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Criminalising boycotts will help unethical businesses thrive | Peter Frankental | Opinion | The Guardian
Sad day
Basically public departments are not allowed to refuse to buy services from a business on ethical grounds.
Most say this is about Isreal and it's genocide like actions against Palestine. So a local authority cannot say "we aren't buying goods or services off an Isreali company because of what is real us doing to Palestine.
It's a sad loss of freedom in choosing who to trade with which was used to influence south Africa to change its stance if apartheid way back
Sad day
Basically public departments are not allowed to refuse to buy services from a business on ethical grounds.
Most say this is about Isreal and it's genocide like actions against Palestine. So a local authority cannot say "we aren't buying goods or services off an Isreali company because of what is real us doing to Palestine.
It's a sad loss of freedom in choosing who to trade with which was used to influence south Africa to change its stance if apartheid way back