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Arkansas Times|Updated Jan 5, 2019

Earlier this year, letters from the state of Arkansas began drifting across my desk, demanding that our weekly newspaper, the Arkansas Times, either sign a pledge not to boycott Israel or forfeit all state advertising. The letters were the result of an obscure, cookie-cutter law passed in 2017 by our Republican-controlled Legislature. Specifically, it requires any company entering into a contract with a public entity to certify that it “is not currently engaged in, and agrees for the duration of the contract not to engage i...