Welcome to the Empire Files. I'm Abby Martin. In case you're not familiar with this case,

please check the links in the description below for more information. Long story short, back in 2020,

I was barred from speaking at Georgia Southern University because Georgia is one of dozens of states

across the country with anti-BDS or boycott divestment and sanctions against Israel,

laws on the books. In order to speak there, I was asked to sign a loyalty oath to Israel,

pledging to never support or advocate for the BDS movement. As a staunch advocate for

Palestinian human rights, I refused to sign the contract. Instead, I filed a lawsuit to sue the state for violating my First Amendment rights,

with the hope of getting the law overturned.

And in May of 2021, on the heels of another vicious Israeli onslaught in Gaza,

Georgia Federal District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled in my favor.

This was a huge victory and added to the

precedence set by legal challenges against these unjust laws in other states. This, of course,

outraged the Israeli government, which lashed out on social media and went to work trying to overturn

our victory. These laws were on the books in the first place, not because of the desire

of the American people, but because of the desire of the Israeli lobby. But once a judge

deemed Georgia's law unconstitutional, Israeli officials openly worked with Georgia's politicians

to request that the lobby changed, not repealed. This is not even hidden.

Check out how crazy this is.

And the actual legislative session an Israeli government official was present.

The state legislature officials even admitted that this Israeli official was the one that asked them to change the law.

And they complied in a shocking act of

foreign subversion. I was completely taken aback by how openly Georgia's politicians were literally

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