Pat Leahy: Il governo si sta innervosendo per la controversa legge sui territori occupati
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/12/pat-leahy-battles-lines-have-been-drawn-on-the-occupied-territories-bill/
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Pat Leahy: Il governo si sta innervosendo per la controversa legge sui territori occupati
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/12/pat-leahy-battles-lines-have-been-drawn-on-the-occupied-territories-bill/
di badger-biscuits
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The adults will enter the room eventually, and it will be shelved. Student union politics is all well and good until it has serious consequences.
The US has a law and an office dedicated to coming after us if we pass the Occupied Territories Bill. Trump won’t even need a bullshit excuse to go after US multinationals based here; we’re going to hand him one on a silver platter.
> These authorities discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from taking certain actions in furtherance or support of a boycott maintained by a foreign country against a country friendly to the United States (unsanctioned foreign boycott).
> Prohibited activities include, inter alia, agreements by U.S. companies to refuse to do business with a boycotted country.
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac
If this bill had no potential impact there wouldn’t be shadowy, anti-democratic forces trying to get the government to renage on its responsibility.
Ireland was the first European state to boycott apartheid goods. Israel, as a close friend and ally of apartheid South Africa, knows this very well and what happened after.
We’ve made our point to the world on I/P, let’s not do anything that’ll put at risk our economic prosperity.