Tell your Senators to Oppose the Attack on the First Amendment

Tell your Senators to Oppose the Attack on the First Amendment

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With every new Congress, the House and the Senate set their biggest priorities for their terms in the very first bills they introduce. Typically, these priorities focus on fundamental American interests. But this year’s first Senate bill, S.1. the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019, takes aim at the First Amendment in an effort to shield Israel and its illegal settlements from American human rights activism that takes the form of boycotts.

Today the U.S. Senate will vote on S.1., a package that includes Senator Rubio’s Combating BDS Act, which ...

With every new Congress, the House and the Senate set their biggest priorities for their terms in the very first bills they introduce. Typically, these priorities focus on fundamental American interests. But this year’s first Senate bill, S.1. the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019, takes aim at the First Amendment in an effort to shield Israel and its illegal settlements from American human rights activism that takes the form of boycotts.

Today the U.S. Senate will vote on S.1., a package that includes Senator Rubio’s Combating BDS Act, which the ACLU says would “encourage states to adopt unconstitutional laws that would unjustly punish those doing business with the state based solely on their political beliefs.”

So far, two separate federal court decisions have ruled that anti-boycott state laws were unconstitutional as they violated the First Amendment-protected free speech of Americans. Beyond the legal technicality of the matter, an intuitive common sense question is also raised, which has been posed in a blog posted by the ACLU: “Since when do American citizens have to pledge to act in the interest of a foreign power in order to do business with their own government?”

Americans who engage in boycotts of Israel or its illegal settlements are engaged in First Amendment-protected activity, and Senator Rubio’s efforts to enact punitive measures for them is unconstitutional and unAmerican. Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose Senator Rubio’s effort.

 

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Tell your Senators to Oppose the Attack on the First Amendment

Americans who engage in boycotts of Israel or its illegal settlements are engaged in First Amendment-protected activity, and efforts by some Republican leadership in the Senate to enact punitive measures are unconstitutional and unAmerican. Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose S.1.

 

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