Slippery Slope

MK Uri Orbach (Jewish Home) has submitted a request to ammend the law on “forbidden discrimination in services, products, and entrance to public places and entertainment halls”. The ammendment would allow citizens to sue artists who refuse to appear in settlements for tens of thousands of shekels without proving damages.

(Hebrew)

Knesset Member Yariv Levin (Likud), chair of the Knesset Committee, has proposed a new law that would permit the Minister of the Interior to expel from Israel any foreign citizen who calls for the boycott of Israel of of anything produced in a settlement, and any person who calls for international trials for soldiers who will be involved in carrying out war crimes. Under the proposal, the Minister of the Interior will be able to bar such people from entering the country or expel them from Israel. (Hebrew)

Matan Cohen, a BDS movement activist, was detained by Israels Security Agency (GSS, Shabak) when returning to Israel. The GSS people who detained him searched his belongings and informed him that he is suspected of “hostile terrorist activity.” (English)