{"id":5564,"date":"2022-02-22T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2022-02-23T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:13:01","slug":"cair-welcomes-defeat-of-virginia-anti-boycott-bill-as-victory-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5564","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Welcomes Defeat of Virginia Anti-Boycott Bill as Victory for Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the defeat of Virginia\u2019s anti-boycott bill HB 1161, a measure that would have violated the First Amendment rights of state contractors and their employees by requiring them to sign contracts with a provision banning boycotts of Israel.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/press_releases\/cair-welcomes-defeat-of-virginia-anti-boycott-bill-as-victory-for-free-speech\/?ms=Dailynewsbrief&amp;emci=fe05f93a-1b94-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&amp;emdi=e16d8301-1f94-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&amp;ceid=94433\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the defeat of Virginia\u2019s anti-boycott bill HB 1161, a measure that would have violated the First Amendment rights of state contractors and their employees by requiring them to sign contracts with a provision banning boycotts of Israel.\u00a0Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}