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As Israel Apartheid Week sweeps across American college campuses, BDS activists have a new weapon in their media arsenal.
Boycott, a documentary film produced by Julia Bacha of Just Vision, follows two BDS activists and a newspaper editor, as they and their attorneys from the ACLU challenge the anti-BDS laws in federal courts across the United States. These laws, which exist in more than half the states, prohibit state contractors from boycotting Israel or entities that do business with it.
The film’s three heroes – Bahia Amawi, a speech pathologist from Texas; Mikkel Jordahl, a prison attorney from Arizona; and Alan Leveritt, the editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Times all refused to certify that they wouldn’t boycott Israel while under contract with their states and each lost their job or access to state advertising as a result. The film’s basic argument is that the anti-BDS laws violate the First Amendment, subordinating Americans’ free speech rights to the interests of a foreign power.
That narrative is patently false, as my academic work on this subject has shown. But that hasn’t stopped major American media outlets, like Time Magazine, the Washington Post and others, from promoting the film and amplifying its false claims since it became available for streaming, last month.
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