New York Governor Signs Executive Order Not Outlawing Criticism of Israel

[Chris]

Rothschild Zionism hard at work

http://yournewswire.com/new-york-governor-signs-executive-order-outlawing-criticism-of-israel/

“We are also a place of action,” he said. “We want to take immediate action because we want Israel to know that we’re on their side. If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you.”

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The executive order will instruct the Office of General Services to compile a list over the next six months of groups, businesses and individuals supporting the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement, according to Haaretz.

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After completion of the process, executive-branch companies will be required to distance themselves from any organization or person on the list.

“The State of New York will not permit its own investment activity to further the BDS campaign in any way, shape or form, whether directly or indirectly,” the order states.

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Legal organizations have previously called attempts to push forward anti-BDS legislation “21st Century McCarthyism,” and warned that it would create a “blacklist” of human rights advocates, mirroring the treatment of those who campaigned against Apartheid in South Africa.

The Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers Guild, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Palestinian Legal have continuously called anti-BDS pressure politically motivated and an attack on the freedom of speech.

The New York legislature attempted to push through an anti-boycott motion for months due to pressure from pro-Israel lobby groups, but was unsuccessful.

The latest move by Cuomo has widely been seen as an attempt to sidestep the legal process and implement the policy on his own, Salon reports.

Last month, an anti-boycott bill pending in the New York senate was revoked after more 100 organizations signed a letter to the Albany offices of all New York state assembly and senate members condemning the proposal, which they said would create“unconstitutional blacklists.”

Attorney Rahul Saksena told Salon back in January it was“frightening” that there could be state employees “scouring the internet for pro-BDS Facebook posts, tweets and news articles.”

“It’s 21st Century McCarthyism,” Saksena said at the time. “The government cannot punish individuals and entities because of their speech and political views.”

On Sunday, Cuomo signed the executive order after attending a parade “in solidarity with Israel.”

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Right-wing organizations such as “StandWithUs” and Christian Zionist group “Christians United for Israel” and “Proclaiming Justice to the Nations” have continuously called on US politicians to pass anti-BDS legislation.

The latest move comes after California passed an anti-BDS bill in the first of many steps of the state’s legislative process in April.

Canada also passed an anti-boycott motion this year after a bill introduced by members of the Conservative Party gained popularity across the board.

The BDS movement has cost Israel’s economy an estimated $1.4 billion a year, according to the Financial Times.

A study by US think-tank, the Rand Corporation, however, says the number could be more than three times higher at $47 billion over 10 years.

[Chris]

Hey mod- when you edit my thread title and delete my threads, a reason would be terrific. This ghost mod editing and deleting shit is the very definition of whats wrong with this country.

[Chris]

Seriously, that's some cowardly shit.

[Th'Pusher]

Hey mod- when you edit my thread title and delete my threads, a reason would be terrific. This ghost mod editing and deleting shit is the very definition of whats wrong with this country.

clearly the spurstalk mod is in on the conspiracy.

What at was your thread title previously? This new one is confusing as hell.

[Wild Cobra]

I don't see a problem with the bill.

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A.8220&term=2015&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Votes=Y&Text=Y

If you are in commerce, then you shouldn't be allowed to play if you are also a bigot.

This bill is not so different than a law saying organizations that support the KKK cannot get state contracts.

Or... Christian businesses cannot refuse service to gay couples.

[Wild Cobra]

Hey mod- when you edit my thread title and delete my threads, a reason would be terrific. This ghost mod editing and deleting shit is the very definition of whats wrong with this country.

The title had to be pretty damn bad to get edited here...

You must have some major bigoted malfunctions.

[boutons_deux]

Seriously, that's some cowardly shit.

amazing that all the lawyers Cuomo must have, that he can't see how this will be knocked down in the courts, apart from all the ill will it generates. Cuomo is a whore to NY Jews/APAIC

[Splits]

Andrew Cuomo and Other Democrats Launch Severe Attack on Free Speech to Protect Israel (https://theintercept.com/2016/06/06/andrew-cuomo-and-other-democrats-launch-severe-attack-on-free-speech-to-protect-israel/)


ONE OF THE greatest free speech threats in the West (https://theintercept.com/2016/02/16/greatest-threat-to-free-speech-in-the-west-criminalizing-activism-against-israeli-occupation/) is the growing, multi-nation campaign literally to outlaw advocacy of boycotting Israel. People get arrested in Paris (http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/323207/france-court-upholds-bds-is-discrimination-ruling/) — the site of the 2015 “free speech” (for Muslim critics) rally — for wearing pro-boycott T-shirts. Pro-boycott students on U.S. campuses — where the 1980s boycott of apartheid South Africa flourished — are routinely sanctioned (http://ccrjustice.org/the-palestine-exception) for violating anti-discrimination policies. Canadian officials havethreatened to criminally prosecute (https://theintercept.com/2015/05/11/canadian-covernment-exploiting-charlie-hebdo-attack-threatens-prosecute-advocates-israel-boycott/) boycott advocates. British government bodies have legally barred (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/israel-boycott-local-councils-public-bodies-and-student-unions-to-be-banned-from-shunning-israeli-a6874006.html) certain types of boycott advocacy. Israel itself hasoutright criminalized (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-passes-law-banning-calls-for-boycott-1.372711) advocacy of such boycotts. Notably, all of this has been undertaken with barely a peep from those who styled themselves free speech crusaders when it came time to defend anti-Muslim cartoons.

