Similar laws exclude those who discriminate against blacks for political (or any other) reasons from government contracts. This person is entitled to discriminate as he chooses, but not to get government contracts.
Discrimination against blacks is illegal in the context of denying individuals things like employment, access to housing and medical care, shopping, etc. You have to show that the individual or business has specifically taken action in some way to deny one or more individuals their rights.
In fact, the same rules apply to discrimination based on religion, or national origin or background. So anyone who has discriminated against someone who is Jewish or from Israel is subject to similar liability.
But nowhere in any of these laws does it say that a business has to promise to never protest or disagree with the country that one of those groups come from. I have to hire people from France if they’re qualified, but I’m also allowed to protest the French government’s policies on basically anything.
If the law from this article was applied to, say, Saudi Arabia or Mexico, would we be comfortable supporting it?
Keep this in mind.
> but I’m also allowed to protest the French government’s policies on basically anything.
So are you allowed to protest the French government by boycotting French companies? Ie. not doing business with French people? The first half of your sentence is directly at odds with the second. How do you actually boycott France if not by applying the boycott to it's people?
The Israeli boycott isn't simply saying you don't agree with their government, it's actively boycotting companies run by Israeli Jews and not hiring Israeli Jews.
That's simply not true. The Texas law does not say anything about boycotts against Jews. And BDS is modeled after the successful Apartheid boycotts, which were boycotts of South Africa, not boycotts of companies run by White South Africans.
I find BDS problematic, but saying you can’t boycott a group of businesses for political reasons is anathema to the spirit of free speech and protest. For the same reason,’it is perfectly fine to boycott Saudi Arabian businesses for their national political policies, even though in practice that means not doing business with Saudi Muslims.
Conflating the behavior of "Jews" with the behavior of the "State of Israel" is racist.
You just did that. He didnt. Neither did BDS.
> Virtually all Israeli companies are complicit to some degree in Israel’s system of occupation and apartheid.
From https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott
Last dropdown link at the bottom of the page.
It's clear that BDS is the precipitating cause of this law, and so it's reasonable to look at BDS as the way that this was put into place, but the law itself doesn't have anything to do with BDS, and so it's not relevant to talk about BDS in the context of its effects on people today.
We both know that calling a boycott of "nearly every American" company an "attack on the white race" would be a racist wolf whistle, and not a particularly subtle one.
Yours is no different.
Israeli != Jew.
There's plenty of Muslim, Christian and secular Israelis. Stop conflating religion and nationality.
Please, people are way more sympathetic towards Taiwan than to Israel or Jews in general. The US government basically ensure's Taiwan's safety and independence, if it were up to half the people in the US, Israel would cease to exist (and there's no need to say what would happen to the Jews who currently live there, no matter what you believe about their right to be there).
Israel's setup is quite similar.
> if it were up to half the people in the US, Israel would cease to exist
https://today.yougov.com/topics/international/articles-repor...
"Most Americans believe helping to protect Israel should be an important goal of American policy toward the Middle East. On this, Democrats (59%), Republicans (64%), and Independents (79%) agree. However, the latest Economist/YouGov poll underscores the differences in opinions about Israel between Republicans and Democrats."
That's a pretty far cry from what you're asserting.
If you can't see that before spewing out your hot take we can't help you
From: https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-letter-opposing-s-1-combati...
If you prefer, the "Jews for Peace" organization probably employ at least one Jew.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
You cannot discriminate against an Israeli on the basis of either. You can discriminate against Israel as a state.
> A part of the Immigration and Nationality Act, found at 8 U.S.C. section 1324b, prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals based on their citizenship or immigration status, or their national origin, during the hiring, firing, recruiting, Form I-9, or E-Verify processes.
> Employers cannot discriminate against individuals when hiring, firing, or recruiting based on the individual’s place of birth, country of origin, ancestry, native language, accent, or because they are perceived as looking or sounding “foreign.”
> Employers cannot discriminate against individuals when hiring, firing, or recruiting because the individuals are or are not U.S. citizens, or because of their immigration status or type of employment authorization. U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals, asylees, refugees, and recent permanent residents are protected from this type of discrimination.
There are exceptions if you're, say, working on ICBMs.