School Contractor in Texas Denied Work Over Pro|Israel Loyalty Oath

Everything You Wanted to Know about Anti-BDS Laws, Part I

Anti-BDS laws do not require anyone to "pledge loyalty to the state of Israel. ... contractor to sign a "pro-Israel oath." Contractors must simply ...

Anti-BDS laws - Wikipedia

... contracting with businesses unwilling to pledge that they will not boycott Israel. It also requires Texas to develop a blacklist of for-profit entities that ...

To do business with Texas, you can't boycott Israel - Axios Austin

You first have to formally pledge that you won't boycott Israel and that you won't "discriminate against" firearm companies.

US: States Use Anti-Boycott Laws to Punish Responsible Businesses

... with Israel, but also those that refuse to do business in Israeli settlements. ... A group of high school students hold signs in front of a school ...

McCarthyite Censorship Is Seeping Into Our Schools - Truthdig

This fall, for the first time, Amawi was required to sign an oath that she would not boycott Israel. When she refused to sign it, she was fired.

Paxton Wins Major Case Defending Texas's Anti-Boycott-of-Israel Law

Attorney General Paxton has secured a victory in the New Orleans-based US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit while defending a Texas law that prohibits ...

Fifth Circuit parses Texas ban on boycotting Israel

... contract the city presented in October 2021 and refused to sign. It contained what Hassouna calls a “loyalty oath” to Israel, a clause ...

Campaign to criminalise criticism of Israel: A challenge to free ...

The anti-BDS oath is the result of an Israel-specific state law enacted on May 2, 2017 by the Texas State Legislature ... when Governor Greg Abbott signed the ...

Why do certain states in America have to pledge allegiance to Israel ...

Why does Texas make Americans sign pro-Israel oaths of loyalty? Why ... refuse to pledge support to Israel or who show sympathy for Palestine.

After getting fired for boycotting Israel, one US citizen is fighting back

UPDATE: We're suing Texas for requiring government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel as a condition of doing business with the state.

US supreme court lets Arkansas law penalising Israel boycotts stand

... pledge not to boycott Israel in order to keep her job. Texas ... contract for refusing to sign a similar commitment. The ACLU and other ...

Appellant, v. LAWRENCE JOSE - Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

... of Texas prohibited boycotts of Israel as a condition of public employment. ... 7 Although the district court did not pass on Ali's loyalty oath ...

State Regulation of Private Schools - Department of Education

to regularly or continuously work under contract until the results of the criminal ... oath prior to discharging their duties. The oath affirms their support for ...

Loyalty Oath You Never Heard Of - Herald Goa

Bahia Amawi works as children's speech pathologist for the Pflugerville Independent School District in Texas. · Not a loyalty oath to the United ...

CAIR to Announce Suit Against Houston, Texas AG Over Contract ...

WHAT: CAIR News Conference Announcing Lawsuit Against City of Houston, Texas AG Over Pro-Israel Pledge in Contract ... “Loyalty oaths to ...

To protect Israel, Texas sacrifices the Constitution [Opinion]

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 ...

Wielding Antidiscrimination Law to Suppress the Movement for ...

Today, all but nine states have introduced or instituted anti-BDS measures that either require state contractors to pledge that they will not ...

Map Shows States Where Boycotting Israel is Illegal - Newsweek

Amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests at different college campuses in the U.S. a number of states have previously passed legislation, ...

Loyalty Oaths | U.S. Constitution Annotated | US Law | LII / Legal ...

Accepting the state court construction that the law required each candidate to “make oath ... The Court relied on vagueness when loyalty oaths aimed at “ ...

We're a Small Arkansas Newspaper. Why Is the State Making Us ...

Why Is the State Making Us Sign a Pledge About Israel? Nov. 22, 2021 ... with contractors unless those contractors affirm that they do not boycott ...