Ministers approve a bill allowing Israeli companies to sue boycott activists for a maximum sum of NIS 100,000 without proof of damage.
The proposal by Likud MK Yoav Kisch — and backed by Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan — seeks to bypass a High Court of Justice ruling that disqualified portions of Israel’s anti-boycott law that sought punitive damages.
In the current revision, the companies are allowed to seek damages without citing evidence they were hurt financially by the boycott campaigns, in a move the authors of the bill likened to similar Israeli laws on copyrights. That distinction from punitive damages would satisfy the court’s demands for the law, as laid out in its ruling, the authors opined.
In a tweet, Erdan says he was “proud” the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the bill, giving it coalition support.
“After it is approved, the law will be an effective tool to fight boycott activists against Israel,” he says.
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