YSK that in the State of Arkansas , it's illegal to boycott Israel - eviltoast
  • Strider@lemmy.world
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    20 天前

    I’m not even American but how would you even prove that? (eg. Not buying certain products…?)

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 天前

      The title is misleading. It bans state contractors from boycotting Israel, so there can be a certain amount of checking up.

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        19 天前

        Ah, I see.

        US headlines are often misleading internationally so that helps!

        (of course one could read each article but thats hardly possible in total)

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      19 天前

      Don’t put words in the mouth of the law. We have something similar in TX. If you are a government employee you have to agree not to “boycott Israel”. It doesn’t say boycott Israeli products or companies. It says “boycott Israel” itself, so you just can’t say that you’ll never travel there.

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        19 天前

        Why me? I reached to the (it seems wrongly worded) news.

        Try to be a bit more open minded to foreigners’ questions please.

        • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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          19 天前

          It wasn’t meant as a slight to you. It was more a comment on how they worded the law.

          Kind of like how the news will turn trumps ramblings into coherent thoughts. We shouldn’t modify the language of poorly written laws to make sense of them. That hurts the people governed by them.