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Anti-boycott
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Since 2015, dozens of states have passed laws intending to silence boycotts of Israel. These anti-boycott bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints. In recent years, legislators have started using these laws as templates for a wider attack on Americans' ability to use boycotts as a means for social and political change — introducing bills that target boycotts of the fossil fuel and firearms industries, boycotts of companies that fail to offer reproductive health care or gender-affirming care, and boycotts of companies that fail to meet workplace diversity and equity criteria.


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North Carolina

  • Summary

    North Carolina's 2017 law requires the state to draft a blacklist of companies and organizations that boycott Israel and Israeli-controlled territories. The law requires the state to divest from blacklisted entities and prohibits it from making future investments in those entities. The law also prohibits the state from entering into contracts over $1,000 with blacklisted companies.

North Carolina

  • Summary

    North Carolina's bill would require the state to create a blacklist of companies that boycott any energy company, ordering the state's Board of Investment to divest from blacklisted entities and refuse investment in them. The law would also prohibit the state from entering into a contract with a blacklisted company.