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Sorry, but this is a law to prevent US companies from joining foreign-origin boycotts and contradicting US foreign policy. Companies are freely allowed to boycott Israel or whatever country they want for whatever reason they want, and they do, and are unprosecutable under US law as a domestic boycott is not covered by this law.

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Thanks for the explanation...for a second-there I thought that it meant all boycotts were not allowed.

But let' say there was a domestic originated boycott against country X, why can't the governement just say that it is illegal since there is also a similar foreign-origin boycott for the same country X and for the same reasons ?

And in that case, it would seem the U.S. governement has too much power over its citizens and private entreprise.

What matters is not the intention of the law but how it's written. This page says what's prohibited is "actual refusal to do business with or in Israel." Do you have some other source to back up your claim? Because judging from this page it sounds like it's illegal to boycott Israel period.

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