S. 720 is a bill which is getting increasing bipartisan support in the US Senate. Also known as the “Israel Anti-Boycott Act,” the bill now has the support of 45 Senators, a number which is continuing to grow despite its overt hostility to freedom of speech.
The bill starts as a condemnation of the United Nations for criticisms of Israeli policy, but quickly veers into matters of domestic US policy, criminalizing any US citizen “engaged in interstate or foreign commerce” holding any beliefs in support of a boycott of Israel.
The ACLU was quick to point out that the bill, threatening huge fines and decades of prison time for ideological support of the boycott, is overtly criminalizing political thought, and is a huge infringement on freedom of speech. Sen. Ben Cardin (D – MD), the main sponsor, said he “doesn’t think” the bill actually criminalizes such views.
The House version of the bill, which isn’t so far along, also has some 234 co-sponsors, again across both parties. So far not a single US lawmakers has publicly gone on record as opposing the bill, which is being loudly endorsed by AIPAC.
There is no timetable for a vote on the Israel Anti-Boycott Act. Those wishing to contact their Senators to express opposition to S.720 can find the contact information here.
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We should charge every one of these 45 senators with being an agent for a foreign government. They want to abridge Americans rights to satisfy a racist warmongering foreign country. Shame on them.
check in their home FREEZERS for scheckels!
The senate and congress in the United States are loyal to bribes, lobbies..especially the sickening terrorist organization called AIPAC and Israel itself. Israel has done nothing to make America a better place, nor have they stopped with their unbridled greed regarding robbing American taxpayers. Israel is a wealthy state and “could” be self reliant. These 45 traitors need to be forcefully deported to their sociopathic homeland. Americans must rise, and stop the Zionist menace in its tracks.
just pointing out that the Senate is part of Congress. Congress is both the Senate and the House of Reps but really it should be changed to one corrupt dictatorship.
Meet the New World Order .. Once it is understood Communism and Zionism are both trees split from the same trunk and the same root system, the picture becomes clearer. Both had the same goal: World Domination. Which one won? Putin, a Christian, stopped the ZioCON/Communists (dual citizens) looting of Russia and, when he started to prosecute them, they fled to Israel. Today they’ve shifted their focus to the USA and, and in addition to looting the USA, they’re bringing their Iron Curtain police state down on us. Until Trump, at the risk of being called an anti-Semite, gets the courage to do what Putin did and toss the ZioCON/Communists (dual citizens) out of the US Government, the USA will continue its’ downhill slide and, if they ever get the guns, millions of Christians will die, just like they did to the Christians in Russia.
Legalized bribery is a standard these days. People worry about Russian meddling when Israel has it down to a science.
“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”
―George Orwell
With over 40 Senators and over 100 Representatives who are lawyers of one legal category or another, we should be concerned that this kind of proscription of our rights as citizens can happen today. What’s even more concerning is that given the track record of our Supreme Court, striking down this bill, if it should pass, is not a guaranteed outcome.
And we’re concerned about Russian influence?
Exactly. Talk about collusion and manipulating elections.
I would think that companies can do business with whomever they wish to. Don’t even have to mention the word ‘boycott.’ If I have a product to sell and sell it to Argentina instead of Israel, it’s none of the govt’s business. Same thing, if I choose to not buy an Israeli-made product, so be it. I wouldn’t think a company has to explain its free choice to anyone.
I am waiting for a decision on labeling goods as ‘made in Palestine’ instead of the catch-all phrase of ‘made in Israel.
Imagine that – 45 Senators behind that Israel bill but only 15 of them behind the – Stop funding Terrorism bill !
That’s ’cause Israel is an ISIS ally… and in the Senate, AIPAC calls the shots
Today we are all Palestinians…
Who is the real enemy of America? Who are the real terrorists?
Maybe its those men and women we elect every 2 or 4 years and do exactly
the opposite of what we elected them to do. They have failed us for their own personal enrichment. Will they ever be held to account?
