Is there actually any evidence that these laws are going to be specifically directed against BDS? I see no issue with adding country of origin to anti-discrimination legislation. For example, if I were to deny someone a job solely based on the fact they were from Peru, that would be discrimination. The concept of race is such a made up term, and it often coincides with country of origin.
As far as the title concerning "hate speech", in Canada hate speech only involves call for genocide. So if I were to call for the genocide of people from a specific nation, I don't see how that's not hate speech. If there are members of the BDS movement calling for genocide of Israeli people, I don't see how that's not genocide. I also don't see how that prevents someone from boycotting an Israeli good.
As for the BDS campaign, I don't see any issue with many aspects of it. If you want to use private money to avoid buying goods from a country, that's your choice. However, the idea of boycotting academic works, research, arts, knowledge, etc...is just pure facism and no different than burning books. You cannot boycott ideas and knowledge.
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