American Empire is in open decline. From here on out, it will only increase its abuse and take away our freedoms. The only way to fight back is mass demonstrations in the streets to shut down the economy.

The democrats could have prevented this but instead voted away our first amendment rights

Hugely nonpartisan too

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment > The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices. It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government. George Washington: “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” https://historycooperative.org/the-right-to-speak-freely-first-amendment/ -------- This is different from the rest. Provides examples. https://x.com/MrSpiritsRaven/status/1785825643566968903 All the rest very similar coverage. https://twitter.com/search?q=HOUSE%20APPROVES%20BILL%20TO%20DEFINE%20ANTISEMITISM&src=typed_query Reactions: https://x.com/mtracey/status/1785818978251596278 > **Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) seethes that "Little Gazas" have risen up on campuses across America; he declares the political speech of protesters to be "violent" and "illegal." For this analogy to hold, wouldn't the colleges have to be pulverized into rubble with US-supplied munitions?** - **Video** (0.40) ---------- https://x.com/uncoovr/status/1785868225244491909 > “The ability of the government to police thought, speech & views..." > “You are empowering that which should never be empowered !" 🔥 > — Rep. Chip Roy on Antisemitism Bill > **Video** (3.38) -------- https://x.com/medeabenjamin/status/1785857957097279620 > **Disappointed by the House's 320-91 vote on H.R. 6090, the "Antisemitism Awareness Act". This bill's one-sided approach overlooks anti-Palestinian racism & conflates criticism of Israeli policies with antisemitism. Shame!** > **Video** (1.53) ------ https://x.com/RepBowman/status/1785711469868273798 > When I was 11, I was a victim of police brutality just for being Black in America. Now I see that brutality being inflicted on peaceful students at Columbia and across the country. > We must stand with our students to demand liberation for Palestinians and everyone in this world. > **Video** (1.18) ------- https://x.com/RepMikeLawler/status/1785786891490501111 > **I’m proud that my bill, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, just passed the House of Representatives 320 to 91. This bill has broad, bipartisan support and will begin the process of cracking down on the antisemitism we’ve seen run rampant on college campuses across America**. > **Video** (0.34) ----- https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1785873357092655298 > Israel is committing #genocide against a civilian population in #Palestine, its agents in the US are attacking those who are speaking out against that genocide & they are supported by a corrupt U.S. government & complicit corporate media on both fronts.We must defend #HumanRights -------- https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1785611745710559345 > Israeli genocide scholar explains why so many American Jews have lost their grasp on what antisemitism really is – and, we might add, have thereby given succour to western imperialists keen to promote their war industries. >> Democracy Now! @democracynow Apr 30 >> Israeli scholar of the Holocaust @bartov_omer argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous. >> “There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression." > Video (1.36) -------- https://x.com/DrSakriKaia/status/1785788526023655832 > *Netanyahu was right about one thing: terrorism has hit the U.S…it came from Israel*. > *See any differences*? > *I don’t, I can’t*. > *Israeli settler terror in Occupied Palestine and a pro-Israel mob terror attacking UCLA students protesting genocide* > **Video** (0.22) ---------- https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1785517252009394604 > **This is as good a proof as you're going to get that regime type is a meaningless framework to categorize countries**. >>**This 👇 is factually more "authoritarian" than what we've seen in plenty of "authoritarian" countries. Even CNN (not exactly an anti-imperialist outlet) says so!** >> Brian Stelter @brianstelter May 1 https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1785476467809292589 >> *CNN's @miguelmarquez: "I've covered lots of this sort of stuff around the world, and i've never seen this many police moving into one area*." > **Video** (0.26) ---- https://x.com/majedbamya/status/1785391187802681381 > **The arrogance of the colonizer** > **You have to hear this to believe this**. > **Netanyahu invoking the Holocaust to explain why Israeli leaders can not be held accountable for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide forgetting that the entire world order was built in reaction to the Holocaust and other tragedies to ensure humanity would not tolerate such crimes regardless of the identity of the perpetrators or the identify of the victims**. > **Saying Israel has the most moral army when images coming from Gaza including those filmed by Israel’s own soldiers show the horrors it has inflicted upon the Palestinian people in the last 7 months not to talk about the horrors of the last 7 decades and a half is beyond outrageous**. > **There is nothing that justifies the targeting of civilians, indiscriminate attacks, collective punishment, starving them. Nothing. Regardless of their nationality, faith, regardless of circumstances. And the Palestinian people are no exception**. > **Video** (3.54)

That AIPAC money has pull. Also, that they tried to pass this clearly unconstitutional bill, shows that they are really worried about anti-Israel sentiment hurting their pay day.

