The Knesset voted for a bill to provide civil penalties for anyone calling for boycott on Israel and settlements.
Knesset legal adviser: Legislation may fail High Court test.
The “Boycott Bill” was approved in its final reading in the Knesset on Monday night, after a plenum discussion that lasted nearly six hours and uncertainty throughout the day as to whether a vote would take place.
The bill passed with 47 in favor and 38 opposed, despite the fact that most Shas lawmakers were absent because of MK Nissim Ze’ev’s daughter’s wedding.
In addition, many cabinet members – including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – did not attend the vote and the Independence faction chose not to participate.
Netanyahu’s spokesman would not comment on why the prime minister did not vote.
Source: Jerusalem Post
My comment:
This latest bill from the Knesset, display the serious situation within Israel. Any nation who makes it unlawful to call for boycotts, bids to take away a basic human right. The right to protest against governments.
Because of the merger of Islamic and International pressure, Israel is on its way into a chaotic state of affairs.
That the Orthodox Jews even skip the national assembly in favor of a wedding, display to what level the neglect has fallen.
It is sad that the state of Israel tries to take way the public’s right to protest. To call for a boycott is everyone’s human right. It is also a human right to call for support, and to buy the double of the products the protestors was supposed to buy.
I guess the boycotter’s of Israel would not have purchased any Israeli products in the first place.
Luke 21:23
How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
Written by Ivar
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