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ISRAEL’S parliament has voted to bar boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigners from entering the country, national media has reported.
The Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday night that the Knesset had approved legislation banning anyone “who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel that … has a reasonable possibility of leading to the imposition of a boycott.”
It also applies to those calling for boycotts of Israeli institutions in any “area under its control” — meaning illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
