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Trump Admin Thwarts Irish Effort to Boycott Israel, Criminalize Trade
by Adam Kredo
February 5, 2018
The Trump administration played a key role in thwarting a recent effort by the Irish government to boycott Israel and make it a crime for Irish citizens to purchase products made in contested areas of the Jewish state, a move that would have severely jeopardized Ireland’s trade with the United States, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. The Irish Parliament was poised last week to pass a major piece of legislation that would make it crime to engage in trade with Israelis. READ MORE