https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/To-protect-Israel-Texas-sacrifices-the-13483003.php

What do a speech pathologist, a freelance writer, a reporter and university students in Texas have in common with a weekly paper in Arkansas, a lawyer in Arizona, and a math teacher in Kansas? They have all had to choose between signing a loyalty oath to Israel and forgoing payment for their services from state agencies. And they have all fought back.

This month, two lawsuits have challenged the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires anyone doing business with a state entity — including cities, school districts and public universities — to affirm that they do not boycott Israel and will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract.

Rather than Texas fighting a losing battle in court, the Legislature should repeal the law in the upcoming session.

Too many Texans have already been subjected to this ill-considered mandate. Last year, this law prompted the city of Dickinson to require residents to pledge not to boycott Israel in order to receive aid in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. After public outcry, the city limited the requirement to businesses rather than individual homeowners.

Lawsuits have challenged similar contract requirements in Arizona, Kansas and Arkansas. Pledges not to boycott Israel are also required in state contracts in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, and Ohio. Twenty-six states have some form of law on the books aiming to discourage people from engaging in boycotts for Palestinian rights. These laws are brazen violations of the right to free speech.

Why would a Texas school district or public radio station need contractors to sign an oath of loyalty to Israel? Why are so many lawmakers adopting obviously unconstitutional laws?

As the global movement for Palestinian rights has grown, so too have efforts to shut it down. In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a global call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to support the movement for Palestinian equality and freedom. They modeled it after a similar call from South Africans to challenge the apartheid regime there.

The reality on the ground — and since last summer, enshrined in Israel’s fundamental Basic Law — is that Palestinians have fewer rights than Jewish Israelis — whether they are citizens of Israel or live in Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem or besieged in the Gaza Strip.

For those in the international community moved by the overwhelming injustices that have dispossessed Palestinians of their land, livelihood and dignity over the span of seven decades, boycotts are a way to demand freedom and equality for Palestinians through everyday consumer and investment choices at a time when our own government facilitates the oppression of Palestinians and shields Israel from accountability.

Boycotts have long been employed to leverage collective economic pressure to achieve freedom and equality — and supporters of the status quo have long attempted to use the law to stop them.

In 1973, 17 business owners in Mississippi sued the NAACP and local activists over a boycott of white businesses that had been adopted as part of a local campaign for racial equality and integration. The case made its way to the Supreme Court, which held in 1982 that boycotts to bring about political, social and economic change are protected under the First Amendment.

Seems like a very small list.

Those are the only reputable sources in the entire world?

So when are you going to provide the list?

Or is the list just the NYT?

Please leave me with your approved list of propaganda sources.

Are you saying something only happens when your approved propaganda source says it happens?

So if I see a cat, does that cat exist before it is reported by your approved propaganda source?

So it is a real article and you are to lazy to look at the other links that have been posted.

Do you still need your ass wiped too?

Are you saying the article isn't real?

Is it an essay masquerading as an article, or perhaps an under achieving poem?

So are you defending New Knowledge and Johnathan Morgan's actions?

Are you saying countries spy on each other?

Is that where the word spy comes from?

You guys are next level on this forum.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11693

1. Gonzaga cites Christian mission in rejecting Ben Shapiro event

In November, Gonzaga University, a Christian college, refused to allow conservative pundit Ben Shapiro from speaking at the college.

Shapiro had been invited by Gonzaga’s College Republicans chapter, but was ultimately rejected from being able to speak because of the perceived likelihood of protests. The college also argued that Shapiro’s speech would go against the university’s mission statement.

“Mr. Shapiro’s appearances routinely draw protests that include extremely divisive and hateful speech and behavior, which is offensive to many people, regardless of their age, politics or beliefs,” vice president of student development, Judi Biggs Garbuio told the College Republicans.

2. During a “Change My Mind” event in May, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University of Texas at San Antonio, liberal students protested and called campus security multiple times.

Leftists call cops to report conservative free speech event

Campus Reform correspondent Peyton Dillberg who attends the University of Texas at San Antonio wrote an op-ed on the campus culture and what took place at the “Change My Mind” table. Check out his op-ed here.

[RELATED: 5 most anti-conservative statements and actions on campus in 2018]

3. In January, a student group at Oklahoma State University, called “The Four Percent,” sent a list of demands to the college, which include mandatory diversity training and punishments for certain speech that may be viewed as “racially insensitive.” The group also specified that students who violate the proposed rules “would be subject to sanctions.”

Students ask Oklahoma State to punish 'insensitive' speech

OSU President Burns Hargis responded to the demands, stating “we will review the ideas presented by the students as we continue to look for ways to improve. We remain committed to working with all Oklahoma State students to create a culture and environment that are welcoming to all and a model for others."

4. Back in April, three University of Illinois students filed a lawsuit accusing the university of violating their First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of the press.

Lawsuit claims U of Illinois muzzled student journalists

The students, who were journalists reporting for Campus Reform on campus issues, claim to have been punished for reporting on an anti-Trump rally, where two of the journalists were allegedly assaulted by a university employee.

One student in the lawsuit claims that a university administrator directly told him to stop reporting for Campus Reform if he wanted the situation to improve.

The lawsuit is currently ongoing.

5. At Columbia University, a professor disciplined an entire class for using “racially microaggressive” language in a course-related online discussion board. Students were given extra reading assignments focused on “white identity” and “microaggressions” as a punishment.

Entire class punished for 'microaggressive' comments

The professor, who described the incident in an academic journal article, reported the microaggressions to Columbia administration and during the next class period, racially segregated the students into “affinity groups.” One group was comprised of white students and another group was comprised of “People of the Global Majority.”

Do you often brush off using questionable sources?

You also list whole agencies. I would find it hard to find any agency that agrees on everything. Surely you aren't suggesting that ever member or every one of those groups came to the same conclusion.