Penn State Hosts Conference Promoting Campaign to ‘Boycott, Divest, and Sanction’ Israel

Penn State Hosts Conference Promoting Campaign to ‘Boycott, Divest, and Sanction’ Israel.(BigPeace).Penn State University is the home of the 2012 "National Conference of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement" (BDS), whose origins lie in the actions of nations and groups including Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. The three-day event will take place on the Penn State campus February 3-5 and feature a variety of speakers with antisemitic, extreme views, such as Ali Abunimah, who has stated, "none of the European and American leaders who constantly lecture about Holocaust denial will dare to admonish Netanyahu for his bald lies and omissions about Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians."Hmmmm.......The legal penalties of supporting the BDS action against Israel.The antiboycott laws were adopted to encourage, and in specified cases, require U.S. firms to refuse to participate in foreign boycotts that the United States does not sanction. The law prohibits U.S. persons from taking certain actions in support of an unsanctioned foreign boycott against a country that is friendly to the United States.Read the full story here.