just of verbal mold, the 90 percent of buildings in the strip have been destroyed in the course of israel's war. the few structures still standing by at the right and people here are desperate. there are no options left. that was shut out mid 10 to plot. what can i was thinking, a mecca, we slept industry for 2 consecutive nights when we couldn't find any center result people opening up displays and key things that are built up and that's where we came thinking it was. so it's a good but it's really nice to my daughter to nice sleep here and dogs, commuters, there's some confusion everywhere. these really ami has forced hundreds of thousands of palestinians to leave areas where they had sought refuge. in the last 4 months alone, it's issued. 39 forced evacuation. owed is nearly 82 percent of the land in gaza is now listed as a militarized zone. prohibited for civilians that has confined nearly

2000000 people in an ever shrinking space. the time we were forced to flee to this place, which now houses more than 50 families on may all from jamalia in northern gospel, the building is destroyed, but it's impossible to live on the street. raw sewage is spread through the street and this group calls for a health. this has to remember, you know, the you, when says that since the breakdown of us, he's 5 much, 665000 people have become nearly displaced. even open spaces are now overcrowded with no room for make shift attends regina and is the one of the one number that goodness we search the lot and found nothing but this place to flee to. we know it's dangerous, but we have no other choice. when we arrived, the rubble was 3 meters high. we worked for 2 continuous days to clear it just to

be able to lift gate as despite the risk. we have no escape like and the choices left are dangerous and limited. i the faced the risk of a building collapsing or state out in the cold the people of gauze. i say that technically they are alive. but the ask if this is living wherever the set up a new home. these really ami is of a close by ready to push them out. the next new r o g 0. it. all right, that's it for me and how much enrolled me you can find more information on our website, delta 0 dot com. the newest continues here on alger 0 after boy. thanks for watching the

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my name is margaret hester and from arkansas, and i'm a state senator and the majority leader here in arkansas. so 1st of all, i'm very open about my face and i was very open about that in my campaign. and i hope that my face affects everything that i do hope it affects the way that i'm speaking to you. i hope that affects the way that have treat all my colleagues. and i certainly hope effects every vote that i take majority later set or bart has servers recognize as positive anti boycott bill because, you know, i think it's just the right thing to do. jewish people are gods chosen people and i feel like an obligation to do anything within my control or power to support them or protect the

members of that'll says what this does. this is an act driven public and these from contracting with and investing in companies the boycott. israel. it's good pro israel mill by a sen. hester, appreciate again that the state is not protected from the church, but the church is protected from the state. i would say if there's 35 members of the arkansas center, i would say 35 members would say that they are believers in biology, scratch pressing for the house. this passage has sent a bill for 13 repair of the machine mister blurred. i would say probably half would identifies evangelicals. they understand how important it is to support his real 69 days, 3 days, 0 present. the bill is past the

. 6 the, the, the, so this is where a lot of the providers are coming from now. our family has been here for generations. my grandfather, he was a farmer. all my uncles for farmers, as you know were scotch, irish. i mean, we're just white trash farmers. i'd be of assistance, but that has square ricoh problem.

the . i've left college, the 1974, to started magazine, called the arkansas times more than the door. a bunch of 20, some things before we were the 1st people to have ever discovered arkansas. we were incredibly excited about the music, the history of the mythology, the beauty we wanted to discover arkansas or one to tell others about it. we want

to write about it. this was a great story, the arkansas written next. what was it? love, or fighter country boy was a sort of a love letter to read next the, the times is free. so we can't be here without advertising. and the state governments, a big source of our income, the schools, the colleges, the health center is the hospitals. all those agencies advertise because you sign a contract with the state to provide them advertising and they provide your money now in order to get our money, we have to pledge not to boycott israel. i mean, when we got our 1st notice, i didn't think anyone waiting for the or can we were able to to ignore it for a long time. and finally,

there was this purchasing guy with one of the colleges and he was just not going to let go. they said, i'm going to keep you from getting business from us until you sign this as required by the law. the, you know, when we 1st read about this law, we would, we did a story on it. so, looks this and people, most people i talked to the go. what does that have to do with the price of to you in china? i mean, you know, you have to take a, you know, it's just, it has no relevance or bearing on arkansas have the right, the boy con, anyone i want to, and the state has no business getting involved in that period. so their visits so we said no the

