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February 29, 2016

The President’s Confused Defense of Anti-Israel Boycotts

A “hollow venting of pique.”

Upon signing a major foreign-trade bill into law last week, President Obama simultaneously issued a “signing” statement regarding provisions in the law intended to combat attempts to boycott Israeli enterprises in the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Eugene Kontorovich argues that the president’s statement amounts to little more than a “hollow . . . venting of pique” with few if any legal ramifications. Furthermore, he writes, even judged from a purely political perspective, it makes little sense:

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