{"id":16500,"date":"2011-07-04T10:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/?p=16500"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:46:45","slug":"stop-the-boycott-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/stop-the-boycott-law","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Boycott Law!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Right wing political members of Knesset are pushing through the parliament a bill banning anyone from boycotting products made in the settlements for ideological reasons.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Peace Now opposes strongly this law and is raising the issue in the public eye \u2013it is important to understand that this struggle is not against the settlers.<br \/>\nIt is a struggle against the continuing wave of anti &#8211; democratic legislation, whose purpose is to limit the very right of legitimate public nonviolent protests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is ironic that when Israel is being swept up by a consumer boycott of food products (cottage cheese) which is welcomed as a positive civil action, while at the same time the MK&#8217;s are using the Knesset to ban such boycotts &#8211; but only when based on left-wing ideology!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It doesn\u2019t matter if you agree with a boycott or not, Israeli citizens <strong>must have the democratic right to boycott what they want<\/strong> \u2013 and not live in fear of the legal authorities should they organize a protest based on their ideology.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is not a matter of right and left, but a struggle against this shameful law and lawmakers ransacking our democracy of content!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16473\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/boycott-330x487.jpg\" alt=\"boycott\" width=\"330\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/boycott-330x487.jpg 330w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/boycott-109x161.jpg 109w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/boycott.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Peace Now&#8217;s latest poster\/ad against the latest boycott law reads:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott on Cottage \u2013 Permitted<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott on Turkey \u2013 Permitted<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott of Meat \u2013 Permitted<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott of Fur \u2013 Permitted<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott of Polluting Companies \u2013 Permitted<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott on Products Tested on Animals \u2013 Permitted<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boycott on Settlement Products \u2013 Forbidden???<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Right is Silencing You! Join the Battle Against the Boycott Law \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PeaceNowIsrael\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right wing political members of Knesset are pushing through the parliament a bill banning anyone from boycotting products made in the settlements for ideological reasons. Peace Now opposes strongly this law and is raising the issue in the public eye \u2013it is important to understand that this struggle is not against the settlers. It is&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/stop-the-boycott-law\" title=\"Read Stop the Boycott Law!\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[2321,2536],"class_list":["post-16500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","category-settlement-watch","tag-knesset","tag-settlements-products"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16503,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500\/revisions\/16503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}