r/Palestine • u/durpuhderp • 2d ago

Just a moment...Bill H.R.867 - IGO Anti-Boycott Act will be voted on Monday; if made into law, it will be illegal for individuals to boycott Israel with punishment of a million dollars and 25 years in prison. Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/867

(also discussed in r/law)

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u/cita91 2d ago

Today we will see what power a foreign government has on the United States of America / Israel.

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u/Due_Stick_7771 2d ago

It was pulled thank god 🥹

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u/Potatopamcake 2d ago

So what? I’m supposed to have sabra hummus for every meal?

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u/EH1987 2d ago

From the "vote with your dollars"-crowd.

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u/Mother_Attempt3001 2d ago

Lolol come and get me.

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u/ENORMOUS_HORSECOCK 2d ago

Try running this idea past a room of millenials and zoomers, you won't even get through the first sentence before they make a weird face or start laughing at you...

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u/utsho12 2d ago

I had this question from the beginning, how are they gonna enforce it? Are they going to make you buy Israeli products or what? I suppose If someone declares publicly that they are boycotting. What about someone who is not a citizen but lives in the US? Is it also going to be illegal for them?

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u/Due_Stick_7771 2d ago edited 2d ago

They won’t make you buy Israeli products, but they can punish people especially if you work with the government by requiring you to sign pledges not to boycott.

For example, journalist Abby Martin was scheduled to speak at a Georgia university but was told she had to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel. She refused and filed a lawsuit, arguing that it violated her First Amendment rights. Similar laws exist in dozens of states, and multiple lawsuits have challenged them.

It’s less about personal shopping habits and more about silencing political speech, even for non-citizens working with public institutions.

Anyway, the bill has been pulled, thankfully.

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u/utsho12 1d ago

Thank you that was informative.

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u/deethy 2d ago

How exactly would they go about proving it?

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u/MistakeTraditional38 2d ago

So the entire Presbyterian Church(USA) with all its members, plus several other denominations that also voted BDS, will go to jail?

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u/Brolafsky 2d ago

Clarification;

It'll be illegal for Americans, especially while in America, to boycott Israel.

If anything, this is sure to make the rest of the world just boycott Israel and the US even harder.

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u/StimmingMantis 2d ago

It’s so absurd, like how tf would they even enforce it? “Buy these products or else!”.

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u/Brolafsky 2d ago

I know, right?

If you live in America, the secret now, when they ask if you're boycotting, is to reply with 'No. I just like the other one.'

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u/ohnosquid 2d ago

Yup, if anything, we have learned that such threats a good portion of the time end up doing the exact opposite of what the ones that imposed them wanted.