Should the US Congress be entertaining legislation that proposes to outlaw free speech or free exercise of...
Should the US Congress be entertaining legislation that proposes to outlaw free speech or free exercise of conscience? Originally shared by **** U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as “the #Palestine Exception” to free speech. But now, a group...