NY State Bills Targeting Israel Boycotters 'Harken Back to McCarthy Era,' Legal Organizations Charge

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. And one bill explicitly says it's OK to boycott Venezuela

showing this is really McCarthyite.

The text of S6378A calls for punishing groups that boycott not just Israel, but all “American allied nations,” which it defines as Israel, Ireland, Japan, Korea, all members of NATO (this includes most of Europe and Turkey), countries that signed the Southeast Asia Treaty of 1954 and any country that is a signatory of the Rio Treaty of 1947 — excluding Venezuela, which it singles out. The bill would allow Americans to boycott Venezuela, whose democratically elected socialist government the U.S. helped overthrow in 2002.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/09/21st_century_mccarthyism_ny_bills_would_make_a_blacklist_of_those_boycotting_israel_over_human_rights_violations/