African strug-gle, it soon turned into a general boycott of Israel.  Many members of Knesset expressed their opposition to the bill, to a great extent for the same reasons expressed earlier in the meetings of the Constitution Committee. At the conclusion of the debate, the Bill was approved in a second and third reading by a majority of 47 in favor, 38 opposed, and no ab-stentions.

The essence of the boycott law does not punish individual boycotters. It punishes everyone who pub-licly calls for a boycott.   There are no prison terms, which would have turned opponents into martyrs. The law provides that any individual who feels that they have been hurt by the boycott call can sue the boycott-callers for unlimited damages, without having to prove any damage at all.  This way the initiat...

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