Activist Post: US Business Owners Can Be Fined and Imprisoned for Supporting Israeli BoycottThe antiboycott laws, enforced by US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security under the Export Administration Act, discourage and even outlaw "furthering or supporting" the Israeli boycott.
The Bureau is charged with administering and enforcing the Antiboycott Laws under the Export Administration Act.
Those laws discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Moslem countries, including complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance with the boycott.
Compliance with such requests may be prohibited by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and may be reportable to the Bureau.
The penalties for taking part in the boycott range from fines of tens of thousands of dollars to multiple years in prison.
Noone can force a person or company to invest in or buy from or do business in Israel. Nothing in the provisions addressed in the laws addressed in the article change that. So, we shall continue to see individuals pressure companies to not invest in or buy from or do buisness in Israel and we shall continue to see companies listen to the calls of people of conscience.
The mistake here is in assuming that those individuals trying to pressure companies to boycott Israel are 'people of conscience'. Some may indeed be so, but the prevalence of lies told by the BDS supporters about Israel argues against that. As does the kind of 'Satanic' rhetoric coming from far too many of those supporters....