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July 13, 2015

Will the State Department Try to Nullify the Anti-Boycott Law?

It claims the law conflates the West Bank with the remainder of Israel.

In response to the recent ratification of a U.S. trade law, the State Department expressed reservations about provisions of the law intended to discourage economic warfare against Israel. These reservations include concern over the law’s alleged “conflation” of the West Bank with the remainder of Israel. Eugene Kontorovich points out that not only does the law make no such conflation, but the State Department’s reservations bespeak a poor understanding of U.S. policy:

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