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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think it's most likely that Baird and Blaney were both offering a lot of bluster about BDS for purposes of the government's relationship with Israel, without really having any thought about how they were going to actually follow through on that, or whether anyone would actually look into whether there was any truth to their statements. And then when pressed by a reporter for a quote, a spokesperson, not getting any answers from her own department about how to respond, gave some boilerplate stuff about what laws are on the books, without stating anything about how they would be enforced here.
To me it's most plausible that this is the result of a couple ministers trying to sound tough to the international community, and then a spokesperson doing her best to make it seem like these weren't just empty words, and instead getting her department into trouble.
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