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Literally the first bill passed by the new Senate contains Marco Rubio's bill allowing states to punish Americans for boycotting Israel. 23 Dems (including Schumer) joined all GOP but one (Paul) to vote yes. All 2020 candidates voted no except Klobuchar senate.gov/legislative/LI…
The Rubio bill requiring Americans to avoid disloyalty to Israel is plainly unconstitutional. 2 federal courts have nullified it on free speech grounds. It allows people to be fired for boycotting Israel (theintercept.com/2018/12/17/isr…). More here: theintercept.com/2019/01/05/u-s…
AIPAC, obviously, is celebrating passage (its their creature). But it's unclear if it will pass the House. Pelosi is a long-time AIPAC loyalist but Israel politics have changed within the Dem Party (for the better). Here's @ACLU on how odious this bill is aclu.org/news/aclu-comm…
Also, it's a good time to recall that the sham claim that "the two parties can't agree on anything and there's so little bipartisanship in DC" is sustained only by wilfully ignoring the vast, highly significant areas where the two parties unite, especially on war & militarism 
