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Anti-BDS Laws
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Dataset by Lara Friedman for the Foundation for Middle East Peace
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fmep.org
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Since 2014, parties seeking to block the use of boycotts as a tool to protest Israel for its treatment of Palestinians, and/or to protest against Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), have been promoting legislation both in state legislatures and in Congress demonizing and delegitimizing such boycotts, as well as imposing legal consequences on those who engage in such boycotts. They have done so, with enormous success, notwithsanding the fact that said boycotts represent the personal, principled decisions of individuals exercising their 1st Amendment-protected right to protest. In most cases, such legislation is framed in terms of fighting the BDS movement. And notably: these efforts almost universally mandate, explicitly or implicitly, that Israeli settlements in the OPT be treated as part of Israel.

These tables track anti-boycott-of-Israel bills & laws across all US states and in the US Congress.*
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Anti-BDS bils/laws -- state legislatures
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Last Updated:1/29/2024
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Anti-BDS bills & laws -- Congress
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Last Updated:1/29/2024
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Searching the databases:Tables can be filtered by key categories at the top of each data sheet.

Databases can also be manually searched using terms included in the data (e.g., key words in bill titles, dates, etc.)
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*Predictably, the legislation in these tables has, since 2021, been repurposed
as a template to target political free speech/protest on other issues, including
climate change, guns/ammunition, and the entire basket of issues defined by
their opponents as "woke". For details see this FMEP research table.
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