By Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy May 14 at 7:22 PM Mitch McConnell is the Senate majority leader. Kevin McCarthy is the House Republican leader.
State and local leaders across the nation are stepping up and taking action to ensure that the taxpayers they represent are not made unwilling participants in the BDS movement. In the House and Senate here in Washington, we have worked together to champion bipartisan legislation that would prevent the federal government from obstructing those state and local efforts. It is past time for the legislation to become law.
The anti-Semitic bigotry masquerading as principled activism clashes with core principles that Americans have held dear since the nation’s founding. As early as 1790, in a letter to a Hebrew congregation in Rhode Island, President George Washington famously insisted that the government must give “bigotry no sanction.” Surely this common-sense, universal principle must still apply today — to all men and women of all races, religions and abilities.
Both of us are committed champions of the First Amendment and recognize that any state and local action would need to carefully balance individuals’ freedom of speech and expression with the public’s right not to be co-opted into bankrolling an anti-Semitic boycott. This legislation ensures this important process cannot be short-circuited by BDS proponents citing federal supremacy over foreign policies.
Opinion: Nah
“Democracy Dies When You Boycott a Country That Does War Crimes”
oh well if mitch mcconnell, the man who only ever argues in good faith, says it, i guess we better all capitulate!!!
What the fuck
for anyone interesting in helping
Naw, gonna actively pursue BDS causes to endure I’m not accidentally purchasing any Israeli products.
The Apartheid Post at it again. Remind me, how many times did you fuckers call Nelson Mandela a terrorist too?
Opinion | FLAVIUS FLAVIANUS: The Senate must stand for the 1st Amendment and oppose state anti-BDS
The house must stand with the south africans in their apartheid.
Republicans are anti-free speech. BDS is as American as it gets.
Democracy dies in our rag
Aka: censor opposition
Really don’t care about Israel
Yeah, I support BDS Beleting Dis Shitty article
'democracy dies in darkness' lol
Freedom if speech is guaranteed in the first amendment of the constitution & Senators take an oath to defend the Constitution... Does not compute.
Naw, I'd rather stand against the toxic right wing government of Israel
We wouldn’t have to boycott them if they stopped murdering children and occupying other people’s land
Wait, is he mad about the boycotts of South Africa or some other apartheid state?
No the house must not. White power... BDS
Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are anti-free speech. I'm a Republican but this is fucking disgusting.
Republicans are such shabbos goys lmao
You guys wanna publish an op-ed reminiscing wistfully about apartheid South Africa while you are at it
WOMP WOMP
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support BDS, BOYCOTT ISREAL, THE ZIONISTS ARE NOT THE CHOSEN ONES, THE DEVIL SPEAKS TO THEM.
I’ll boycott anything I want
the terrorist government of Israel & its war criminal (& plain old criminal) leader Netanyahu, aided by its servile lapdogs in Congress & in statehouses across the nation, will brook no opposition to its Nazi techniques in committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
Solution, stop perpetrating lies intended to incite violence, which is what Trump & Republican do every single day. Ask one question to all Republican activities, ' Does it help Putin? ' Rarely is the answer no.
Mitch McConnells state has half the population of Long Island, how is this guy able to hinder progress so much.
From the people who brought you: Our 1A rights are under attack; were being banned on Twitter!!!! Bring you: Okay so we need to make it illegal, punishable by jailtime, to publicly criticize a foreign country.
That's a dumb ass opinion. Boycotting Israel is not hatred of Jewish people. Israel is a country, not a religion. They're a country with a far right government which must be opposed and the BDS movement is a peaceful way to do just that. It helped end apartheid in South Africa
BDS toxic? No, BDS is the cure for the disease!
it’s 840am where I am and I’ve already had more than my daily recommended dosage of gaslighting so I’m going to have to pass
Yeah, screw the first amendment
But it is hard, as ultra left dominating in Democrat party, are anti-semites, anarchy and socialism supporters and Israel haters.
WHEN DID A PACK RACE HATING WHITE SUPREMACIST REPUBLICANS ALL OF A SUDDEN BECOME SO INTERESTED IN TAKING A STAND AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM HYPOCRISY IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR REPUBLICANS
toxic movement? dont you mean 1st amendment right to boycott? we are in dark times where ANY criticism of a specific nation state is condemned.
It’s not anti Semitic to criticize Israel’s foreign policy. How hard is this to grasp. Oh wait, it’s the profoundly disingenuous senatemajldr and GOPLeader talking.
McConnell and McCarthy have ZERO credibility...I'd bet this has more to do w/ political donations, since neither man has any ethics...
I'm with McConnell and McCarthy on this one. The House must stand against the toxic BTS movement.
Taking another country's territory by force should not be allowed, apartheid should not be allowed.
The goals of BDS is pretty clear, it wasn't secretive nor hidden. Why the West are afraid of the BDS?
Maybe it could stand against subsidising the wholesale persecution of the Palestinian people by the brutal Israeli regime & the murderous IDF ?
The top causes of poison in our government don’t get to lecture anyone about toxicity.
Facts need to be presented. We don’t make national security decisions on hype
🖕🏽🖕🏽 the GOP
the guys blocking voting rights, judge hearings and on favor of pumpkin pinochet shouldn't have the right to call anything Toxic (or to being given a megaphone to try to shut down apartheid critics, WTF NYtimes?)
Because heaven forbid we allow freedom of speech in the US
BDS will be a major plank in the DNC 2020 Presidential Platform.
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