The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, sponsored by Sen. Cardin, supported by 45 Senators and 237 congressmen, will criminalize the boycott of goods and services from the state of Israel.
Source: Congress.gov
If American citizens happen to defy this law, if approved, they will be fined a minimum of $250,000, and a maximum of $1 million plus 20 years in prison, designated for persons “engaged in interstate or foreign commerce.”
The bill is said to be purposed to countermand a potential UN resolution that will prevent trade with East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. The idea behind the bill would be to prevent any American from joining the fray.
The ACLU takes exception to the bill, saying it’s a direct violation of the First Amendment.
“In short, the bill would punish businesses and individuals solely based on their point of view,” it wrote. “Such a penalty is in direct violation of the First Amendment.”
The bill, rumored to have been written by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has garnered widespread bipartisan support. Finally, Congress has found something they could agree on.
Here you can see an AIPAC infographic highlighting this bill as part of their top lobbying priorities for 2017.
Thus far, 45 US Senators and 237 congressmen (63 dems, 174 republitards) support the measure.
The ACLU is actively lobbying opposition to this bill. Thus far, zero lawmakers have sided with them.
Amusingly, the sponsor of this bill, Senator Cardin, doesn’t seem to know anything about the bill, when approached by a reporter at The Intercept.
The Intercept weighs in on the potential penalties that will be imposed on American citizens if passed.
That’s because, as Josh Ruebner expertly detailed when the bill was first unveiled, “the bill seeks to amend two laws — the Export Administration Act of 1979 and the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945,” and “the potential penalties for violating this bill are steep: a minimum $250,000 civil penalty and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years imprisonment, as stipulated in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.”
Indeed, to see how serious the penalties are, and how clear it is that those penalties are imposed by this bill, one can just compare the bill’s text in Section 8(a), which provides that violators will be “fined in accordance with Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705),” to the penalty provisions of that law, which state:
That the bill refers to the fine, but not the prison sentence, is not enough to prevent a judge from applying the statute’s prison term, because the bill brings the statute into play, said Faiz Shakir, the ACLU’s political director, who authored the letter to the Senate. “The referral to the statute keeps criminal penalties in play, regardless of what their preference for punishment might be,” said Shakir.
The bill also extends the current prohibition on participating in boycotts sponsored by foreign governments to cover boycotts from international organizations such as the U.N. and the European Union. It also explicitly extends the boycott ban from Israel generally to any parts of Israel, including the settlements. For that reason, Ruebner explains, the bill — by design — would outlaw “campaigns by the Palestine solidarity movement to pressure corporations to cut ties to Israel or even with Israeli settlements.”
Back in March, the State of Israel banned any persons from entering the country who supported the boycott of goods and services from Israel. However, unlike the American version of the bill, the bill does not apply to citizen of Israel or those with permanent residency.
Late Monday the Israeli parliament passed the bill 46 to 28 opposed. The ban will target individuals who publicly call for a boycott of Israel or Israeli goods, including goods made in West Bank or East Jerusalem settlements, which the majority of the international community considers to be illegal under international law. The law will allow exceptions and will not apply to Israeli citizens or those with permanent residency.
“In recent years calls to boycott Israel have been growing,” a statement on the Israeli parliament website said after the bill’s approval. “It seems this is a new front in the war against Israel, which until now the country had not prepared for properly.”
It’s worth mentioning, Sen. Cardin is one of dozens of US lawmakers who hold dual Israeli-American citizenships. Perhaps since we’re all so concerned about foreign meddling into our affairs, we should shed a light on all foreign meddling, not just Russian.
Here are the Senators who support the bill.
Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]* 03/23/2017
Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] 03/27/2017
Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] 03/27/2017
Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] 03/27/2017
Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] 03/27/2017
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] 03/27/2017
Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] 03/28/2017
Sen. Young, Todd C. [R-IN] 03/28/2017
Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] 03/28/2017
Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] 03/28/2017
Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] 03/28/2017
Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] 03/30/2017
Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA] 03/30/2017
Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] 03/30/2017
Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] 03/30/2017
Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND] 04/04/2017
Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] 04/04/2017
Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE] 04/04/2017
Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] 04/24/2017
Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS] 04/24/2017
Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] 04/24/2017
Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] 04/24/2017
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] 04/25/2017
Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] 04/26/2017
Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] 05/01/2017
Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] 05/01/2017
Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] 05/08/2017
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] 05/09/2017
Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] 05/16/2017
Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] 05/17/2017
Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN] 05/23/2017
Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] 05/25/2017
Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] 06/05/2017
Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] 06/05/2017
Sen. Strange, Luther [R-AL] 06/05/2017
Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] 06/06/2017
Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] 06/12/2017
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] 06/12/2017
Sen. Sasse, Ben [R-NE] 06/15/2017
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] 06/26/2017
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] 07/12/2017
Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] 07/12/2017
Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] 07/18/2017
Sen. Tillis, Thom [R-NC] 07/19/2017
Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] 07/19/2017
Oh boy. You’re going to catch some shit from anti-free-thought propagandists. As slowmo has repeatedly explained through inference: anyone who questions our absolute support for everything that AIPAC/Netanyahu desire is an anti-Semite. Never mind that Jews in Israel have lively debates about their own policies …ball-less Americans dare not discuss these matters. Send 19-year-olds to war in the mid-east, no prob. Just don’t question the Israeli government.
