agreement.&#8221;<br /><br />ffs</span>
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            Comment #9,656
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                <a href="/view/link/146288/TEXAS-CITY-TELLS-PEOPLE-NO-HURRICANE-HARVEY-AID-UNLESS-THEY-PROMISE-NOT-TO-BOYCOTT-ISRAEL#comment428544">Link</a>                    | <a href="" class="quote_link" title="mmateri::428544">Quote</a>        </div>
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">better that, than pro-arab</div>
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        better that, than pro-arab
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">What does Israel have to do with this? Or someone is getting away with trolling?</div>
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        What does Israel have to do with this? Or someone is getting away with trolling?
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">[quote user=deokanon]What does Israel have to do with this? Or someone is getting away with trolling?[/quote]<br /><br /><br />trolling? Here&#39;s another similar case<br /><br />https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-esther-koontz-aclu-boycott-israel_us_59dfd294e4b04d1d518081f9</div>
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        <div class="quote_holder"><span class="quoted_username">deokanon wrote:</span><div class="quote">What does Israel have to do with this? Or someone is getting away with trolling?</div></div><br /><br /><br />trolling? Here&#39;s another similar case<br /><br /><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-esther-koontz-aclu-boycott-israel_us_59dfd294e4b04d1d518081f9" rel="external nofollow">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-esther-koontz-aclu-boycott-israel_us_59dfd294e4b04d1d518081f9</a>
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">US state governments actually telling you what your political stance should be. Very illegal. But no surprise in the land of the free.</div>
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        US state governments actually telling you what your political stance should be. Very illegal. But no surprise in the land of the free.
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">It&#39;s not a proviso levelled at individual citizens. It&#39;s a lawful precondition put on state governments and corporations that goes all the way back to 1979 following a scrap with the UN and a subsequent<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Israel+Anti-Boycott+act%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1" rel="external nofollow"> bill passed by US congress because it concluded that the &quot;UNHRC targeted Israel with a commercial boycott&quot; and breached the Export Administration Act 1979.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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        It&#39;s not a proviso levelled at individual citizens. It&#39;s a lawful precondition put on state governments and corporations that goes all the way back to 1979 following a scrap with the UN and a subsequent<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Israel+Anti-Boycott+act%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1" rel="external nofollow"> bill passed by US congress because it concluded that the &quot;UNHRC targeted Israel with a commercial boycott&quot; and breached the Export Administration Act 1979.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">Individual states have passed their own &#39;anti bds laws&#39; which, as seen in the 2 cases above, also target individual u.s citizens who support bds. The teacher, Esther Koontz, was required to sign a declaration stating that she did not support boycott and when she refused she was denied a contract to teach math. So yea, it must make Americans feel very small when the tiny little ethnocracy has the`massive democracy by the balls...strange old world we live in.</div>
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        Individual states have passed their own &#39;anti bds laws&#39; which, as seen in the 2 cases above, also target individual u.s citizens who support bds. The teacher, Esther Koontz, was required to sign a declaration stating that she did not support boycott and when she refused she was denied a contract to teach math. So yea, it must make Americans feel very small when the tiny little ethnocracy has the`massive democracy by the balls...strange old world we live in.
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">^ No. Kansas rejected the contract with Esther Koontz over her support of the Israel boycott because Kansas law requires state-contracted employees or companies to file written certification that they are not currently engaged in a boycott of Israel per federal law.</div>
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        ^ No. Kansas rejected the contract with Esther Koontz over her support of the Israel boycott because Kansas law requires state-contracted employees or companies to file written certification that they are not currently engaged in a boycott of Israel per federal law.
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">^No need to be so anal....i appreciated your link even though it was kinda off in regards to the original post...thanks anyway, Brig</div>
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        ^No need to be so anal....i appreciated your link even though it was kinda off in regards to the original post...thanks anyway, Brig
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">This is so stupid. How is one singular citizen going to boycott an entire nation? It is nice to have the freedom to berate some ethnicities except the state of Israel.</div>
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        This is so stupid. How is one singular citizen going to boycott an entire nation? It is nice to have the freedom to berate some ethnicities except the state of Israel.
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">[quote user=deokanon]This is so stupid. How is one singular citizen going to boycott an entire nation?[/quote]<br /><br />Easy. Just don&#39;t buy their stuff.<br /><br />Hard part is knowing what is and isn&#39;t made in Israel.<br /><br />Of course one or a few people not buying Israels&#39; products won&#39;t hurt them at all. <br /><br />But apparently the governments of some US states are so concerned about this idea gaining momentum that they actively need to suppress it.<br /><br />Which is odd, because in a free society you&#39;d think people should be able to make their own political choices without repercussion from the government.</div>
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        <div class="quote_holder"><span class="quoted_username">deokanon wrote:</span><div class="quote">This is so stupid. How is one singular citizen going to boycott an entire nation?</div></div><br /><br />Easy. Just don&#39;t buy their stuff.<br /><br />Hard part is knowing what is and isn&#39;t made in Israel.<br /><br />Of course one or a few people not buying Israels&#39; products won&#39;t hurt them at all. <br /><br />But apparently the governments of some US states are so concerned about this idea gaining momentum that they actively need to suppress it.<br /><br />Which is odd, because in a free society you&#39;d think people should be able to make their own political choices without repercussion from the government.
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">BDS actually scares the shit out of the zionist entity and that&#39;s why the zionist lobby in the &#39;greatest democracy on Earth&#39; is pushing hard to have these anti BDS laws passed but these laws are starting to backfire on them...</div>
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        BDS actually scares the shit out of the zionist entity and that&#39;s why the zionist lobby in the &#39;greatest democracy on Earth&#39; is pushing hard to have these anti BDS laws passed but these laws are starting to backfire on them...
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">I bet you wouldn&#39;t boycott stem cells if you needed them.........just saying. Although Scout might because he is a mega-moron.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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        I bet you wouldn&#39;t boycott stem cells if you needed them.........just saying. Although Scout might because he is a mega-moron.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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    <div class="TAN-comment-quoteable hidden">[quote user=scout]BDS actually scares the shit out of the zionist entity and that&#39;s why the zionist lobby in the &#39;greatest democracy on Earth&#39; is pushing hard to have these anti BDS laws passed but these laws are starting to backfire on them...[/quote]<br /><br />Zionism...so 2004.</div>
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        <div class="quote_holder"><span class="quoted_username">scout wrote:</span><div class="quote">BDS actually scares the shit out of the zionist entity and that&#39;s why the zionist lobby in the &#39;greatest democracy on Earth&#39; is pushing hard to have these anti BDS laws passed but these laws are starting to backfire on them...</div></div><br /><br />Zionism...so 2004.
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