I’m sure you meant to say every 2 or 6 years…the senate term is 6 years.
What a NO -BRAINER…. They OW
WTF!!!!! THEY OWN OUR CONGRESS…..!!!!!!!!!!!!…….?????????……..!!!!!!!!!!
Good time to contact OUR (or is it THEIR) Senators & Congressmen
Why? They’re not going to listen to you…or me…we’re only voters and taxpayers and give them…nothing.
We should storm the senate, the house of representatives when they are in session, drag these traitors of not only the constitution, but to the oath they took to God almighty and to the people out to the lawn give them a speedy trial find them guilty and shoot them on the spot. I will furnish the ammo I cannot be on the jury as I have no respect for any of them. In addition to being traitors they prove they are whores for a foreign Illegal nation, and the children of Satan,
The USA pretends to be free and the “Reps and Senators pretend to represent the US population and not Israel, then blame Iran for inciting terror!
I would like to see a study about how fast can ‘We the People’ sever the heads of traitors (and enemy alien fifth columnists) and then dump the refuse into giant woodchippers/meat grinders.
Marbury v Madison, US Supreme court; anything repugnant to the constitution is null and void from it’s inception.. Which means those voting for this law, are in violation of their oaths of office and in violation of 18 USC 1001 WHICH IS A FELONY… I would postulate that it’s also TREASON against the Constitution and one of the penalties for treason is STILL HANGING! BUILD THE GALLOWS!
Good luck finding a prosecutor in this country who will prosecute them or a court that will try them much less sentence them. The Congresscritters have pretty much proven that they are above the law and cannot be intimidated nor shamed. The only viable options are to attempt to vote them out or failing that, wait until they die from brain failure and try to replace them with someone more aligned with the American citizens needs.
yeah there have been oppressive governments throughout history that just wouldn’t stop abusing the people.. they hung them and occasionally beheaded them.
I would prefer a legal method of ridding ourselves of these criminal parasites,. but the people always had the option of storming the castle “so to speak”
voting is a scam, hey here are your options, we chose them for you to pick between. now choose!
This is freakin insane. Could you imagine if one came up with a law called Russia anti-boycott act? They would be laughed out of the country. But now this? and 45 Senators have signed onto this? Total violation of our 1st amendment and really demonstrates how corrupt our members in DC are. A toxic mix of a rotten corrupt deep state and a rotten corrupt elected Senate and house of reps. Just wow.
Bunch of fukn traitors. Few people remember the USS Liberty. http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.ca/2017/07/the-israeli-assault-on-uss-liberty.html
What are the names of these of these so called air head senators, someone please post. So we can all see who’s selling America out.
So it was Russia who hacked our political system?
Israel, crypto-Israelis and Billionaire Zionists are waging war on America. Their totalitarian, anti-BDS legislation criminalizes Free Speech. Yet this invasive, anti-democratic clampdown is being totally ignored by our ‘mainstream’ media. Our news and entertainment media is siding with Israel.
America’s dominant news organizations are obsessed with ‘Russian interference’ in US elections while the elephant in the room goes unobserved.
Israel’s footprint in American life however dwarfs anything ever even imagined by Putin.
The threat to US sovereignty comes not from Russia, but from Israel.
Traitors to the USA … President Trump needs to have the same courage President Putin when he BANNED dual citizens from the Russian government.
Have these Senators been purchased, or are they being blackmailed?
I’m sure there is dirt available on every one of these Rothschild Israel toadies.
Holding a belief is a crime? That is a dangerous precedent for religions.
On principle I would never buy an Israeli product. It is wrong to support murder.
Only the sickest of the sick would even try to remove my principles.
Of course no one is speaking out against this monstrosity- they don’t want to lose their jobs or have an ‘accident’ or commit suicide under mysterious circumstances. It’s clear from this alone that Congress is an Israeli-occupied territory and any one who supports this move is a traitor and a collaborator. Hey Congress- might want to read a book or two on what the French did to Nazi collaborators after WW2. Hint: it doesn’t have a happy ending.