The average American is an uninformed pussy who spits on the heroes that fought so that we could have free speech.
No wonder this ultra anti-american bill was supported by 45 Senators and 237 congressmen. The US congress was infiltrated by dual shittyzen traitorous Israeli filth that should be exterminated like cockroaches by true americans for reasons of treason. The entire congress bows down to this foreign satanic invader from the hellhole known as the State of Israel. Must see this video evidence which gives new meaning to Russian meddling:
https://tinyurl.com/ycz5z5t8
Whatta you know, Ferd and Sac posting back to back yet again? This should keep the two board nutjobs in a fine froth all weekend….. Judging by their unhinged comments, they are already at Defcon 5!
And who would have guessed, someone right behind them refuting nothing and adding nothing to the discussion. Break it down slowmo.
No doubt you are lost. But I feel for you because one day you will kneel down to your Maker.
Nothing against Israeli citizens, but how can a dual Israeli/American citizen work as a government official and hold to an oath of citizenship of both countries? It is an impossible task. One will certainly violate the other – they are fundamentally at odds.
And if one would be interested to find out, all one needs to do is examine the support/voting record of these traitors. If any of the US/Israeli dual-filth cockroaches supported/voted to send American goyim to die in dirty ME wars for the benefit of Luciferian pukes in Israhell, that would be good indication which oath was violated.
Where’s sarc?
Scaradouchie???
http://heavy.com/news/2017/07/anthony-scaramucci-obama-wall-street-pinata-video-cnbc/
Guys the s&p500 has been weaponized. (downazspy) With the medium-hot war for our government a lot of you believe is occurring: not a stretch
(lot of supporting points)
Honest question: do you really think since Nov 9 it’s not possible that the faction with less american centric interests, bleeding-high valuations being irrefutable, setup stocks for weaponization? indexes haven’t merely been foisted higher? (really?)
(obviously i sensed and said so, within days)
Shit homie, this is the equivalent of shooting a rubber band with your gun fingers compared to the weapon that will be by the end of year.
L’Chaim!
I’m conflicted. Although I hate seeing anything interrupt free commerce, I note an undercurrent of communists who support the movement to divest.
I wonder, if money was to be truly tracked, there wasn’t a common link to these folks and their incoming money flows
Don’t like the law to criminalize but would encourage the BDS tools not to be hypocrites and in fact clean house of their Israeli connections. When they get MS, certain cancers, etc. I’m sure they will turn down the treatments (unlike BDS fan Jimmah Carter who had brain cancer eradicated in part due to Israeli biotechs). Also, they should throw out most of their tech equipment and while at it hook up with what I think is a PLO,Hamas invention- the suicide belt.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jesus-love-is-so-great/so-you-want-to-boycott-israel-heres-a-list-of-products-and-services-you-need-to-/820698877940154/
http://www.madein-israel.com/Default.aspx
Carter was cured with Keytruda, a Merck drug that was originally created by Dutch scientist. No connection to Israel there.
Wow, that Facebook list is absurdly overstated and lol on Teva they only make generics, which means they invented nothing. Don’t get me wrong I’m not anti-Jew, but your chauvinism is so over the top it’s funny.
Check out that teva chart!
Chicken or the egg man. That is all.
This is a First Amendment issue.
Why do U.S. lawmakers continually attempt to undermine Free Speech and specifically, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, on behalf of Israel?
To ban the ability of people to boycott is a ban of expression of one’s opinion. It is anti-1st Amendment.
One foot in the door is one foot too much.
Werd
I find it shocking that anyone in Congress would even support such trash but it would never survive a Supreme Court challenge.
This shows just how broken Congress is – on all sides. They should not be wasting their time on such rubbish.
I wonder if Trump would sign such a law?
No, the bill will not become law under current circumstances. The important point of course is that a law, which would imprison Americans for 20 years if they peacefully protest the policies of a foreign government …a bill that was written by agents of that foreign government …gathered-up all that bipartisan support in our congress without our congresspeople having bothered to read the fucking thing!
The fear of the Israeli lobby in our congress is total. And as Fly noted, the hypocrisy of this never-discussed fact in light of the current Russian influence hysteria should make people stop and ask WTF?
This is what it is about. It is not about Jews, or anti-Semitism as slowmo would have you think, or about tradercaddy’s idiotic conflation with Jimmy Carter’s brain cancer, or Maven’s worry that BDS supporters are commies. For fuck’s sake people!
https://youtu.be/KOO5S4vxi0o
I really like living in Canada.
