BDS Activists Now Banned From Israel

Yoni Ariel : Mar 7, 2017
Breaking Israel News

"The days of turning the other cheek are over, and Israel will act to neutralize the threat posed by this new age anti-Semitism." -Bezalel Smotrich

(Israel)—[Breaking Israel News] On Monday night the Knesset passed a law empowering the Interior Ministry to ban known Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists from entering the country. The law does not apply to Israelis active in BDS. The law passed its third and final reading by 46-28. (Photo: BDS activists/Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Shutterstock/via BIN)

This law is one of several steps the government has taken since establishing an anti-BDS task force two years ago. Other steps include lobbying foreign governments to curtail BDS activities when they cross the line from anti-settlement to anti-Semitism.

BDS is a loosely organized coalition of dozens of pro-Palestinian activist groups. It is active on many US and other Western college campuses.

BDS claims to be anti-settlement, and promotes efforts to boycott produce from what they define as "illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank."

In reality, many of the groups operating under the BDS banner have morphed from...

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