{"id":225822,"date":"2016-02-18T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/strangling-the-israel-boycott\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:17:16","slug":"strangling-the-israel-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/strangling-the-israel-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangling the Israel Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"168.69095010616\">\n<p>Brushing aside the free-speech rights of Americans, Sen. Mark Kirk and other members of the U.S. Congress are pushing Zionist-demanded legislation to stifle a boycott movement aimed at pressuring Israel to stop oppressing Palestinians, as Lawrence Davidson explains.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-17241\"\/>By Lawrence Davidson<\/p>\n<p>It was bound to happen \u2013 an attempt by the U.S. Congress to support the attacks on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement already taking place in some states and municipalities. The strategy is to legitimize an increasingly standard approach to undermining the boycott of Israel, an approach wherein the investment of any state funds, including pension funds, in any business or organization that boycotts the Zionist state is forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>Bipartisan pairs in Congress \u2013 Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Congressional Representatives Robert Dold, R-Illinois, and Juan Vargas, D-California \u2013 introduced into both houses the <em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/josh-ruebner\/congress-encouraging-us-states-combat-bds\"><u>Combating BDS Act of 2016<\/u><\/a>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/senate-bill\/2531\"><u>S.2531<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/4514\"><u>H.R.4514<\/u><\/a>). We can be sure that all four of them are doing this at the coordinated behest of Zionist special interests to which they are financially tied.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10619\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-kirk.jpg?82332e\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10619\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?82332e\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mark-kirk-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois.\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10619\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mark-kirk-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois.\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In other words, acting in their official capacity, these members of Congress are engaged in paying back their Zionist benefactors who have helped facilitate money and other forms of election assistance by doing what the patrons want on things that touch on Israel-Palestine. Sadly, this is the way the U.S. campaign system works. Unless you are very wealthy, you are constantly scrounging for money. Under such circumstances one\u2019s pathway to success is made easier if you don\u2019t know the difference between your ethics and your elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The four sponsors of the \u201cCombating BDS Act\u201d would, of course, deny any such tainted motives. Rather, they would insist that theirs is an effort to weigh in against anti-Semitism and defend the integrity the \u201conly democracy in the Middle East.\u201d If they really believe this is so, the kindest thing that can be said for these legislators is that they are profoundly ignorant about Israel and its true character. It is also possible that they know the truth about their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/02\/17\/strangling-the-israel-boycott\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brushing aside the free-speech rights of Americans, Sen. Mark Kirk and other members of the U.S. Congress are pushing Zionist-demanded legislation to stifle a boycott movement aimed at pressuring Israel to stop oppressing Palestinians, as Lawrence Davidson explains. By Lawrence Davidson It was bound to happen \u2013 an attempt by the U.S. Congress to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}