Israeli High Court to hear petition against 'anti-boycott law'
http://972mag.com/israeli-high-court-to-hear-petition-against-anti-boycott-law/87239/
An expanded panel of nine justices of the Israeli High Court of Justice will hear a petition against the “anti-boycott law” Sunday morning, which several NGOs are arguing silences debate on one of the most important and divisive issues in Israeli society.
Passed by the Knesset in 2011, the law, formally known as the “Law for Prevention of Damage to State of Israel through Boycott,” allows those who feel they have been harmed by a boycott – whether against Israel or an Israeli institution or territory (i.e. the settlements in the West Bank) – to sue the person or organization who publicly called for it.
If a person calls for a boycott of academic institutions that participate in the occupation, she/he could be sued in civil court and ordered to pay compensation. Moreover, if an NGO joins the global BDS (boycotts, divestments, sanctions) call, it could be stripped of its non-profit status, and compelled to pay taxes as if it were a commercial operation.
The apartheid picnic never slows. It just continues to trample those that stand up against it and speak truth to power.
All repressive regimes sooner or later hit a wall built out of their own making.
BDS.