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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Knesset  Member Yariv Levin, of the right-wing Likud party, together with the  pro-settlement group The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, are  currently working on an “anti-subversive” bill aimed at anarchists and  supporters of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions  (BDS).</span></span></p>
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<p></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">If  approved the law would allow Israel’s Interior Ministry to bar  international activists from entering Israel. The law would apply  restrictions to anyone who acts against Israel, denies the Holocaust,  works to boycott Israel and/or attempts to place Israeli leaders on  international trial for what they did in the line of duty, reported <em>Arutz Sheva</em>.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“The  suggested legislation would apply to anyone who incites against the  country, carries out verbal or physical attacks, organizes hostile  activities or tries to interfere with foreign diplomatic and trade  relations,” the news daily reported.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“The  aim of the bill is to give the country the tools to deal with hostile  elements that work against Israel from within the country and who  endanger the security of Israeli citizens as well as foreign trade and  diplomatic ties,” explained MK Levin.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“Many  people why call themselves call themselves ‘peace activists’, along  with all other Israel-haters who often are called ‘human rights  activists,’ often act against the rights of Israeli citizens and are  free to travel in the country without any restrictions,&#8221; added Nochi  Eyal, director of the Legal Forum.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is not the first anti-freedom of speech bill aimed at those critical of Israeli policies.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In  summer 2010 the Knesset began hearings on a “Boycott Bill” that was  meant to discourage participation, particularly by Israelis, in boycotts  of Israel.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Under  the new law, any group could sue for damages of up to NIS 30,000 from  anyone who launched a boycott against them, or incited for boycott,  without having to prove that damage was indeed caused, according to the  Israeli news daily <em>Haaretz</em>. An additional sum could then be demanded once damages were proven.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The proposal has yet to move past the initial hearing phase.</span></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/news/3154-bill-being-drafted-to-bar-international-peace-activists-from-entering-israel-">Bill being Drafted to Bar International Peace Activists from Entering Israel</a>.</p>
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