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The Return of Status-based Law

Paul Craig Roberts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjCM_fz21Y 

In this episode of On Target, Larry Sparano and I discuss the assault on the Constitution by the Speaker of the House, Majority Leader of the Senate, and president-elect Donald Trump.  The assault weapon is the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which has already passed the Republican House.  Senator Schumer is attempting to avoid a stand alone vote on the Act by attaching it to the defense appropriations bill.  That way the  senators can say they voted for the defense bill and not against the First and Fourteenth Amendments.  

The Antisemitism Awareness Act is the Israel Lobby’s response to the university protests against Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinians.  The bill conflates Israel with Jews, defines Jews as “protected persons,” and removes accreditation and federal financial support from universities that fail to prevent student protests against Israel and Jews in general.  In effect it prohibits criticism of Jews.  Criticism is undefined. In practice it will include anything to which Jews object.

The Act is a violation of the 14th Amendment which requires equal protection of the law.  The Antisemitism Awareness Act creates status-based privileges for a specific group that are denied to others.  The Act also violates the 1st Amendment’s protection of free speech........more.........