Where do you think Walmart gets its merch? You’re just pointing to different steps in the supply chain.
The anti-BDS rules are, functionally speaking, not even bans on how you engage with the economy. They’re bans on your speech. You can go to Walmart or not. You can buy things or not. What you can’t do is step outside the store and announce “I didn’t purchase a Sodastream specifically because it would profit Israel”.
And, again, going back to Morse v. Frederick and Harisiades v. Shaughnessy and United States v. O’Brien all lay out instances in which the US government can restrict speech. This is just the latest encroachment.
A big joint labeled “AIPAC” that got passed to them in a Federalist Society blunt rotation.
You absolutely can and we routinely do. Just look at the embargo of Cuba, for instance.
You can ban imports, you cannot dictate that I buy products from fucking Walmart.
And yet… I would’t bat an eye if I saw a new executive order tomorrow requiring that.
Executive orders aren’t worth shit to citizens. All he can do is order the executive branch around.
Where do you think Walmart gets its merch? You’re just pointing to different steps in the supply chain.
The anti-BDS rules are, functionally speaking, not even bans on how you engage with the economy. They’re bans on your speech. You can go to Walmart or not. You can buy things or not. What you can’t do is step outside the store and announce “I didn’t purchase a Sodastream specifically because it would profit Israel”.
And, again, going back to Morse v. Frederick and Harisiades v. Shaughnessy and United States v. O’Brien all lay out instances in which the US government can restrict speech. This is just the latest encroachment.