Speech Pathologist Refused to sign Pro-Israel Oath- Loses Job

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- December 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM - Views: 62 #1794
  A bit more explanation…
  NV Wino
  Loyalty Oaths are soooo 1950s.
  bazukhov
  Back in 1969 I swore...
  Hobbit709
  I'm normally on the side...
  snot
  A boycott by me
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  Speech Pathologist Refused to sign Pro-Israel Oath- Loses Job
  
  https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/
  
  A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told that she can no longer work with the public school district, after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. A lawsuit on her behalf was filed early Monday morning in a federal court in the Western District of Texas, alleging a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.
- December 18, 2018 at 9:30 AM #1808
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  A bit more explanation…
  
  THE ANTI-BDS ISRAEL OATH was included in Amawi’s contract papers due to an Israel-specific state law enacted on May 2, 2017, by the Texas State Legislature and signed into law two days later by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. The bill unanimously passed the lower House by a vote of 131-0, and then the Senate by a vote of 25-4.
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  - December 18, 2018 at 11:13 AM #1873
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    Loyalty Oaths are soooo 1950s.
    
    You know. When America was “GREAT”.
    
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- December 18, 2018 at 11:46 AM #1893
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  Back in 1969 I swore an oath to protect and defend the the United States and the Constitution.
  
  Israel or any other country was not included.
  I don't waste my time teaching pigs to sing.
- December 18, 2018 at 9:57 PM #2235
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  I'm normally on the side of teachers; but I'm horrified if it's been just ONE teacher
  
  who’s refused.
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- December 18, 2018 at 10:30 PM #2237
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  A boycott by me
  
  I don’t like being this way but I won’t buy herbal extracts from Israel as I’ve yet to see any that allow me to know/find out that they’re not grown on occupied territory. And now that I think about it, wasn’t there talk of making it illegal to ask?
  
  I could have scored a good deal on Cilantro grown in Israel and processed in Hawaii, but it didn’t feel right.
  
  I’m open to buying stuff from Israel proper.
  
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