and de - legitimisation is the presentation of a political process , negotiations or some political horizon that gives hope for a two - states - for - two - peoples resolution to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict , ” Shapiro said . The BDS movement recently claimed that a decision by British private security firm G4S to sell off assets in Israel was due to its campaign , but the firm denies this . Dutch and Norwegian pension funds as well as French water - management and telecommunications firms have also divested Israeli assets in recent years .
This law is supposed to protect a person or group of persons who are victims of discrimination because of their origin or membership or nonmembership of a specific ethnicity , nation , race or religion . It was never intended to protect the policies of a state against the criticism of citizens , when such criticism takes the form of a call to boycott products . Organizations have repeatedly called for boycottstransaction.transferownership.embargosanctionin the world , of Myanmar ( Burma ) , Russia , China or Mexico without ever invoking this clause . Despite the insistence of the justice minister , most French jurisdictions have refused in recent years to consider that calls to boycott Israeli goods rise to the level of a violation of the law . With the Court of Cassation ’s decision , France has become the only democratic country in the world where such an interdiction has been put in place .