Citing the 2015 Illinois anti-boycott law (SB 1761), this non-binding city council resolution urges the Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago to divest from foreign companies that engage in boycotts of Israel. The resolution falsely links boycotts for Palestinian rights with growing antisemitism.
This anti-boycott bill prohibits Bal Harbour from contracting with businesses unless they provide a written certification that they are not and will not engage in a boycott of persons or entities based in or doing business with a jurisdiction with which the United States enjoys open trade. Because contract prohibitions only apply to boycotts undertaken on a discriminatory basis, they would not apply to boycotts for Palestinian rights. The bill passed unanimously.
This antisemitism redefinition bill requires Bal Harbour police to consider a distorted definition of antisemitism in hate crimes investigations. Under this definition, police could use criticism of Israel and advocacy for Palestinian rights as evidence of a hate crime.
This non-binding resolution condemns AirBnB’s decision to delist certain rental properties located in illegal Israeli settlements. AirBnB reversed its delisting decision in April 2019.
This New Castle County Council anti-boycott bill requires the county pension board to establish a [blacklist] of companies engaged in boycotts of Israel or of companies based in Israel or its occupied territories. The board is required to divest its holdings from blacklisted companies.
This non-binding resolution expresses the city council’s opposition to student activist efforts calling on candidates for undergraduate student government at UCLA to sign a pledge to not take trips to Israel that are sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The resolutions claims that students who refused to sign the pledge were the subject of bullying tactics and intimidation. It states that these efforts do “not concern a policy issue relevant to the University” and calls on the University of California (UC) Board of Regents and President of the UC system to take additional action to stop such efforts.
This non-binding resolution offers the city council’s support for state legislation, AB 2844. The bill, titled at the time of this resolution, the California Combating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel Act of 2016, was rewritten several times and whittled down following pressure from grassroots activists and after civil rights groups raised concerns that it unconstitutionally punished political speech.
This non-binding resolution offers the city council’s support for any administrative action that would ban or cancel the National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference from being held on UCLA’s campus. The resolution cites the IHRA’s distorted definition of antisemitism and falsely accuses NSJP of violence in support of its call for censorship. The NSJP Conference went forward as planned.
This anti-boycott bill prohibits state contracts with entities that adopt and apply boycotts in a discriminatory manner. The bill amends Massachusetts’ debarment law in order to penalize contractors that adopt “policies against any sovereign nation or peoples recognized by the government of the United States which are used to discriminate in violation of any state or federal law prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations or employment.” Debarred companies are prohibited from contracting with the state for a prescribed period of time. Boycotts for Palestinian rights based on an entity’s complicity in Israel’s violations do not discriminate against a protected class and thus fall outside the scope of the bill. However, the lawmakers who put forward these bills have stated their intent to exclude individuals and companies engaged in boycotts for Palestinian rights from state contracts.
This anti-boycott defunding bill prohibits state institutions of higher education from using state aid to fund or provide funds for membership in or travel to meetings of academic entities that engage in boycotts of countries that host New York state colleges, a short list that includes Israel. Schools that violate the prohibition are not eligible to receive state funds during the academic year in which the violation occurred. The bill provides exceptions for boycotts of countries determined by the United States to be state sponsors of terrorism, boycotts connected with labor disputes, or boycotts protesting unlawful discriminatory practices as determined by New York law. Related bill: S 2715.
