Tubgoat posted:

Was that a typo?

quote:

AUSTIN – The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas today filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that requires government contractors to certify that they are not engaged in boycotts of Israel or territories controlled by Israel. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of four Texans, argues that the law, HB 89, which went into effect last year, violates the First Amendment’s protection against government intrusion into political speech.

“This lawsuit is about fundamental First Amendment rights, which protect us all from having the government use its power to force us to choose one side or another in a public debate,”said Edgar Saldivar, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas. “Whatever you may think about boycotts of Israel, the bottom line is that political boycotts are a legitimate form of nonviolent protest. The state cannot use the contracting process as an ideological litmus test or to tell people what kind of causes they may or may not support.”

The lawsuit is brought on behalf of four people who were forced under the law to choose between signing the certification or forgoing professional opportunities and losing income: John Pluecker, a freelance writer who lost two service contracts from the University of Houston; George Hale, a reporter for KETR who was forced to sign the certification against his conscience in order to keep his job; Obinna Dennar, a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University, who was forced to forfeit payment for judging at a debate tournament; and Zachary Abdelhadi, a student at Texas State University, who has had to forego opportunities to judge high school debate tournaments.

“The constitution clearly prohibits the government from suppressing participation in political boycotts,” said Brian Hauss, staff attorney for the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology project. “This misguided law seeks to undermine a form of protected expression that has been a part of our nation’s constitutional tradition since the founding.”

Since 2017, the ACLU has successfully blocked anti-boycott state laws in Kansas and Arizona. In January 2018, a federal district court preliminarily enjoined an anti-boycott state law in Kansas, holding that the First Amendment protects citizens’ right to “band together” and “express collectively their dissatisfaction with the injustice and violence they perceive, as experienced both by Palestinians and Israeli citizens.” In September, a district court joined a similar anti-boycott law in Arizona.

The ACLU takes no position on campaigns to boycott Israel or any other foreign country, but it has long defended the First Amendment right to participate in political boycotts.

The lawsuit filed today seeks an order from the court declaring the law unconstitutional and enjoining the enforcement of the law’s certification requirement. Plaintiffs are represented by attorneys from the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU Speech Privacy & Technology Project, and Kevin Dubose of Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend LLP in Houston.

Tubgoat posted:

ACLU takes a stand against Nazi speech? Wowzers!

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Tastykake posted:

memri tv is an absurdist comedy show tricking the israeli govt into funding it

Kurnugia posted:

Isn't memri tv supposed to be pro israeli propaganda. this guy is badass

Kurnugia posted:

Isn't memri tv supposed to be pro israeli propaganda. this guy is badass

quote:

Several commentators, such as CNN's Arabic department, have claimed that the transcript of the April 13 show (2007) provided by MEMRI contains numerous translation errors and undue emphases.[90] Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for the Guardian newspaper (UK), wrote in a blog for the newspaper that in the translation of the video, showing Farfour eliciting political comments from a young girl named Sanabel, the MEMRI transcript misrepresents the segment where he asks what she will do, by attributing a sentence said by Farfour, ("I'll shoot"), to the child while ignoring the child's actual reply ("I'm going to draw a picture").[90]

Whitaker further criticized MEMRI's translation. He and others commented that a statement uttered by the same child, ("We're going to [or want to] resist"), had been given an unduly aggressive interpretation by MEMRI as ("We want to fight"). Also, where MEMRI translated the girl as saying the highly controversial remark ("We will annihilate the Jews"), Whitaker and others, including Arabic speakers used by CNN, insist that based on careful listening to the low quality video clip, the girl is variously interpreted as saying, "The Jews [will] shoot[] us"[90] or "The Jews are killing us."[91] Other sources have also pointed out that MEMRI's translation "I will commit martyrdom" should more accurately have been "I'll become a martyr" – a passive statement rather than an active/aggressive threat.[92]

CNN's Glenn Beck had planned to run MEMRI's translation on his radio programme but was stopped by his producer. Beck then invited Yigal Carmon, a former Colonel of IDF Intelligence and founder and President of MEMRI, on to the programme where Carmon denounced CNN's Arabic translation.[90]

MEMRI defends their translation of the show, Yigal Carmon declared, "Yes, we stand by the translation by the very words, by the context, by the syntax, and every measure of the translation."[91]

Kurnugia posted:

Isn't memri tv supposed to be pro israeli propaganda. this guy is badass

Rigged Death Trap posted:

MENA TV can get just as weird as any other regions.
Most of the Memri images that memes are made of are for some obscure rear end networks that play only on a national level.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Memri tries to showcase how backwards and threatening the Arab world is to Israel, only to end up making their enemies relatable.

the bitcoin of weed posted:

much of it is badly translated on purpose to portray arabs as bloodthirsty maniacs and their programming as deranged propaganda, so yes. this is from a kid's show with a Mickey Mouse named Farfour broadcast on palestinian TV

Main Paineframe posted:

they're trying to present him as a crazed, uncivilized bomber who'd gladly die for the opportunity to kill Jews

Kurnugia posted:

well he talks like a hero preparing himself for martyrdom

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Memri tries to showcase how backwards and threatening the Arab world is to Israel, only to end up making their enemies relatable.

Main Paineframe posted:

suicide bombers have been thoroughly demonized by the West as a way of delegitimizing decades of terrorism

the average American isn't going to see a clip of a brown-skinned guy talking about tying himself to a missile as it's fired at a major Western city and think "what a hero"

Moridin920 posted:

Yeah like idk you gotta be kinda dim in the first place to think Memri TV is an accurate portrayal of Arabs

Moridin920 posted:

Real hurthling! posted:

why cant american fascists make anything as fun as this

Main Paineframe posted:

the average American isn't going to see a clip of a brown-skinned guy talking about tying himself to a missile as it's fired at a major Western city and think "what a hero"

steinrokkan posted:

American televangelists are thousand times scarier than the most belligerent crap they choose to mistranslate on Memri TV.

Moridin920 posted:

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1081969706578395136

alsothere posted:

https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1082484248026800131?s=19

Autism Sneaks posted:

flossing every time an Israeli snipes a Palestinian child in Fortnite

Real hurthling! posted:

i have never in 30 years seen a pretty picture of isreal

Main Paineframe posted:

totally normal country

https://mobile.twitter.com/AsafRonel/status/1083258298168733696

Real hurthling! posted:

i have never in 30 years seen a pretty picture of isreal

Tubgoat posted:

They'll sometimes run commercials locally (Twin Cities, MN) about how Tel Aviv is a party spot full of fun young broads and bright lights and loud music. It's upsetting.