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To get Harvey relief funds, residents of Dickinson must vow not to boycott Israel
Dallas News ^ | 10/19/17 | claire z cardona

Posted on 10/20/2017 6:56:07 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd

Applicants for Hurricane Harvey relief grants for the storm-battered city of Dickinson are asked as part of the terms of the agreement to not boycott Israel, a move the ACLU has called unconstitutional.

The city began accepting applications Oct. 11 for grants to rebuild homes or businesses damaged in the storm that made landfall Aug. 25. The grant money was donated to the Dickinson Harvey Relief Fund.

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In January 2016, Gov. Greg Abbott met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and said that he wanted legislators to work to approve such a ban. When he signed the bill into law in May he said that "any anti-Israel policy is an anti-Texas policy."

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: cantdothat; harvey; israel; texas; unconstitutional

1 posted on 10/20/2017 6:56:07 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

So people recovering from a flood/hurricane are fighting for their right to be a Jew hater as they rebuild?


2 posted on 10/20/2017 6:58:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Title should be: To obtain Private Harvey relief funds, Applicant has to agree not to boycott Israel.

Private Contract, but in fact almost unenforceable.


3 posted on 10/20/2017 6:59:42 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

It does not seem inappropriate to me to have a clause from a private donation, to the effect, that you will not use these funds against me.


4 posted on 10/20/2017 7:00:58 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain
Dickinson Harvey Relief Fund is, I believe, a private organization, but the Israel non-boycott clause kicks in because the money being distributed through the state, and in accordance with state law those contracting with the state of Texas can't boycott Israel, not by condition set by the charity itself. So far as I know, anyway.

Can you theoretically be denied a building permit, an LTC, a license plate, under the same statute? It seems to me that this particular case illustrates that the law meant to prevent agencies from doing business with entities that boycott Israel is being applied in such a way that wasn't necessarily intended.

5 posted on 10/20/2017 7:12:36 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Interesting if the State put that in.

Seems kinda bizarre, and quite difficult to enforce.

Only seems enforceable against organizations that take a direct anti-Israeli stand.


6 posted on 10/20/2017 7:17:20 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Authored by State Rep. Phil King, a Republican from Weatherford, the bill prohibits the state of Texas from conducting business with companies involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, the governor’s office said.

https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/texas-governor-signs-law-banning-state-business-companies-boycotting-israel


OK. This is a clause inserted into contracts with the state. If you enter into a contract with the state, you agree not to boycott Israel.


7 posted on 10/20/2017 7:21:41 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Related thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3596999/posts


8 posted on 10/20/2017 8:33:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: marktwain

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If there is no stated remedy, what would be the enforcement?
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9 posted on 10/20/2017 8:43:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Good, let them see what it is like to be forced to approve of something they personally may not support, just like Christians offering services are forced to do with the LBGT mafia & their supporters. Fight fire with fire I say. No difference here.


10 posted on 10/20/2017 9:04:15 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

True. The only difference is that amongst the SJWs and other progressives at the moment, Jews are ten times the boogeyman that Christians are.


11 posted on 10/20/2017 9:26:08 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Anti-semites need your money.


12 posted on 10/20/2017 9:41:29 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kriggerel

no progressives are just less scared of the Jewish population because it is smaller. the only reason they don’t go after Christians as hard is that those identifying as Christians are a lot larger and more dangerous if mobilized.


13 posted on 10/20/2017 10:20:05 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Kriggerel
Jews are ten times the boogeyman that Christians are.

Not sure I can agree with you, as I think they see them as equal & united. Both the Jews & the Christians have been subjected to this hatred in the past. However, the Jews have experienced it in recent history, so perhaps it hits a much more sensitive nerve. I have seen this slow march to reject & condemn Christianity rearing its ugly head for decades now. At least since the late 80's early 90's. Sometime around the first intifada that started in 1987 thru 1993. Because they mistakenly believed it was just rock throwing children against a brutal Israeli military, because they were not being told the entire truth. This is one of the reasons we also see so much support for Islam, even as they threaten us with our very lives. Systematic brainwashing propagated by the press from around the globe, who did what their employers demanded or found their career ruined.

14 posted on 10/21/2017 4:55:36 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Thanks W.

15 posted on 10/21/2017 10:19:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Leftists have what a coworker of mine calls “Star Wars Syndrome.” They invariably think of themselves as the nervy rebels going up against “the man.” As such, they see Israeli soldiers getting rocks and firebombs chucked at them by ragged Palis and instantly empathize with the side they view as being, as they view themselves, the scrappy underdogs. The edge-dwellers rising up against the military establishment and its tin-soldier stormtroopers. "Star Wars Syndrome" doesn't explain the entirety of leftwing thinking, but it's definitely a real portion of it.

Ironically enough the alt-right, as unsavory and antithetical to traditional conservatism as aspects of it frequently are, is a direct result of the left being “the man” for most or all of the conscience memory of Generation Zers, who are rebelling in their turn by swinging right in their own way.

16 posted on 10/21/2017 11:01:24 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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I do think this is a federal issue. Presuming the relief funds are local, it's questionable whether foreign affairs fall under their prevue. I suppose the courts will have to decide.

Alternately, since BDS is clearly a foreign boycott, like the Arab states boycott of Israel, the federal government clearly can ban citizens from participating. Should the federal government wish to do so. Then cities, and many states wouldn't have to attempt to usurp their power.

Then again, maybe it's not usurping. I remember when margarine was illegal in Wisconsin

17 posted on 10/22/2017 3:37:56 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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Give people relief. It’s not the time to tie strings to basic human kindness.

Two Hitler youths took refuge in a bank during the Beer Hall Putsch, as it was falling apart. The Jewish banker sheltered them, because they reminded him of his dead son. After the Putsch failed and they went their way, they left the Nazi Party and never had anything more to do with it (Konrad Heiden, Der Fuhrer, published 1948 in English, don’t remember which chapter and page).


18 posted on 10/22/2017 4:42:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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