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Title should be: To obtain Private Harvey relief funds, Applicant has to agree not to boycott Israel.

Private Contract, but in fact almost unenforceable.

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It does not seem inappropriate to me to have a clause from a private donation, to the effect, that you will not use these funds against me.

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Dickinson Harvey Relief Fund is, I believe, a private organization, but the Israel non-boycott clause kicks in because the money being distributed through the state, and in accordance with state law those contracting with the state of Texas can't boycott Israel, not by condition set by the charity itself. So far as I know, anyway.

Can you theoretically be denied a building permit, an LTC, a license plate, under the same statute? It seems to me that this particular case illustrates that the law meant to prevent agencies from doing business with entities that boycott Israel is being applied in such a way that wasn't necessarily intended.