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I don't think the U.S. government has the right to force a company to operate in another country.


However they do have the power to end a boycott, either directly or indirectly (see the laws passed by various states regarding refusing to do business with Israel).


The ones that criminalize participating in a boycott? A fourth grader can identity those as flatly unconstitutional.



Yeah the immediately following "public opinion" section is particularly interesting. really makes u think.


I do wonder how Pew got such drastically different results from every other poll.


Just in a quick glance at the source it seems like simply poor or misleading phrasing on wikipedia. Looks like the poll wasn't "support/oppose" with 95% oppose but it was more like "do you support" with 5% yes.


There's already a government office for exactly that: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac

However, it does not apply in this case because the U.S. does not recognize Palestine as a country, and if that changes, it seems unlikely that it would be a country friendly to the United States.


Nor do legislators have the right to pursue US foreign policy. That's the executive's job




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