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20 Bus. L. Int'l 269 (2019)
The Application of US Anti-Boycott Laws: From the Arab League to Ireland

handle is hein.journals/blawintnl20 and id is 281 raw text is: The Application of US Anti- Boycott Laws: From the Arab League to Ireland Richard L Shamos* Introduction On 24 January 2019, the lower house of the Irish parliament, the Ddil Eireann, passed the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill (the 'Irish Boycott Act'),' which prohibits Irish residents and companies from purchasing or selling goods and services from or to certain territories in Israel.2 The Irish Boycott Act was previously approved by the upper house of the Irish parliament, the Senead Eireann, inJuly 2018, and is currently awaiting advancement to the final stages of reconciliation and approval. If ultimately signed into law, the Irish Boycott Act would make Ireland the first country outside the Arab League officially to promote a boycott of Israeli goods and services. This legislative development comes at a time when most Arab League countries have abandoned boycotts of Israel in whole or in part,3 and amid deepening economic ties between Ireland, the United States and the European Union in the wake of the * Richard Shamos is counsel in the financial services practice at Sadis & Goldberg in New York. 1 Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, Oireachtas Eireann www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2018/6 accessed 24July 2019. 2 Ibid ss 3-9. See also Martin Weiss, 'Arab League Boycott of Israel', Congressional Research Service, 25 August 2017. Certain territory in Israel remains under international disputes, which are beyond the scope of this article, and so for the purposes of this discussion should be understood as territory under Israeli control. 3 See n 2 above. 'One official commented to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that boycotting Israel is something that we talk about and include in our official documents but it is not something that we actually carry out - at least not in most Arab States.'

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