Freedom of speech to be made illegal in US? Surely shome mistake

I’m afraid not. Just as the UN is about to publish a list of companies operating out of Israel’s illegal settlements on the West Bank, 23 American states have already passed legislation outlawing any attempt to enact “BDS” (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) and call to account companies, such as Coca Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Ben and Jerries and many, many more. And now national legislation is being planned.

Whatever happened to freedom of expression in the Land of the Free? It doesn’t exist, apparently, when it comes to criticizing Israel.
“Companies working where they find it economically advantageous isn’t politics, it’s economics.”
That’s the argument deployed. But it’s naive. Deciding where you place your factories is intensely political, nowhere more so than this embattled land. Indeed, it’s impossible to separate politics from any act. In Friends of the Earth, we used to say: “Existence on planet Earth is a political act”.

Israel does whatever it can to peddle the lie that it gives the Palestinian people a fair deal, while behind the scenes it is doing whatever it can to intimidate, contain and basically crush them into cowed acceptance of their fate. I know. I’ve seen it work on the ground in the occupied territories. The zionists want the world to believe they are a band of terrorists, intent on murdering all the Jews the moment they get the opportunity. They punish an entire nation for the actions of a tiny minority. Yet when they turn away from violence and towards political action, as with the BDS campaign, that’s beyond the pale too.

Right now there’s a lot on the news agenda to keep us copied; Brexit, Trump’s latest antics, the fate of the Rohinja Muslims in Myanmar, and now the confusion in Zimbabwe. But’s let’s not forget the plight of the Palestinians. That’s what the Israelis want you to do.