Discussion: TX Teacher Sues After Losing Job For Rejecting Pledge Not To Boycott Israel

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Just wondering, how does one enforce a law against boycotts, exactly? Do police agents go from door to door demanding that every citizen display at least one recently-purchased product made in Israel, complete with receipts? Does a family of four have to have four or more Israeli products?

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It’s outrageous the way that campus lefties are attacking free speech with their knee-jerk support for Palestine.

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And its a mandatory loyalty pledge to a foreign country to boot.

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What makes you think that this loyalty pledge is a product of “lefties?”

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I had no fucking idea this law was on the books in Texas. This is so insane. I don’t see how this isn’t a violation of the First Amendment in at least 2 ways.

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Get yer snark-o-meter checked, it’s off calibration.

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Just wait, pretty soon there will be a Federal law, or maybe just an Executice Order – yeah, that’s easier – prohibiting boycotts of Trump Hotels.

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Amendment I:
“Congress [and States, after the 14th A.] shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…except if you want a job under a reactionary majority. They’re free to make you say or not say anything they want.”

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Not even loyalty to Texas or the US, but to a foreign country.

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The Fundiescum need Israel so that when Robot Jeebus returns, there will be 144,000 Jews who will convert and proclaim him the messiah, while all the other Jews are thrown in the fiery pit. Some “allies”! But then Nitwityahoo wouldn’t be Nitwityahoo if he wasn’t working 24/7 to disprove the ancient anti-Semitic slur that all Jews are really smart.

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Yeah, not to mention the other 25 states that have similar laws.

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So… Citizen’s United said that corporations are people and have free speech rights… Hobby Lobby reinforced the idea that a corporation can choose to follow its religious beliefs and impose them on employees…

In light of those rulings, one unintended consequence could well be that laws like this are explicitly unconstitutional.

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Modest proposal: add Texas to the boycott list.

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WTF has not boycotting Israel got to do with teaching speech or anything else in school as long as it isn’t political or religious. Of course that religious thing gets trampled daily in "Trump " states and it is defended and OK. Are they f’n nuts? Or they afraid she will show up with an AR-15? Only white guys can have AR-15s.

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Surely, even tools like Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito, and Gorsuch can see that this violates the First Amendment. Hell, it even involves money, those guys’ favorite form of speech.

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The fact that Israel was able to get so many of these anti-free speech laws on the books here in the US is reason alone to boycott them.

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I am sure glad to see the sterling defense of academic freedom. What about the defense of the teacher fired for using the biological pronoun for the transgendered student?

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Inverse Sharia Law.

Absurd to apply a foreign policy matter to an individual citizen via a behavior pledge … yes it is tantamount to some sort of loyalty oath … and one that should be unconstitutional

How about we start looking into the investments of every public employee in the state of Texas - see if they own any stock in companies that are in any way boycotting Israel - or if the have shares of any mutual funds that hold shares of such companies …

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Shorter TX: Israel comes before citizens of TX. White Jesus.