The British government confirmed on Thursday it will proceed with banning local councils from boycotting Israel, as the Conservatives promised in their election manifesto, the Jewish Chronicle reports.
"One innovation this speech introduces is we will stop public bodies from taking it upon themselves to boycott goods from other countries to develop their own pseudo-foreign policy against a country which with nauseating frequency turns out to be Israel," Prime Minister Boris Johnson was quoted as having said during the debate on the post-election Queen's Speech.
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