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Israel to strip benefits from own BDS-supporting citizens
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
ISRAEL is planning to draw up a blacklist of its own citizens and domestic activist groups that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign so that it can strip them them of benefits and tax credits.
The country already has a list of international groups and activists which it has banned from entering because they oppose its brutal treatment of the Palestinians.
But Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon is set to approve in the coming days new regulations that extend the anti-BDS rules to citizens of Israel itself.
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