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February 27, 2019

Why Israel Should Be Concerned by Boycott Legislation in Chile and Ireland

The immediate economic effects are insignificant, but the long-term implications are deeply disturbing.

In January, the lower house of the Irish parliament voted in favor of a measure, already approved by the Irish senate, to criminalize the purchase of goods or services from Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights. Two months prior, the lower house of the Chilean parliament voted, by a margin of 99 to 7, to call upon the government to reconsider trade deals with Israel so as to restrict commerce in lands acquired in 1967. Amir Prager writes:

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