I believe that the original post is under the assumption that this is a political activism site. If that turns out to be the case, see yall.

When you make such a claim it would be helpful - to those of us who apparently do not follow the news as closely as you do on this topic (or at least not the same news) - to include some links or at least descriptions to illustrate the claim that you're making. I follow a lot of news, and while I understand what BDS is in principle, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott%2C_Divestment_and_Sanctions ... see how easy that was?) I don't know a thing about the claim that you're making.

But since BDS exists and hasn't been driven underground, and I'm not aware of any criminal charges that have been leveled at BDS supporters (some of whom exist in Congress today) I'm having trouble processing the claim that you've made that "the government is banning political speech from the BDS movement" ... when the entire movement is entirely political. Your claim seems ludicrous on its face.

So please, make whatever claims you want, but then back them up with links, facts that you know (and a source for those), even an anecdote would be better than nothing.

IF what you say is true, and the government is censoring people's political speech (narrowly, I mean, not banning, say, threats, incitements to violence and statements of outright intimidation and so forth, which are always illegal), then I don't agree with that ... even though I don't agree with BDS, either.

So ... what are your facts?

Well, those policies cannot stand. Federal judges are ruling that such a boycott cannot be banned. So, the American courts are working in defense of the rights you claim are being abrogated. But, imagine what will happen to such rights if the neo-bolsheviks such as AOC or Kamala (her parents must have spoken Finnish) Harris get their way and America is turned into a socialist state. In that case, forget about ;the rights of any individual or group. Far better that we expend our energy protecting conservative values and the constitution. Because once socialism gets a firm foothold, such rights as you are now defending will become the stuff of history books in other countries.

BDS legislation, it's incomprehensible to me. And that the Dems refuse to condem Ilhan Omar, disgusting! That there isn't more pushback by the so called SJW movement, just proves the lack of teaching of unbiased history in schools is a mistake. I get that there is a globalist agenda, but what I seriously want to know is, who are the forces and funding behind it? Saudi Arabia would be first on my list of possible suspects. Our emerging domination of the fossil fuel market, while I absolutely hate fracking, is a vital push back.

This is really a tough one.
The major supportes of bds are:
Communists
White supremacists
Islamic terrorists.

So its hard to be agreeing with those people who are all over the political spectrum

I don’t support BDS. Yet I can’t support speech suppresion laws, even against BDS yet I cannot make a big deal about this when there’s bigger problems and perhaps that’s the answer

BDS has ties to terrorist organizations. That's why it's banned. Can I campaign for ISIS in America? No because common sense.

Don't worry, the fury is building up and backlash is in due course...

WTF is the BDS?

We are at least able to speak about BDS here, so IDW is not remaining silent. IDW is us, as I understand it. It is disturbing to me that 26 states currently prohibit state contracts to any business that has supported BDS.

You realize this is just an open forum for people to discuss topics and ideas there's not some cabal of people that are working behind the scenes to do anyting

They aren't the "defenders of free speech" they are the advocators of open uncomfortable conversations that need to be had. No major media outlet wants to honestly touch these topics with a 10ft pole, for maybeTucker Carlson (but even he is skewed)