Amy Goodman
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Meet the Texas Speech Pathologist Who Lost School Job for Refusing to Sign Pro-Israel, Anti-BDS Oath
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17:34Now PlayingA PalestinianAmerican speech pathologist in Austin, Texas, has filed a federal lawsuit for losing her job after refusing to sign a proIsrael oath. Bahia Amawi is an Arabicspeaking child language specialist who had worked for nine years in the Pflugerville Independent School District. But she lost her job last year after she declined to sign a pledge that she would “not boycott Israel during the term of the contract” and that she would not take any action that is “intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel.” We speak with Bahia Amawi and Gadeir Abbas, senior litigation attorney with the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations. He is representing Amawi in her lawsuit against the Pflugerville Independent School District and the state of Texas.
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