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This anti-boycott bill prohibits state investment in and state contracts with any person, including individuals, corporations, and nonprofits, that boycott allied nations, including Israel and the territories it occupies. The bill requires the state to create a blacklist of persons engaged in prohibited boycotts. The state comptroller and public retirement funds are prohibited from investing in blacklisted entities. State agencies may not enter into contracts with blacklisted companies. Contractors must provide written certification that they are not on the blacklist and have not engaged in prohibited boycotts.

This non-binding city council resolution condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and “all efforts that seek to delegitimize the State of Israel.” 

This anti-boycott local law prohibits Nassau County from contracting with individuals and businesses that engage in BDS or politically motivated boycotts. The preambular language falsely links boycotts for Palestinian rights with antisemitism. 

This Town Board anti-boycott measure prohibits North Hempstead from contracting with “an individual or company identified by the New York State Office of General Services or the Office of the New York State Comptroller as engaging in a boycott of Israel.” New York’s governor signed an anti-boycott executive order (EO 157) in 2016 that called for the creation of this blacklist of entities that engage in political boycotts of Israel following the failure of several legislative efforts targeting boycotts for Palestinian rights at the state level.

This anti-boycott measure prohibits Rockland County from contracting with entities engaged in boycotts for Palestinian rights. It requires contractors to provide a written certification that they do not engage in BDS activities. Violations are subject to penalties, including debarment from future contracts for up to three years. Resolution 195 rescinds and replaces the identical Resolution 137.

This non-binding resolution  from the Westchester County Board of Legislators condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and “loudly and forcefully rejects any movement that seeks to undermine Israel and malign the Jewish people.” In doing so, it falsely links boycotts for Palestinian rights with antisemitism.  

This non-binding resolution condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel.

This non-binding resolution condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel.

This non-binding resolution expresses the Township Committee’s support for New Jersey’s anti-boycott law (S 1923) and all efforts to combat the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

Citing the 2015 Illinois anti-boycott law (SB 1761), this non-binding resolution from the Cook County Board of Commissioners urges the County Employees’ and Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Cook County and the Forest Preserve District Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Cook County to divest from foreign companies that engage in boycotts for Palestinian rights.