A Texas school employee has sued her school district because it fired her after she refused to sign a loyalty oath to Israel, as Marjorie Cohn reports.

Fired School Employee Sues Over Israel Loyalty Oath

In a return to the bad old days of McCarthyism, Bahia Amawi, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent, lost her Texas elementary school job after refusing to pledge in writing that she would not participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Earlier this month, Amawi sued the school district that fired her. 

Twenty-six U.S. states have anti-BDS laws and 13 others are pending. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which would have to be reintroduced when the new Congress convenes in January, was supported by Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed the bill.

Demonstrating the incongruity of allowing Amawi to boycott any entity but Israel, Greenwald noted, “In order to continue to work, Amawi would be perfectly free to engage in any political activism against her own country, participate in an economic boycott of any state or city within the US, or work against the policies of any other government in the world — except Israel.”

DYI:  A loyalty oath??  A loyalty oath of any kind is an injury to the sensibilities of Americans.  A loyalty oath to a foreign government is not just an insult but outrageous.  This nonsense legislation has been passed in 26 States and pending in many others.  Most folks don’t think about Israel one way or the other but when they are hit with this insanity that lack of an opinion will soon developed and highly likely in a negative light!  Hopefully this will soon be struck down in one court after another as clearly unconstitutional but in the meantime Israel is going to suffer much bad press.

 DYI