Currently you cannot do business with a foreign company that requires you to boycott Israel.

A little background though, might be a clue there somewhere.

We cannot contract or do business with anyone that also requires us to boycott Israel. For example if we're contracting with a company in Saudi Arabia we can't agree to a stipulation that says no parts or whatever won't come from Israel or that we as a company won't do business with Israel.

If we as a company didn't want to do business with Israel that's not against the law. Even with this new law you aren't forced to do business with anyone.

that seems, by news accounts, to have been initiated by Gillibrand and enforced by Schumer.

They don't remember that they represent us, do they.

many with strong feelings about Israel's chances for survival.

Schumer also pressed Trump to make the recent announcement about recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel.

Although Schumer is Senate Minority Leader he is also senator representing New Yorkers.

I think this is a political reality.

Joseph Biden represented the interests of the Banking Credit Card industry because it is the major industry and employer in Delaware.

this has nothing to do with their pushing Franken out which had more to do with them wanting to grandstand and appear pure .

I'm interested in figuring out whether Schumer and Gillibrand have a pact and if he was / is pushing her to run in 2020

Or were they just anti discrimination? If Israel built a plant spewing out massive amounts of fluorocarbons expanding the ozone hole above Antarctica would a blockade of Israeli exports be anti Semitic? Or just anti ozone hole? Most Jews disagree with many policies of the Israeli government. Are they anti Semitic? I think Jews are great. I also think some of the policies of The Israeli government are horrible. Calling me anti Semitic is absurd.

The “Findings of Congress” seem batshit crazy

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:

(1) The United Nations Human Rights Council (in this section referred to as the “UNHRC”) has long targeted Israel with systematic, politically motivated, assaults on its legitimacy designed to stigmatize and isolate Israel internationally.

(2) The UNHRC maintains a permanent agenda item known as “Item 7” to ensure that Israel will be criticized at every gathering of the UNHRC.

(3) At its 31st session on March 24, 2016, the UNHRC targeted Israel with a commercial boycott, calling for the establishment of a database, such as a “blacklist”, of companies that operate, or have business relations with entities that operate, beyond Israel’s 1949 Armistice lines, including East Jerusalem.

(4) At its 32nd session in March 2017, the UNHRC is considering a resolution pursuant to agenda item 7 to withhold assistance from and prevent trade with “territories occupied since 1967”, including East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, stating that businesses that engage in economic activity in those areas could face civil or criminal legal action.

(5) For a half century, Congress has combated anti-Israel boycotts and other discriminatory activity under the Export Administration Act of 1979 (as continued in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)), under part VI of title X of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–455; 90 Stat. 1649) (commonly referred to as the “Ribicoff Amendment”), in free trade agreements with Bahrain and Oman, and in Saudi Arabia’s accession negotiations to the World Trade Organization.

(6) The recent action of the UNHRC is reminiscent of the Arab League Boycott, which also called for the establishment of a “blacklist” and promoted a primary, as well as a secondary and tertiary, boycott against Israel, targeting United States and other companies that trade or invest with or in Israel, designed to harm Israel, any business operating in, or doing business with, Israel, or companies that do business with companies operating in Israel.

(7) Congress recently passed anti-boycott, divestment, and sanctions measures in the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.) and section 909 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4452), which establish, among other things—

(A) the opposition of the United States to actions to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel;

(B) requirements that the United States utilize trade negotiations to combat state-led or international governmental organization-led actions to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel; and

(C) reporting requirements regarding the actions of foreign countries or international organizations that establish barriers to trade or investment for United States companies in or with Israel.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22israel+anti-boycott+act%22%5D%7D&r=2

I joined DU mostly to argue in support of Israel. True story. I realize now that at times I was wrong, and the more wrong that Israel’s government became, the more wrong I became. I should have listened to my Dad. I’ve talked here before about how he went to Hebrew school with Sheldon Adelson, how they were as close to “friends” as an asshole like Adelson can be (at least as kids), shit like that. I should have listened to him when he said that, especially since 1967, Zionists were the biggest crooks of all — and that’s coming from a guy who made life decisions based on Bugsy Siegel’s decisions.

of the political spectrum. I'll admit that I don't understand it as well as I should. Many of us don't. Into those spaces of ignorance the "biggest crooks" run their games.

Guess I'm not a Dem anymore?

and identity crisis.

Who wants to identify with this kind of behavior - and on top of that we don't
even know the real motivation - they'll try not to talk about it anymore

The plot thickens.

all other senators they needed to get on board with the strategy on Franken....or else.

Last year Schumer backed Sanders plan to focus on white male Trump voters in rust belt states and gave Sanders a role in Senate leadership; after the female voter driven victories, he is backing Gillebrand's zero tolerance plan. Notably Sanders joined in against Franken.

Not that anyone should be giving Greenwald or the intercept any clicks these days.

But I guess it’s all about the pile on.

left and right this week. Have they been swilling something?

My only understanding of Zionism is what I had learned as an Evangelical Christian, which is Israel was given to the Jewish people by God, so they have a right to the land above all others. It's a religious thing, with Jews being placed above all others as the chosen people of God. Being an Atheist, that is an idea I find rather abhorent, as others had made Israel home for many generations. By what I had learned, I am defenitely anti-Zionist.