A bill squarely aimed at countering the effectiveness of the anti-Israel Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, or BDS, is introduced in the California legislature.
If adopted, the bill would forbid the California state government from contracting with companies “engaging in boycotts based on race, color, religion, gender or nationality.”
Republican Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach in Orange County, in introducing the bill, notes that “California strongly opposes discrimination. Of particular concern lately is the fact that boycotts of entities and individuals affiliated with specific countries can amount to ethnic, religious, racial and/or national origin discrimination.
“No group better demonstrates this fact than the BDS movement, whose use of false, demonizing and delegitimizing propaganda against the State of Israel has become a pretext for the expression of anti-Jewish bigotry,” Allen says.
— JTA
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