David French has finally dropped the mask on how he has been
coming up with screwy ideas about giving legal cover to a bunch of criminals
who want to keep on committing crimes like they have been since the beginning
of time.
He wrote: “The Anti-Semitic BDS Movement Advocates Illegal
Discrimination,” an article that also came under the subtitle: “In their zeal
to punish Israel, the movement's proponents push for violation of non-discrimination
laws.” It was published on July 18, 2019 in National Review Online.
French's beef this time is that “Ilhan Omar co-sponsored a
resolution designed to support the anti-Semitic BDS movement against Israel.”
His complaint is this: “The resolution doesn't mention Israel and is crafted as
an ode to free speech.” And so, he explains: “Individual anti-Semites have as
much right to boycott Israeli products as individual racists have the right to
refuse to patronize black-owned businesses. The fact that the Constitution
protects such conduct doesn't render it less repugnant”.
Watch now how the devious lawyer employs a convoluted logic to
argue that this constitutionally protected but “repugnant” refusal to buy
Israeli products leads to the commission of an unlawful act. He does it by
warning that to exercise one's right to support BDS “often leads to advocate
violations of the law.” How is that, you ask? Well, it's because the movement
is anti-Semitic, he says … and that's how the law is violated.
To prove his point, he gives the example of how he intervened in
one such case in 2014 and won the argument. He says he served as counsel at the
ACLJ where he co-authored a letter to a hotel informing it that it might
violate California's nondiscrimination law if it hosted the ASA's annual
meeting, given that the latter had declared it was honoring BDS. This veiled
threat apparently had the effect of the hotel working to convince the ASA to
allow the Israelis to participate in the meeting.
David French goes on to say that later that year, he coauthored
another letter, making a similar argument to Janet Napolitano, president of the
UC system, warning her that if the student-employee union voted to join the BDS
movement, the UC system risked violating the law. Well, David French does not
say what happened to this warning, but Janet Napolitano is known for her robust
will to resist intimidation, especially when it comes from a little fart of the
David French caliber. And so, we must assume that she ignored him or that she
gave him a very robust Italian middle finger.
Unable to show a big win he can be proud of; David French borrowed
the Jewish trick of immersing himself in a vitriolic rant aimed at slandering
those he calls anti-Semites. After a short preamble, he found nothing else to
say, thus repeated some of the quotes that were gathered by the Jewish Virtual
Library, in which anonymous “anti-Semites” were said to have expressed the
desire to see the apartheid system of Israel end the same way that it did in
South Africa.
But not even for a moment was David French able to show why those
who honor BDS are anti-Semites or that they help promote anti-Semitism
knowingly or inadvertently. Do you know why this cannot be done, my friend?
Because –– as shown in the two examples cited by French –– no one at the hotel
and no one at the UC system tried to ban or curtail the activities of Jews.
It's because people who honor BDS do not hate Jews, they only want to see the
Jews of Israel stop hating the Palestinians so much as to ban them from going
into their homes, plowing their fields and living their lives like everyone
else on the planet. In fact, nobody in America or anywhere else is advocating
the BDS of Jews. They only advocate the BDS of products made in Israel by
enslaved Palestinian workers.
In fact, if you want to see swarms of Jewish diplomats gathered in
one place, go to an American embassy in an Arab capital, and you'll find it
overflowing with Jews that came into the country using an American passport or
any other passport that is not Israel's. That's because there too, nobody is
boycotting the Jews; they only boycott the entity of Israel that's boycotting
the Palestinian people simply because they are Christian, or they are Muslim,
but they are not Jewish.
Finally, a David French article would not be a David French
article if it did not end with a glaring exhibition of the criminal insanity
that inspired it. Look how David French ended his article this time:
“When Ilhan Omar supports BDS … the Constitution grants her the same
rights it grants all other bigots, but for the movement to mean anything it has
to violate the law, including the very non-discrimination statutes that were
designed to lead the United States out of its Jim Crow past”.