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The BDS Campaign: Anti-Jew Leftists Breaking Federal Anti-Boycott Law
Big League Politics ^ | January 18, 2019 | Jonathon A Moseley

Posted on 01/19/2019 10:38:49 AM PST by Moseley

Anti-Semites are violating federal law by boycotting Israel and Israeli companies and institutions. Activists in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, one of the highest-profile global projects of the left, are subject to criminal and financial penalties, including jail time of five years and fines up to $50,000. A U.S. exporter can lose the right to export any products to any country.

So why isn’t the U.S. Department of Justice enforcing the anti-boycott laws? President Donald Trump should order the Office of Antiboycott Compliance to come out of cryogenic stasis and get back to work, and order DOJ to start enforcing the law.

This month, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced legislation as an amendment to SB 1 to blunt the economic warfare against Israel – “Democrats are split over the addition of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s ‘Combatting BDS Act,’ which seeks to counter the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel over its treatment of Palestinians and the settlements.”

Rubio’s Combatting BDS Act, would affirm the legal authority of state and local governments to restrict contracts and take other actions against contractors that “engaged in BDS conduct.” Several states are facing lawsuits after taking action against contractors who are conducting BDS boycotts of Israel. Enemies of Israel are trying to say the BDS movement is “free speech.” Democrats are blocking Rubio’s bill.

While Rubio’s bill would give more teeth to laws protecting Israel and will clarify some important details of the laws, most people don’t know that there are already laws criminalizing much of the BDS movement. Supporters of Israel and democracy in the Middle East need to re-discover the Anti-Boycott Act.

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To: Moseley
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21 posted on 01/19/2019 7:55:51 PM PST by Moseley (http://www.MoseleyComments.com)
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To: sockmonkey

“Has the US enacted such “special protections” to any Country other than Israel?”

The law is presented as combatting international boycotts led by foreign powers whose purpose and effect is to severely disrupt U.S. foreign policy.

So in theory the Anti-Boycott Act is NOT just limited to Israel, but to any organized, coercisive international boycott led by a foreign power which is disruptive to U.S. foreign power.

But I don’t think it has ever been used other than for the anti-Israel boycott by the Arab League.


22 posted on 01/19/2019 7:59:15 PM PST by Moseley (http://www.MoseleyComments.com)
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To: Bob434

In fact, one of the hallmark features of the Arab League boycott was that every participant was required to demand that any potential business partner, supplier, vendor, etc., CERTIFY that it was also participating in the anti-Israel boycott.

So every participant in the boycott — whether countries or businesses — was sending inquiry letters or forms to countries not participating and demanding that they certify they would participate in the boycott.

One would not only agree to boycott Israel, but to boycott any other company not boycotting Israel.

But that was also how the Anti-Boycott Act weakened it.

The Anti-Boycott Act ordered any company receiving such an inquiry to immediately report it to the Office of Anti-Boycott compliance.

It is against the law to receive an inquiry and FAIL to report the inquiry.

This turned the thing on its head.

Any inquiry about participating in the boycott of Israel became a violation if not reported immediately.


23 posted on 01/19/2019 8:08:28 PM PST by Moseley (http://www.MoseleyComments.com)
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