A TIMELY new film is sounding the alarm about “authoritarian” attacks on the right to boycott, as the government seeks to quietly introduce anti-BDS laws in Britain. 

Last month, MPs passed an amendment to the Public Service Pensions Bill to prohibit public bodies from engaging in boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns. 

Award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha, whose new documentary film Boycott details the impact of anti-BDS laws in the United States on freedom of expression, has warned moves to replicate similar legislation in Britain would have “tremendously harmful consequences.”