theintercept | Could someone explain why it’s noble, enlightened, justifiable, and
progressive to boycott an American state, but hateful, bigoted,
retrograde, and evil to support a boycott of a foreign country that has
been imposing a brutal, discriminatory, and illegal occupation for many
decades, a boycott that is led by people with virtually no political
rights? How did that happen? Hillary Clinton is far from the only person
espousing this bizarre distinction — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as but
one example, is punishing companies that support a boycott of Israel while forcing state employees to honor the boycott of North Carolina — but what could possibly justify U.S. politicians drawing the moral and ethical lines about boycotts in this manner?