Home of Senator Ted Cruz… but don’t tell Fly.
I believe It’s unconstitutional. But there is no end of people in Washington who would prefer to overturn the will of the people, take away rights, give in to their political donors even to the detriment of the average American citizen.
“It’s worth mentioning, Sen. Cardin is one of dozens of US lawmakers who hold dual Israeli-American citizenships.”
TOTAL BULLSHIT…obviously you are hanging around SAC too much.. Name all members of Congress with dual US/Israeli citizenships and then I will prove you wrong… maybe you’re drinking too many Cosmos on your back porch in the hot Princeton sun. Get your shit together man and take off that brownshirt.
TC got turnt up. Its working. Get bent
I’m actually wearing a black shirt now. Put your weapon away TC, I swear that I’m not an anti Semite. Some of my best friends and Jewish.
It’s perfectly legal to have dual citizenship. Why get all defensive about it?
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/240572-when-dual-citizenship-becomes-conflict-of-interest
I meant to say, ‘some of my best friends are Jewish.’
Quit being a faggot. Oh, wait, I don’t think that’s an option for you, yes?
Sounds like something you were told in junior high and now are repeating. Let it go dude.
TraitorConfessions never mentioned or implied “anti semitism”. Was it guilt that made you “.. swear that I’m not an anti Semite” Perhaps than the propaganda is working as Harold Rosenthal shared with Walter Mondale: “We even place within you a ‘guilt complex’ making you afraid to criticize Jewry openly.”
https://tinyurl.com/2zqff
Rosenthal w/ Mondale:
https://tinyurl.com/ybvw5y5a
He called me a Brownshirt you fucking idiot
So? He called you a Brownshirt. What do you make of that? And where does antisemitism come into play you little over-sensitive snowflake?
https://tinyurl.com/ydygl3re
Where’s your list of dozens of Congress members who hold dual Israeli/US citizenships? You know there isn’t one so what’s your motivation to promote that falsehood with the accompanying innuendo?
A black shirt on a muggy 95 degree day? Now I know you’re crazy. Sure you weren’t wearing a brown undershirt?
Besides being misinformed, let me inform you that you have an unhealthy fixation on brown shirts. Let it go dude. There’s nothing of substance in brown shirts…you’re just stirring up some repressed guilt associations in good old Fly for nothing.
TC,
Bush’s cabinet is made up of dual citizens.
Not sure about he list, but let’s not pretend congress is bought and paid for. How do you explain this? Are we the Knesset? I believe the Knesset has more integrity then these jokers.
Chucky Schummer get the majority of his money from Israel. I remember, last year when he started on Trump. Trump publicly ask” hey chuck , who gives you all that money? Who are you working for anyway?”
Schummer shut his mouth for months.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
Chuckie… who are the dual citizens? Name them here or admit you are clueless. Schumer gets most of his money from Israel? Really? Where did you get this fake news? I recognize that little men with puny brains must take the words of others. But talk out of your shithole and you look like an ass.
Regards.
While Chuckie is compiling his long list for you, I’ll chip in with my names: Levin, Boxer, Lieberman, Schumer, Feinstein, Kohl, Waxman, Bawney Frank (homosexual) of course, Lehtinen, Berman, Filner, and shit load of others that have not come forward as there is no obligation for disclosure…and those are the worst, the ones that are hiding their alliance to foreign luciferian regime while pretending to represent interest of americans, ehm, goyim, of course.
Like always , Sac has busted TC again with truth and facts. Dam, you sure like to make him look good.
I never said I knew about a “list”
However I did look up a few things. We know Bush had scores of two faced citizens in his kitchen cabinet.
Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Chertoff , Doug Feith , I’m sure there are plenty more of these dirty warmongers I’ve missed.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
The move is very typical of one of the types of messaging from that way of thinking which decides which is “bad” by determining what is “good.” In this case ACLU is “bad” because the profit of Israel is “good”. The point is to decide what is bad in order to create a positive media cycle on something. It’s a little disingenuous but as political strategy it’s been working well for them especially from 2002 on. We have been programmed to have the response that will further the agenda of the message.
The ACLU and the Intercept are just crying like little bitches because this hurts their ability to push the BDS movement which they support. It’s really as simple as that. The bill is not designed to throw americans in jail for beliefs about Israel no matter how much they try to portray it that way to garner sympathy for their cause.
@Mad,
I hear you, however it’s a slippery slope.
If bunch of clowns wanted to make a law to lock up people who celebrated Christmas or Passover, and the same clowns told us not to worry we won’t lock you up.
Would you believe them?
It’s not a tax, wait, ok ok, you got me, ACA is a tax. Now enforce it.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
Hey they are just inalienable rights your ancestors fought and died for goy, what’s the big deal?
Nothing against Israel in principle, we have a lot to learn from right wing Israelis on nationalism, civic pride and how to deal with the Muzzies but this sort of Jewery is why people become anti-Semitic.