{"id":356682,"date":"2018-04-14T02:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T01:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-hurricane-relief-after-hurricane-harvey-if-you-were-not-pro-israel\/"},"modified":"2018-04-14T02:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T01:47:58","slug":"no-hurricane-relief-after-hurricane-harvey-if-you-were-not-pro-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-hurricane-relief-after-hurricane-harvey-if-you-were-not-pro-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"No Hurricane Relief After Hurricane Harvey&#8230;If You Were Not Pro-Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A city in Texas is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel, spurring criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p>The website for Dickinson is accepting applications for individuals and businesses who need assistance following the devastating August hurricane.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.dickinson.tx.us\/DocumentCenter\/View\/2016\" target=\"_blank\">According to the application<\/a>, those who sign must verify that the applicant \u201c(1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this Agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson City Management assistant Bryan Milward attributed the clause to a state law, signed in May, that requires all state contractors to certify that they are not participating in boycotts of Israel. Milward emphasized that the city will not be verifying compliance with the clause and said he doesn\u2019t expect any applications to be rejected because of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause our application also functions as a contract, it was included in there,\u201d Milward told JTA on Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re not checking up on that. Our city secretary is not digging into anyone\u2019s background. We\u2019re not running background checks or anything like that. They\u2019re attesting that they\u2019re not boycotting, and we\u2019re accepting that based on good faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson, a city of about 19,000, was hit especially hard by Harvey. More than three-quarters of its homes were damaged by the hurricane, and 830 were destroyed, according to Milward.<\/p>\n<p>ACLU calls the Dickinson&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/no-hurricane-relief-after-hurricane-harvey-if-you-were-not-pro-israel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city in Texas is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel, spurring criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union. The website for Dickinson is accepting applications for individuals and businesses who need assistance following the devastating August hurricane.\u00a0According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356682","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}