Does Biden support the anti-Israel boycott? - Washington Examiner

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Does Biden support the anti-Israel boycott? - Washington Examiner

In 1945, three years before Israel’s founding, the Arab League passed a boycott of Jewish businesses in Mandatory Palestine. It was a move that hearkened directly to German precedents of the decade before. In 1976, the U.S. Congress passed anti-boycott legislation that made American companies’ participation in such boycotts illegal, under threat of fines up to $1 million and imprisonment of up to 20 years. The legislation and joint efforts by th…