chair calls here. i'm always to state your name who you are present in the position on the bill. my name is virginia marie. i'm, i'm presenting myself and i'm against this bill happening today. a muslim group plans to issue a legal challenge to a texas law and it's all about israel. it was actually the 1st bill of the 85th legislature, governor gray guided sign into law, which says, israel is one of the texas largest reading partners to daycare or the council on american islamic relations. will announce a major 1st amendment legal challenge to the law. what you're really hoping to stay will do is completely repeal and repeal the any media stands, repeal anything that has to violate my

a my right to freedom of speech. my right to boycott and to choose a political view of my own palestinian american teacher in austin, texas has filed a federal lawsuit for losing her job as a speech pathologist, after refusing to sign a pro israel old and i sent an email to my son's coordinator i'm telling her, listen, i cannot sign this, this is against my principals against my constitutional rights and, and it's also, i guess, my moral and ethical values considering that i am a palestinian american and i have family to actually live in occupied territories or faxed me personally as well, so it affects me in both ways, as american citizen and as of how soon american to the how are you in and how is that? we have a snack 1st. she likes the passenger side for huh

. okay. i have a lot of family members are still reside in the occupied territory. news. i know what i've seen 1st and justice and equality that goes on there. it goes off me, roads only permitting its ways to drive on those roads. but basically, the idea is to make it as hard as possible for them to function and to have a livelihood anyhow, school closures resting young children the

and i could not, you know, stay quiet and just go on with my life. well, i know that this law is going to make it ok to continue this kind of oppression against the palestinians. the in recent years about 2 dozen states, republican and democrat has passed laws or executive orders to stymie the media movement, arizona, as long sale through the legislature with broad support that could make short all in a difficult situation. his parents lived in the west bank during the seventy's and ever since college he's advocated for palestinian rights. short all never expected . his views on the is really palestinian conflict to come up in his day job. after all, he gave his legal advice to inmates in arizona. the

was just opening my annual contract from the state of arizona. and i was rather shocked to see this the i had promised my son ever since is the bar mitzvah many years ago his mom is jewish, so i am not but i had promised him a trip to the middle east. and so as let some 12 years later, we finally went and we had an incredible trip there. i saw a lot of things that were very disturbing that we saw in terms of civil rights, civil liberties discrimination. my mom's parents are definitely more on the conservative side of things they would absolutely call themselves sinus. so it was

interesting being exposed to that loss of and easily having all of this exposure to the injustices that are happening in israel and palestine. the, i think after that trip for him, it was really clear that he wanted to boycott any companies that were contributing to the yes, this is happening in the west bank. i am boycotting hewlett packard because they are involved in the bio metrics for the check points. every palestinian has an id card that they must have the and they delay palestinians for many, many hours at a time. and so that's part and parcel of the occupation the after my a trip to the west bank and seeing what i've seen. i was incensed enough that i said i couldn't sign this and i had to file suit

i was committed to continuing on providing the services but not getting paid a substantial chunk of change for me. but that was i was just unwilling to sign that certification and i didn't want to leave the jail in the lurch either. so i wanted to provide the services, the decision to the state. that was not one that he made lightly. we definitely worried about people smearing his reputation, calling him in this and that he was very fearful that he was this. it took us by the head, the extremely proud of him and making the choice that you did the

i 1st during the sale you as an intern at the so you southern california. believe that within the summer of 2009 it was after my 1st year of law school. it was definitely something i was taking out since high school. i had been kind of obsessed with the sale. you to be honest. so this was at the beginning of the rack war, and i remember that there was this kind of rush to consensus that we shouldn't beta rack because saddam had weapons of mass destruction. and that anybody who spoke out against it was a terrorist supervisor or a communist or are fundamentally into american. and i remember that the still you campaign at that time was that the santas, patriotic. and that's something that really resonated with me. i

always like to tell people that we have the best clients in this case. i think that's absolutely true. all manner of people have been forced to sign these 84 ca certification forms. many of them are reluctant to throw themselves into the middle of a major public controversy. but we've got a few brave individuals to step forward and say, hey, this is the right thing to do. what i'm going to do it. that's the kind of moral courage that makes me so happy to work at these. all you have us. i just wanna check in briefly about the draw it all case and where we are in the briefing. that's gone through basically all the levels of approval and that it needs to go through and we're gonna get it out hopefully today. and what about the other cases? the arkansas one, i think it's going to be filed in the next couple days. and then the texas case, i hope all gets in the next week or 2 on on many fronts. one of the things that we hope to do with these cases is when a couple of them very quickly on the states that passed these kinds of laws to kind

