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    2 days ago

    Obviously bad but god I’m sick of bullshit headlines. Makes it sound like we’re one Senate vote away from banning it entirely, get scared enough to click in, turns out it’s actually just that federal contractors can’t protest Israel now

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      1/3 of the USA economy depends on the contracts; including the majority of USA colleges and universities. Over half the population indirectly provides services to these contractors.

      It is not impossible to make it later a condition that defense contractors cannot do business with boycotting companies. That would effectively end the movement in the USA