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🗓️ 23 February 2022
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Empire Files. I'm Abby Martin. In case you're not familiar with this case, |
0:05.9 | please check the links in the description below for more information. Long story short, back in 2020, |
0:11.6 | I was barred from speaking at Georgia Southern University because Georgia is one of dozens of states |
0:16.6 | across the country with anti-BDS or boycott divestment and sanctions against Israel, |
0:22.3 | laws on the books. In order to speak there, I was asked to sign a loyalty oath to Israel, |
0:27.7 | pledging to never support or advocate for the BDS movement. As a staunch advocate for |
0:32.4 | Palestinian human rights, I refused to sign the contract. Instead, I filed a lawsuit to sue the state for violating my First Amendment rights, |
0:41.1 | with the hope of getting the law overturned. |
0:43.6 | And in May of 2021, on the heels of another vicious Israeli onslaught in Gaza, |
0:49.5 | Georgia Federal District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled in my favor. |
0:53.6 | This was a huge victory and added to the |
0:55.9 | precedence set by legal challenges against these unjust laws in other states. This, of course, |
1:01.8 | outraged the Israeli government, which lashed out on social media and went to work trying to overturn |
1:07.0 | our victory. These laws were on the books in the first place, not because of the desire |
1:11.4 | of the American people, but because of the desire of the Israeli lobby. But once a judge |
1:16.9 | deemed Georgia's law unconstitutional, Israeli officials openly worked with Georgia's politicians |
1:22.9 | to request that the lobby changed, not repealed. This is not even hidden. |
1:29.1 | Check out how crazy this is. |
1:30.9 | And the actual legislative session an Israeli government official was present. |
1:36.1 | The state legislature officials even admitted that this Israeli official was the one that asked them to change the law. |
1:43.8 | And they complied in a shocking act of |
1:47.4 | foreign subversion. I was completely taken aback by how openly Georgia's politicians were literally |
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