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British lawmaker preparing bill to ban BDS

"Today, there is no political party in the UK to support BDS, and this is becoming an increasingly fringe activity," MP Robert Jenrick says at online conference of Leadership  Dialogue Institute.

by  i24NEWS and ILH Staff
Published on  12-15-2021 08:22
Last modified: 12-15-2021 08:22
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Protesters hold a Palestinian flag and the initials of the anti-Israeli BDS movement in a rally in Berlin, Germany, June 4, 2018 | File photo: EPA

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A bill to ban the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in Britain will soon be presented to Parliament, MP Robert Jenrick said Tuesday.

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A member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party and former secretary of state for housing, Jenrick made the comments during the Leadership Dialogue Institute (LDI) 2021 online conference.

LDI is a "private diplomatic channel fostering closer cultural ties between Australia, the UK, and Israel."

During a conversation titled "Why Do So Many People Hate Jews?" Jenrick said, "I think we're beating BDS here. Today, there is no political party in the UK to support BDS, and this is becoming an increasingly fringe activity.

"What we want to do is pass legislation here, and I'm pretty confident it will be in the legislative program the spring of next year."

On its official website, the BDS movement, with its headquarters in Ramallah, says its goal is "to pressure Israel to comply with international law" through economic means.

Several countries and US states have banned the BDS movement, opting to divest from companies that engage in the practice.

"There's a question of how broad that law can be, obviously I want it to be as broad as possible, so there's next to no avenue that BDS could continue," Jenrick said.

In 2019, an official from the Conservative Party, Eric Pickles, told a conference in Jerusalem that the new law would ban public agencies from working with those who boycott Israel in any way.

This article was first published by i24NEWS.

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