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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.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory
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