But now, New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo (above, in the 2016 Celebrate Israel Parade) has significantly escalated this free speech attack on U.S. soil, aimed at U.S. citizens. The prince of the New York political dynasty yesterday issued an executive order directing all agencies (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/nyregion/cuomo-new-york-israel-boycott-bds-movement.html) under his control to terminate any and all business with companies or organizations that support a boycott of Israel. It ensures that citizens who hold and express a particular view are punished through the denial of benefits that other citizens enjoy: a classic free speech violation (imagine if Cuomo issued an order stating that “anyone who expresses conservative viewpoints shall have all state benefits immediately terminated”).

Even more disturbing, Cuomo’s executive order (https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-157-directing-state-agencies-and-authorities-divest-public-funds-supporting-bds-campaign) requires that one of his commissioners compile “a list of institutions and companies” that — “either directly or through a parent or subsidiary” — support a boycott. That government list is then posted publicly, and the burden falls on them to prove to the state that they do not, in fact, support such a boycott. Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, told The Intercept: “Whenever the government creates a blacklist based on political views it raises serious First Amendment concerns and this is no exception.”Reason’s Robby Soave denounced it (http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/06/andrew-cuomos-executive-order-on-israel) today as “brazenly autocratic.”

To read the relevant provisions of Cuomo’s order is to confront the mentality of petty censoring tyranny, flavored with McCarthyite public shaming, in its purest form. See for yourself:

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Making matters worse still is the imperious nature of Cuomo’s order. AsSalon’s Ben Norton noted (http://www.salon.com/2016/06/05/ny_gov_cuomo_signing_unconstitutional_mccarthyite_ pro_israel_exec_order_punishing_bds_boycott_moveme nt/), “The New York legislature has unsuccessfully tried to push through (http://www.salon.com/2016/05/05/lawmakers_waging_mccarthyite_attack_on_right_to_bo ycott_legal_groups_warn_as_israel_bds_movement_gro ws/) anti-boycott legislation for months.” So instead, Cuomo just unilaterally decreed this punishment of boycott advocates.

New York’s Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer wasted no time, now demanding a federal statute (http://jewishinsider.com/8277/cuomo-signs-executive-order-to-fight-bds/) that tracks Cuomo’s order. Hillary Clinton, last July, wrote a public letter (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-letter-support-israel-donor-haim-saban-bds-119770) to her (and the Democratic Party’s) billionaire supporter, self-described Israel fanatic Haim Saban, endorsing the core principle of this censorship effort — that boycotting Israel is a form of anti-Semitism — and did so again (https://theintercept.com/2016/03/22/clinton-attacks-israeli-boycott-movement-in-aipac-speech/) in her March speech before AIPAC. Numerous Republicans support similar measures.

Beyond the McCarthyism and profound free speech threat, the stench of hypocrisy of Cuomo and Democrats is suffocating. Just over two months ago, Cuomo banned state officials from traveling to North Carolina in order to support the boycott against that American state (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/29/472268519/n-y-governor-bans-most-state-travel-to-north-carolina-over-lgbt-law) in protest over its anti-transgender law. That pro-boycott executive order (https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/EO_155_0.pdf) from Cuomo began by proclaiming that “New York state is a national leader in protecting the civil rights and liberties of all of its citizens” and thus barred “publicly funded travel” to North Carolina.

But in justifying this punishment for Israel critics, Cuomo’s counsel told the New York Times: “It’s one thing to say I want to engage in political speech. It’s another thing to say I’m going to sanction you or penalize you for engaging in commercial activity.” But that — “I’m going to sanction you or penalize you for engaging in commercial activity” — is exactly what Cuomo did just two months ago by boycotting North Carolina. Think about how warped that is: To the governor of New York, it’s not only permissible but noble to boycott an American state, but it’s immoral and worthy of punishment to boycott Israel, a foreign country guilty of a decadeslong brutal and illegal occupation. Questions submitted by The Intercept to Cuomo were not answered as of publication.

More ironic still is that Cuomo, in imposing a boycott of North Carolina, said he was doing so because in “a free society the equal rights of all citizens … must be protected and cherished” — exactly the principle that the boycott of Israel is seeking to fulfill by ending oppression and discrimination against Palestinians. But even if you disagree with the Israel boycott itself, no rational person should want Andrew Cuomo and other elected officials to have the power to dictate which political views are acceptable and which ones result in denial of state benefits.

The free speech hypocrisy on the part of all sorts of people here is obvious. In 2012, conservatives were furious when Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he would block the restaurant chain Chick-fil-A from expanding in the city as punishment for its owner’s anti-gay activism, depicting this move as a grave threat to free speech (a position we shared (http://www.salon.com/2012/07/26/rahm_emanuels_free_speech_attack/)).

