A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory.....

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.....in Many States — so She Lost Her Job

On August 13, the school district once again offered to extend her contract for another year by sending her essentially the same contract and set of certifications she has received and signed at the end of each year since 2009.

She was prepared to sign her contract renewal until she noticed one new, and extremely significant, addition: a certification she was required to sign pledging that she “does not currently boycott Israel,” that she “will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract,” and that she shall refrain from any action “that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israeli or in an Israel-controlled territory.”

The language of the affirmation Amawi was told she must sign reads like Orwellian — or McCarthyite — self-parody, the classic political loyalty oath that every American should instinctively shudder upon reading

[link:https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/|

Land of the free?!?!

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1. That's interesting. Weren't the anti-communist pledges that teachers were forced to sign, declared

onconstitutional?