Knesset Advances Bill On Travel Ban for BDS Leaders

Anti-Israel demonstrators march behind a banner of the BDS organization in Marseille, June
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The Jerusalem Post reports: The Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee approved on Wednesday a bill that allows the Interior Ministry to ban people who call to boycott Israel from entering the country.

The legislation, pushed forward by MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) will be voted upon in second and third readings.

The bill was originally proposed by former Bayit Yehudi MK Yinon Magal, but Smotrich took it over when the former resigned from the Knesset in 2015 over sexual harassment allegations.

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