And I can’t even imagine it’s an intentional addition, it’s just become part of boiler plate legal documents here in the deep south.
so what if you don’t buy enough Jaffa cakes you can be evicted
Once upon a time I wanted to start a coffee shop/bookstore back when I lived in Texas. Looked into the laws around starting business and it turns out that to own and operate a business in Texas you must swear fealty to Israel.
Fuck that
It’s more about preventing people from actively taking part in the BDS movement than the specifics of a boycott. The goal is to dissuade people from vocally supporting Palestine and from taking part in activism efforts
Lmao what can you even do as a powerless prole living in a genocidal nation state
People always fucking say “how could the people let this happen” when discussing genocides of the past and the simple answer is that they were probably in the same fact situation we’re in right now (no power whatsoever)
The Nazi Seizure of Power is a somewhat obscure book, but it’s great because it tells the story of a single small town in Germany, and their experience before, during, and immediately after the Nazis came to power. Two things that stood out to me when reading it:
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Just how much folks in the KPD (and to be fair, at least in this town, the SPD) fought and fought hard against the Nazis before they took power.
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Once the Nazis did take power, if you tried to fight against them, if you’re caught you’re gone. Maybe jail. Maybe killed. But any resistance was dealt with pretty harshly.
You can beat the Nazi off the street - but once the libs hand them the keys to the tanks, it’s over.
Is that actually legal? Tenant rights (and anti-BDS legislation) vary state to state, but this seems particularly egregious.
They probably figure it’s extremely unlikely to come up. Unless you have:
- A tenant who boycotts Israel
- And tells their landlord about it
- And the landlord wants to get rid of them
- And the landlord can’t come up with a more conventional excuse
- And the tenant knows their rights and has the resources to fight
Nobody would likely challenge it.
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Honestly I haven’t done the investigation to say. It very well could be an unenforceable part of their lease. But the south is notorious for insane anti-tenant legislation so I wouldn’t be surprised. My state famously banned the passing of rent control legislation so good luck running your local socialist candidate for mayor they can’t do anything even if they win
