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The law of unintended consequences

July 12, 2011 19:00
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No one, it appears, has thought of the law of unintentional circumstances. The Charedim (ultra-Orthodox) are very quick to declare boycotts against supermarkets and other businesses they don't like. Perhaps these businesses will use the law against them.
Then there's the possibility that somebody might sue Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and the 300 other rabbis, many on govt payroll, who are behind an ongoing boycott by Jewish property owners against non-Jews (mainly Israeli Arabs, foreign workers and African refugees) who want to rent or buy from them?

Every cloud has a a silver lining...

And then there's Ben Caspit, in Maariv, a regular Israeli. He is, to coin a phrase, fair and balanced, and he wrote this about the Anti-Boycott (Apartheid) Act 2011.
And now the ADL (another craven organisation, perhaps?) is against it.

Knesset Anti-Boycott Law May Infringe On Basic Democratic Rights