about Arutz Sheva. Right wingers spread the big lie that they are the majority. The government is not even really right wing, as they are supported by draft-dodging, rock-throwing, non-Zionist, self-serving haredim. If you want to boycott, don't read Ynet and don't write talkbacks.

Thats right! Both the US and France have very similar anti boycott laws. In addition France has an anti Buka law and an anti religious symbols law as apparel. Does this make those countries undemocratic>

..so is it too not a democracy?

democracy today means something completely different than at times of ancient Athens. It means in between freedom of speech. I understand the special situation if someone wanted to boycott Israel entirely. This is enemy activity. But West Bank issue is different. I understand that West Bank is not a binary issue but it IS a fact that it lies outside the internationally recognized border of Israel AND Israel herself sees it as not under her sovereignty. It IS a fact that no country in the world recognizes Israeli sovereignty over West Bank and it also IS a fact that the International Court issued a legal opinion (yes not binding but still) that the massiveness of settlements is illegal. In such a case those who chose to boycott West Bank (although myself I would never do it!), should be allowed to such type of protest as, again West Bank is not a sovereign part of Israel. Moreover, this only showed Israel in worse light, jeopardized the degree of democracy and you can already see public declarations of disobedience: another lost game in media war. It is counterproductive!

inadvertently opened up Haaretz or The Guardian?!?! what is this cr*p on here.... other countries have exactly the same law and stronger., including the US and most of Europe.........STOP unfairly demonizing your own.......shameful and woefully inaccurate article

with what happened some 70-80 years ago : Kauft nicht bei juden . Don't buy in Jewish shops . Why should "boycotters" have the right to boycott , and we not have the same right to boycott them ?

and go to your place : a church .

with what happened some 70-80 years ago : kauft nicht bei juden . Don't buy at Jewish shops . Why should the "boycotters" have the right to boycott us , but we not to boycott them ?

The fascist Left is on the run!

A democracy is not defined by a bill that one agrees with or not and "immoral" is a relative term. Can YNET not get mature writers? This Op Ed is a child's view of politics

Makes for nice, catchy rhetoric but it doesn't make an sense. If you need to embellish your point with strange comments such as those what does it say about the substance of your position...?

the law. Obviously she has not read it as she spews crap. She and that horse faced Lady Aston of EU would enjoy a good cup of tea together. Not too many cups though as they both sound besotted

http://www.acri.org.il/en/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Comparative-US-Israel-boycott-ENG.pdf

Disgrace from the big mouth and loose lips of Bibi Netanyahu. Hypocrisy too. Here is a man who comes to the Knesset to defend his shallow shattered worthless reputation, but was absent from the Knesset for the debate of the Boycott Bill he says he approved. What kind of statesman is he? As for the Bill itself, I call on all Israelis who oppose the occupation to speak out and boycott all settlement produce. Do not legitimise the illegitimate by the back door. Do not drink the wines of the West Bank. Do not buy fruit and vegetables from the West Bank. Check the labels of all consumables you purchase and if the item is from a West Bank settlement put it back. By law these items must be labelled as produced in the West Bank and if there's no label query it's origins. Not acting now means tomorrow the neo-nationalists, the settlers and their religious supporters will no longer devour the cabinet, they will control the country. Don't be fooled by their panic and paranoia mongering anymore. Stand up for Israel before it is occupied.

We lost our democracy when the lefy bombed the Antealina. We lost our democracy when the left forced the secularization of 100s of thousands of Sephardim. We lost our democracy when the left criminalized Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount We lost our democracy when Yitzchack Rabin (OBM) sent police to beat up masses of peaceful protestors of Zu Artzeni who protested Aslo Accords. We lost our democracy when the Supreme Court began to tell Haredim how to educate their children. Sorry our "democracy" has been long dead

you, as always, thikn only about media..... not about Israel.... read this: The legislation’s official title is “Law for preventing harm to the State of Israel via boycotts.” Its second clause, for example, refers to those who “knowingly issue a public call for boycotting the State of Israel.” What’s anti-democratic about this phrasing? Isn’t it time for Israel to adopt minimal defensive measures against the dark forces that scheme to defeat it via economic means, after losing hope of doing so through other means? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4095084,00.html we have enough of our israeli leftists.... we don't need european leftist here....

Nechama First law was approved democratically. Do you care for your brothers and sisters who are in Yeshudah and Shomron because Adonai says so in the Torah. Anybody who is against Adonai, against Torah and against Am Yisrael does not deserve to live in the Holy Lans,

Worried that his sons would go to jail for corruption, Sharon violated his mandate, bribed Likud ministers and broke laws to violently ethnically cleanse Gush Katif despite clear opposition by his voters. Duek supported Sharon for this "moral" and "democratic" behavior.

"This is NOT the same as the one in the US". No, you're right, it's an Israeli one. It proves that Israel can think for itself. This law is about the 'rules & 'regulations of Democracy! It's about 'turning the tables and boycotting the boycotters. DEMOCRACY works both ways, a given the Left & friends have a hard time to come to terms with.

Well, let me understand this, IF I'm a Leftist and I call for a boycott of a certain section or people/persons of Israel, and it causes them economic damge, then that's democracy. If these people pass a Law saying that those that cause this damage are responsible for it, that's naziism!!! Seems like "democracy" is for just one side of the people, for Leftists!!! Being a "democracy" means that every in free as long as it does not cause harm or damage to another person!!! No one is free to scream "FIRE" in a crowded theater, causing a stampede and death as people trample each other to get out of there. Bottom line is, you cause loss for someone else, you ought to be held liable for it. THAT'S Democracy for ALL!!!

why start off from a position of defeated. hashem is giving us a lesson . we know what the arabs want to do with us . LETS WAKE UP -STRENTH -AM YISRAEL CHAI

There is a price for freedom and freedom is not obsolute. If it was then I should have the freedom to smoke pot, not buckle up, gamble, etc. I surely do not have the freedom to cause damage to my country. Duek's freedom to boycott was not taken away, the law just gives the affected party the right to sue her in court for damages. Besides if boycotts are undemocratic then what is wrong with an anti-boycott law.

and not just for Israeli leftists, but the average Israeli citizen in general. By supporting this unconstitutional law he is spitting on the whole idea of demoracy and laughing at the same time: because he can get away with it. And that is the source of his contempt: the average Israeli citizen is either too apathetic or too weak to stop him.

with their own arms . Boycotts with boycotts . You think that this law is "undemocratic and immoral" ? Is boycotting Israel "democratic and moral" for you ? We have experienced how combatting antidemocrats with democratic arms ends : remember Germany in 1933 !

U.S. Congress passed OBAMACARE, without bothering to read it & that only involves mere TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS and will change American Health Care for the worse, it will wind up like being like in Israel, standing in lines & waiting, waiting There's a big balagon in the USA now, about the debt crisis, Obama wants a blank check, while the USA is plain broke and out of money, owing many trillions to other countries

Will we ever have enough of this self defeatest attitude. We all know what our arab brothers w*nt to do and will do once they achieve with our help their goals. Are we nuts. -- no more self defeatist attitude