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Lawyers Vow to Fight Ireland's Discriminatory Anti-Israel Legislation
(Lawfare Project) The U.S.-based Lawfare Project, together with UK Lawyers for Israel, is responding to an aggressive boycott measure targeting Israel that passed the Irish Senate on Wednesday. The bill seeks to outlaw the supply of any goods or services produced even only partially by any Israeli when he is present, even temporarily, beyond the pre-1967 lines. When the bill was debated earlier this year, the Lawfare Project's Spanish counsel, Ignacio Palacios, filed a complaint, arguing that the Irish bill, if enacted, would violate foreign trade competences that belong exclusively to the EU. "The Irish bill would enact an official, highly aggressive anti-Israel boycott policy within a national government that targets individuals not based on their conduct, but on their national origin and place of residence," Palacios said. Lawfare Project executive director Brooke Goldstein said, "We are determined to expose the illegality of the Irish boycott bill under European law, as well as the unnecessary damage that it will inflict on U.S. companies operating in Ireland....We will do everything in our power to prevent this unprecedented, state-sanctioned discrimination from becoming law."