US anti-boycott laws and their implications for free speech - Boycott | Documentary
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An Arkansas news publisher, an Arizona lawyer and a speech therapist in Texas take on their respective states in the U.S. over new anti-boycott legislation. They refuse to sign their work contracts which, by law, require them to agree not to boycott Israel. They each challenge their states under their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
For Alan Leveritt it’s not about the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – he does not want to boycott - but about his constitutional right to do so if he does want to. For the others, their challenge is personal as well as principled. What’s at stake is the right to express their own political views through boycotting anything they want, as well as the deeper right to freedom of expression enshrined in the US constitution.
In Part two, ‘In Court’, as their legal fight moves to the courts, we explore the support for these laws inside the U.S. and beyond and look back at the history of boycott-as-protest in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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