of deter others from doing the same thing. if all the courts are unanimous that these laws are unconstitutional, then my guess is that these bills will just die. and i think the states, they don't want the public to really be aware of what's going on. they don't want to have an open debate about it. they recognize them and people actually understand what the state was doing here. they wouldn't be, i absolutely horrified and appalled that legislatures would be trading away americans 1st amendment right so easily. the problem today, where did that idea now? you know, i can't nail down exactly where it came from, but i'm really so much just talking with my colleagues reading and then a chance meeting with another legislator from another state helped me really start to, to, to wrap in what was important. i was at a hotel and there was an hour meeting going on. a coastal resort,

protected by our garden. this is in the state capital. it's a resort hotel where lawmakers are winding died as members of the american legislative exchange council or alec. this is a very, very important group across the country. we've been more than 1300 people here. our organization represents 25 percent of all state legislators in the country. look closely at many conservative was passed by state legislatures and you're likely to find the hand of alex. alex is the perfect petri dish for what ends up being a very, very destructive legislative scheme. in our country they bring together corporate leaders, evangelical leaders, and right wing legislators. they meet twice a year. behind closed doors. almost invariably, the laws they seek to pass and move out into the world, restrict the ability of people to be able to effectively operate in their democracy

from stand your ground self defense laws, district photo id laws, which critics say making harder for minorities and the poor to vote, the group says it's motto, bills are templates for as many as $200.00 state laws passed a year. they're thinking about creating what's called model legislation. i like bills come complete with blanks where legislators need only fill in their state. may you start out with one idea and i met test the sizes into something that c a radically to be applicable every place in the united states. it's pretty safe to say that there wouldn't be an type boy bills popping up in different states around the country. without out the so we have the tribune. obviously we have k, u t,

cbs and the office number 250 the high you made it easy as one of my days. the wind round rock speech pathologist, but here we filed suit against blue gerbil. i as the and the state of texas, she says she didn't do it for as railing or palestinian values, but for american values is our responsibility to fight,

to protect and preserve free speech for children. similar to exactly that, our founding fathers having fissions this law house bill 89, was nothing but a censorship long. meant to silence texans and punish them for expressing the practical view. texts and government should not be putting the interest of a foreign country over its own people. thank you. a speech pathologist and fuller real says the state is trying to silence her right to free speech. when this story, the here story started getting a lot of attention, the governor of texas simply tweeted out, texas stands with israel period. any anti israel policy? there's an anti texas part of the

the as far as i know, i'm the only speech pathologist as in the founding austin and then losing unimportant service that's not available otherwise. mm. i feel like i am putting down my community the

there's no boycott. activism at arkansas probably this law is about the only thing people the way people go about course we're just, we're not boycotting anyone. we're just saying you have no right to tell us what our speech should be. and if we what we think we want to boycott, we can, and oh, it's none of your business it's, it's of, it's a political act. and it's that one that i choose to take. i just object to government say, we've got a big a whole lot of money over here, but we're not able to give it to you will that will advertise with you. but here's, here's some, here's some conditions that you need to meet 1st, such as, here's the political position you need to take regarding foreign policy for god's sake and we're in arkansas. well, as i think alan's case demonstrates, you don't have to be participating in

a board kind of israel to find these. and t boycott was fundamentally on american. alan, i hate to ask you this, but let's say that the paper uh action is unsuccessful in cory. do you plan on signing that pledge or what does that mean for the future of your newspaper? should you lose? i haven't gone there yet to, but that that's something that will be a very, very difficult uh, very, very difficult decision for me. so we close this wednesday, march issued for about 51000 and we need to get to 65 is what we got. hang it out there. started the time. so $200.00. so i wanted to go through whoever, cuz last year we dodge so many bullets or with less 45 years and and the newspaper businesses got tougher and tougher. the accurate clinic

room for about $35.00 people here to the people whose families and mortgages the year for that state advertising. we can be on the the when we launched the lawsuit, i was very confident mean any country that bases it's found the mythology around the boston tea party and the boy todd of tea. you would think that today you, 100 years later, we would still see boy cods as a political, a former political speech and therefore protected by the 1st amendment. today i'm going to sign an executive order that says if you boy tide against israel,

knew your whole board tied you, we in america must stand strong with israel through 2nd. one of the highest duties of elected legislators is to defend our constitution. but here they're just giving away for our 1st amendment rights to a foreign country. the i have the right, the boy costs anyone i want to and the state has no business getting involved in that gods chosen and blessed us because we protect israel. i'm going to continue, do want to state level all that i can't support the 3 part series explodes, the implications of us and people who called lower the freedom of speech and 1st amendment rights. more about the issue, whatever i'm looking forward from i think talked to in quote on which is 0. what we

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