In the wake of a blacklist of companies released by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday, the Israeli-American Coalition for Action (IAC for Action) has strongly condemned the UN body, denouncing the list as “anti-Semitic in both intent and effect,” and have called upon public officials in the United States to prepare to enforce anti-BDS laws across 29 US states in response.
The long anticipated blacklist of 112 businesses, most of which are Israeli companies, singles out those which operate in Jewish areas over the pre-1967 lines, in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights.
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