{"id":225141,"date":"2016-02-16T21:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=225141"},"modified":"2016-02-16T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:56:00","slug":"uk-advance-anti-bds-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-advance-anti-bds-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to advance anti-BDS legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK is reportedly planning to legally challenge any organization which supports a movement to boycott Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports say that Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock will announce the new proposed regulations this week during a trip to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in The Sunday Times, Hancock said such boycotts were divisive, potentially damaging to the UK\u2019s relationship with Israel and risked fueling anti-Semitism. The report stated that the regulations will allow Britain to act against organizations that impose boycotts and make it easier to take them to court.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulations follow a December 2014 decision by councilors in Leicester, one of Britain\u2019s largest local authorities, condemning Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza and voting to boycott goods from the settlements.<\/p>\n<p>Under the regulations, any organization which backs the campaign, dubbed Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS), would likely be taken to court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/15\/450440\/UK-to-advance-antiBDS-legislation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is reportedly planning to legally challenge any organization which supports a movement to boycott Israel. Reports say that Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock will announce the new proposed regulations this week during a trip to Israel. According to a report in The Sunday Times, Hancock said such boycotts were divisive, potentially damaging to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}