Democrats are doing whatever they can to provide a safe space for Israel.
On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a measure targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that would make it illegal for companies to boycott and discriminate against any sovereign country, including Israel, and would prevent them from doing business in the state.
According to the Jewish Journal, the original bill, known as “the anti-BDS bill”, mandated that companies conducting business with California for more than $100,000 would not be allowed to boycott Israel. A split came within the Democratic-controlled state legislature when the Appropriations Committee scrubbed all mentions of the Jewish state in the bill. Instead, the committee expanded the language of the bill to all “sovereign nations or peoples”, replacing “Israel”.
Governor Brown, a longtime ally of the Clinton family, signed the bill after it passed the State Senate 34 to 1 and the State Assembly 69 to 1 in August.
The Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, even spoke to AIPAC in March addressing the BDS movement:
Despite the Democrats wanting to stop a boycott of Israel, a foreign nation and ally, they have absolutely no problem boycotting North Carolina, an American state, due to its transgender bathroom bill.
After the NCAA pulled all tournament basketball games out of North Carolina over its bathroom laws, Clinton wasted no time supporting the decision:
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In addition to a number of businesses boycotting North Carolina, the states of Connecticut and New York have conducted their own boycott of the state. It’s decisions like these that cause The Intercept founder Glenn Greenwald to have an aneurysm:
California now becomes the 12th state to enact an anti-BDS measure into law.
