How Ron DeSantis puts Israel first and assaults the speech rights of American citizens
Florida’s Ron DeSantis has played point man on the Israel lobby’s crusade to criminalize American citizens for their exercising their constitutionally-protected right to boycott to boycott Israel.
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Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has spent his career as an elected official pushing an array of laws attacking the free speech of American citizens who exercise their constitutionally-protected right to boycott Israel. One anti-boycott bill DeSantis championed sought to send violators to prison for 10 years.
At the same time, the governor has sought to position himself as a champion of the First Amendment. During a 2022 press conference, he stood behind a podium emblazoned with the phrase, “Gov. DeSantis Defends Free Speech.” Flanked by medical professionals bearing signs that read “free speech, free state,” and “science not censorship,” DeSantis slammed the censorship regime erected to enforce public compliance to Covid-19 restrictions.
Yet, when it comes to silencing critics of his major financial benefactors, and limiting the First Amendment rights of American citizens to choose where and where not to spend their hard-earned dollars, DeSantis is more pro-mandate than pro-Madison.
The most recent of DeSantis’ many assaults on the right to boycott came this July 17, as he stood before a Christian Zionist group which supports Israel on the basis that it is the future landing pad for the Messiah.
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BDS is a pro-lie and anti-truth organisation/movement which, like this journalist Rubenstein, bases its entire perception of reality on the world, Israel and the middle east, on the lie that the jews have occupied the land of a palestinian people. There is no historical palestinian people, and therefore no palestinian land to occupy. What are today called palestinians are essentially first and second generation descendants of arab legal and illegal labor immigrants to Israel, from the end of the 1800s to the beginning of the 1900s. These left Israel at the request of the arab aggressor when they came to exterminate the Jews in 1948, and remained in the areas they are today, the west bank and Gaza. Judea and Samaria is the name of the Jewish land area over 3,500 years back, and has never belonged to the arabs.
"Christian" Zionism unmasked: https://donhank.substack.com/p/christian-zioinism