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Arkansas publisher holds out against own state as US Senate advances anti-BDS bill
[AlAhram] A US federal court in Arkansas has ruled in favour of criminalising the boycott of Israel while the Senate is voting to advance a federal anti-BDS bill.Throughout 2018 the desk of Alan Leveritt, publisher of the US weekly newspaper the Arkansas Times, was piling up with letters from the state of Arkansas with an unusual demand: either sign a pledge not to boycott Israel or forfeit all state advertising. It was the outcome of a state law (act 710 of 2017) passed in 2017 by Arkansas’s Republican-dominated legislature that requires government contractors to pledge in writing not to boycott Israel or see their fees reduced by at least 20 per cent. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-01 |
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