Israel, Greece, and Cyprus Emerge as a Bulwark of Freedom in the Eastern Mediterranean
A counterweight to Russia, Iran, and Turkey.
December 20, 2018
No, Texas Schools Don’t Require Employees to Sign a “Pro-Israel Oath”
And anti-BDS bills don’t threaten freedom of speech.
A Texas speech pathologist has recently filed suit on First Amendment grounds because a public school that hired her as a contractor asked her to sign a statement mandated by the state’s law against boycotts of Israel. When the incident was first reported in the viciously anti-Israel Intercept, a headline described the statement as a “pro-Israel oath.” Not only is that false, many of the details given in the article itself—which have since been repeated in many media outlets that picked up the story—are misleading or incorrect. David E. Bernstein sets the record straight and explains why the law does not violate freedom of speech:
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The Palestinian Authority’s Contradictory Claims about Jerusalem
Occupied territory or corpus separatum?
No, Texas Schools Don’t Require Employees to Sign a “Pro-Israel Oath”
And anti-BDS bills don’t threaten freedom of speech.
The Literary Genius of the Hebrew Bible
Ancient Israelite authors “totally eclipsed their neighbors.”
Marc Chagall’s Jewish Reality and His Jewish Imagination
What exactly was it that his work captured?