Throughout 2015, pundits such as New York’s Jonathan Chait wrapped themselves in the free speech flag when it came time to defend racist and anti-gay speech on campus, insisting that all forms of speech, even “hate speech,” should be protected (positions we also share (https://www.thefire.org/so-to-speak-the-free-speech-podcast-glenn-greenwald-on-defending-my-enemy/)).

Yet now, a systematic, international campaign — fully bipartisan in the U.S. — is being implemented to abuse state resources and the force of law for a full-frontal assault on free speech and free assembly rights, and virtually none of them is objecting because it’s all in service of protecting Israel from criticism. It’s bizarre enough that someone gets elected as governor of New York and then believes it’s part of his job to shield Israel from criticism. That he does so by assaulting the free speech rights of citizens of his own country — just weeks after imposing a boycott on another American state — tells you all you need to know about the role Israel continues to play in American discourse and the willingness of people to stomp on free speech principles the moment doing so benefits their political goals.

[Pelicans78]

I don't see a problem with the bill.

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A.8220&term=2015&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Votes=Y&Text=Y

If you are in commerce, then you shouldn't be allowed to play if you are also a bigot.

This bill is not so different than a law saying organizations that support the KKK cannot get state contracts.

Or... Christian businesses cannot refuse service to gay couples.

Criticizing Israel doesn't have to be racism.

[RandomGuy]

Seriously, that's some cowardly shit.

"New York Governor Signs Executive Order Not Outlawing Criticism of Israel"

So the executive order does NOT outlaw criticism?

[Winehole23]

A restriction of one’s ability to participate in collective calls to oppose Israel unquestionably burdens the protected expression of companies wishing to engage in such a boycott...The type of collective action targeted ...specifically implicates the rights of assembly and association that Americans and Arizonans use ‘to bring about political, social and economic change

https://www.acluaz.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/order_granting_plaintiffs_motion_for_preliminary_i njunction.pdf

enforcement also blocked in Kansas: https://www.aclu.org/news/first-judge-blocks-kansas-law-aimed-boycotts-israel

[Winehole23]

Hey mod- when you edit my thread title and delete my threads, a reason would be terrific. This ghost mod editing and deleting shit is the very definition of whats wrong with this country.what did the ghost mod do to your thread title?

[hater]

Cuomo is a piece of shit

[Spurtacular]

Hey mod- when you edit my thread title and delete my threads, a reason would be terrific. This ghost mod editing and deleting shit is the very definition of whats wrong with this country.

The current title doesn't match the OP; I was trying to figure the disconnect til seeing this.

[Blake]

Hey mod- when you edit my thread title and delete my threads, a reason would be terrific. This ghost mod editing and deleting shit is the very definition of whats wrong with this country.

:lol

[boutons_deux]

"If you are in commerce, then you shouldn't be allowed to play if you are also a bigot."

Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil 'A are "deeply held belief" bigots, and SCOTUS5 says, settled law, go do bigotry. we're cool with it.

[Blake]

"If you are in commerce, then you shouldn't be allowed to play if you are also a bigot."

Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil 'A are "deeply held belief" bigots, and SCOTUS5 says, settled law, go do bigotry. we're cool with it.




The gays don't count

[boutons_deux]

The gays don't count

nor does women's birth control and medicated abortion

[Winehole23]

The current title doesn't match the OP; I was trying to figure the disconnect til seeing this.the current title does match the result:


Six months after the executive order, OGS released (https://www.politicopro.com/states/new-york/city-hall/whiteboard/2016/12/cuomo-releases-bds-blacklist-8609595) the list, at 8 p.m. last Friday night, without so much as a press advisory.The document was simply a numbered list of 13 companies on OGS letterhead, with no introduction, under the heading, "Institutions or Companies Determined to Participate in Boycott, Divestment, or Sanctions Activity Targeting Israel. (http://www.ogs.ny.gov/eo/157/Docs/EO157_Institutions_Companies_List.pdf)"

The list did not include any American companies, and two of the 13 are subsidiaries of two others, making it closer to 11 companies the state will boycott — several of which told POLITICO New York they were either unaware of their inclusion, or that they do not, in fact, boycott Israel...

None of the groups on the list have any investments or contracts with executive-controlled state agencies, according to OGS press officer Heather Groll...

Some of the companies questioned their inclusion on the list, saying they do not boycott Israel, and, in many cases, have investments there.

"We were unaware of the list and are investigating the matter. We regret that we are included," wrote Suzette Schreuder, a press officer for Royal HaskoningDHV, an engineering firm based in the Netherlands. "Royal HaskoningDHV does not boycott Israel and has been working on projects in the country for water, the environment and infrastructure for many years."
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2016/12/muted-release-of-and-mixed-reaction-to-cuomos-bds-blacklist-107815

[Spurtacular]

The gays don't count

:lol Cuck

[Chucho]

"If you are in commerce, then you shouldn't be allowed to play if you are also a bigot."

Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil 'A are "deeply held belief" bigots, and SCOTUS5 says, settled law, go do bigotry. we're cool with it.




You're a fucking idiot.