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How One of the BDS Movement’s Alleged ‘Victories’ Became One of Its Worst Defeats
by Eugene Kontorovich
June 30, 2016

It turns out that one of the BDS movement’s biggest alleged successes is a colossal failure. Thanks to the new wave of state anti-boycott laws, it has emerged that far from boycotting Israel, the security giant G4S plans to continue doing business there indefinitely. Last year, Illinois became the first state to pass a law restricting investments in companies that boycott Israel. Since then, about 11 states have followed suit with laws limiting either pension investment, contracting, or both. But as the first state to legislate, Illinois was also the first to make a determination about what companies qualified as boycotting Israel as defined under the State’s law. G4S had been heavily harassed by the boycott movement; the huge British company was one of their main targets. READ MORE