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Social networking amid tumult: Israel's lawmakers vote to punish boycotters by Karl Vick | @Karl_Vick | 12 July, 2011 | + Tweet

Israeli left-oriented activists hold signs when they demonstrated against the proposed boycott law in front of the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 10, 2011. (Photo: Sebastian Scheiner - AP)

Israel's parliament late Monday made it illegal to call for a boycott of the state or its settlements on the West Bank. The measure, passed by the Knesset with 47 votes in favor and 38 against, had the support of the right-oriented coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who nonetheless did not show up for the vote. Reports in the Hebrew press said Netanyahu told associates the measure went "one step too far," but offered no explanation as to why he allowed the measure to proceed regardless. Other top ministers, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, also missed the late vote.

The measure was decried as a blow to free speech and thus to Israeli democracy. "The boycott law will lead to unprecedented damage to freedom of expression in Israel and will bring justified criticism of Israel from abroad," said Hagai El-Ad, director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. "We will all end up paying the price for this brutal law."

In fact, the Knesset’s legal adviser warned before the vote that the measure would likely not survive a high court challenge. But lawmakers pressed on, angered by statements last year from actors that they would not perform in Ariel, a settlement on the West Bank, and by calls from some academics to boycott conferences at the university there.

Outside Israel, supporters of boycotts and divestments say their movement aims to copy the success of isolating apartheid activists in South Africa in the 1980s. There is a cultural component: Last year Elvis Costello and The Pixies both canceled shows, sparking debate over whether this constitutes "cultural terrorism" and leading Israeli media to frame each concert by a prominent international artist (Bob Dylan recently played) as a political victory.

Most activists, however, target the settlements, urging people to refuse to buy products such as bagels and wine produced by companies that have set up factories on land Israel controls on the West Bank.

Palestinian leaders said Monday's vote formalizes Israel's plans to keep land, despite its declared willingness to dismantle most of more than 120 settlements in any final deal to end the 44-year military occupation and establish a Palestinian state.

But in Israel, the concern the morning after was that the law would harm the national image it was meant to protect. Wise heads said it was harder suddenly for Israel to boast of being the Middle East's showcase democracy.

"This law will serve as a weapon in the hands of those who claim that Israel is not a democracy and does not respect human rights," Amnon Rubinstein, a legal expert and winner of the prestigious Israel Prize, wrote in the daily Ma'ariv.

"It will also increase Israel's isolation in the academic world and among Western liberal democracies. Paradoxically, this law increases the risk of anti-Israel boycotts. It is the exact opposite of what Israel needs at this moment."

Commented Ben Caspit on the same pages:

"There is no reason why Haredim [ultra-orthodox] should be able to boycott stores that sell pork (or are open on the Sabbath), or masses of Israelis can boycott dairy producers and marketing people, but vineyard owners cannot boycott products from the settlements, which they view as a cancerous growth in the body of the state."

It shouldn't take too long to know if the law survives a court challenge. By Tuesday morning, activists were already testing it, setting up Facebook groups that call for boycotts of goods and settlements, circulating an online "pledge or civil disobedience."