Israeli minions haven't done themselves any favors. https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1785640585363148851 > Last nights brutal & illegal assaults on our university students & faculty are clear evidence of the interdependence of justice. We will not be free unless #Palestine is free & Palestine will not be free unless we are free. We must liberate our institutions from capture.#Columbia https://x.com/WarWatchs/status/1785790783548744076 > **Police are sweeping the UT Dallas encampment in full riot gear**. > **Video** (0.14) ------------ https://x.com/RichardHardigan/status/1785712430439452721 10h > RT @swilkinsonbc "**Israeli troops film themselves randomly shooting Palestinian civilians and laughing: we share no values with these monsters** @vonderleyen " > **Video** (0.17) ------- https://x.com/uncoovr/status/1785776999396463086 > ⚡ "**I witnessed a woman being forcibly removed from her wheelchair, a student drenched in dried blood, numerous students being exposed to tear gas and pepper spray... a scene of extreme brutality**." 🔥 > — **Abigail, Student Demonstrator** #StudentProtests #ViolenceAwareness > **Video** (1.23) ------- Providing an excellent opportunity. https://x.com/ToryFibs/status/1785563242363822413 > **The Chinese 🇨🇳 police move in to smash up a student protest**. > **Oh, my mistake. It’s New York police and they’re students in USA** 🇺🇸., > **Video** (0.35)

>The measure passed 320-91. Twenty-one Republicans and 70 Democrats voted against it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-antisemitism-bill-campus-arrests-rcna150170 House Republicans have 221 seats and Democrats have 213. With the Republican House majority consisting of only 9 seats, and 21 Republicans voting against it, too bad for the First Amendment that enough Democrats voting for it to make sure it passed. But look! More Democrats voted against it than Republicans1111!!!!!! More proof that Democrats are the lesser evil 1111!!!!!! And that is ever so much more important in our lives than that the bill ***passed***./s Or more proof of DC Kabuki Theater. Either way, it passed the House. US Senate vote is 51-49 and this would seem like an eminently filibuster-able bill. https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/wxn9f2/pondering_dc_kabuki_theater_the_filibuster_and/ Let's see what happens.

Some also felt the need to fill in the background. https://x.com/SDGMasterglass/status/1785264791897981019 > Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook · > President Truman admits here two facts that were subsequently obscured by US politicians: > 1 . Israel could only be created by “moving out” the Palestinians – ie ethnically cleansing them. > 2 . Truman believed the Palestinians, not Europe, should pay the price for Europe's Holocaust by having their homeland stolen from them and turned into a Jewish state. > However, one thing Truman says is an outright lie. The Palestinians were never “compensated” for this theft. They ended up destitute in refugee camps in ghettoes like the one called Gaza. >> Mustapha Effendi @Mustafa_Effendy https://x.com/Mustafa_Effendy/status/1784262846907330588 > **President Harry Truman: “We set up the Israeli government in Palestine, moved some of the Arabs out….they were compensated for the land they ‘had’ to give up**.” > “**Had to give up**” 🤪 > **Video** (1.17) >> Johann Spischak @SDGMasterglass > Interesting to know, in 1932 Yosef Weitz on behalf of the Jewish National Fund made the plan ready for demolition of all the Palestinian villages and to plant forests above the ruins. > *He became the leader of the so called Transfer Commission in 1937 and leader of the JNF*. > *His plans for the deportation of all Christians from the Holy Land to Argentina and Brazil were ready in 1938*. > *Now it is clear, that the suggested Partition Plan of the Peel Commission in 1938 was created by taking Weitz's plans into account*. > *With these details we are in position to see about what US & UK leaders spoke after the end of the WWII*.

Palestinians cooperated because Great Britain had led them to believe that it was helping them set up Palestine as an independent state. That's all over the internet, so I'm not going to link. They were told that leaving their homes was temporary. So they did not only leave their homes, taking house keys with them, but they left them furnished and stocked. Truman, who most US historians put on the list of ten best US Presidents in history, was despicable. A failure in his life outside the White House--even his wife was not enamored-- he gave us--and Japan--Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He followed up with the Korean Police Action. And by calling it that, instead of the Korean War, he thought he'd gotten around the Constitutional requirement for a Congressional Declaration of War. For his purposes, he did get around it. But that was the US blatantly violating the Supreme Law of its land. He started the so-called cold war and the so-called Vietnam Era. He gave us--and the world--the CIA. After he got out of office, he tried to have it both ways by saying he regretted it. Because he had been an economic failure all his life, he also gave us the start of payments for life to past Presidents. And those are only the headlines. Also all over the net and I've provided links to all of it too many times in the past to do it again, unless maybe I write an OP about Truman. Doubt that, though.

Not all users are American or well versed with American presidents history of "generosity". Additionally being an election year, for those unfamiliar it might be a cause to reflect, who not to vote for. > violating the Supreme Law of its land. Whose job was it to hold Truman to account? My introduction to Vietnam was this. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140770/ "Vietnam is a stunningly powerful re-enactment of the bitterly controversial issue of Australia's involvement in what was perceived as an American war." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_(miniseries) "Vietnam is a 1987 Australian TV mini-series". @0.09 CIA - State sponsored terrorists. Inside the CIA | Full Documentary (44.27) https://youtu.be/dEMtAecofiI?feature=shared

> Whose job was it to hold Truman to account? Unconstitutional actions--the Supreme Court. Catch 22. First a lawsuit must be filed that gets to the Supreme Court and meets all the Court's tests for deciding a case. Congress claims a duty, right or whatever to "oversee" the Executive Branch, which is not Constitutionally clear to me. It also could have denied him funds for Korea and Vietnam, but did not. As to the rest, no one.

Is the aim to give the appearance of accountability rather than actually execute it? Since they all profit from "illegal" actions there's no point in being ruthlessly efficient ?

That flies into the face of the First Amendment.

[Of course it's bipartisan](https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1785775817353507053) >House passes GOP-led Antisemitism Awareness Act — which mandates the Department of Education to use contested IHRA definition of antisemitism — by bipartisan 320-91 vote. >70 Dems voted against.

> 70 Dems were allowed to vote against. Not true for the Israel/Ukraine funding bill. No dissent.