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French High Court Confirms BDS Activists' Discrimination Convictions
(JTA) France's highest court of appeals confirmed earlier rulings that found promoters of a boycott against Israel guilty of inciting hate or discrimination. The ruling last week by the Court of Cassation confirmed the Nov. 27 convictions of 12 individuals in connection with their 2009 and 2010 actions in supermarkets near the city of Mulhouse. The court cited the French Republic's law on Freedom of the Press, which prescribes imprisonment or a fine of up to $50,000 for parties that "provoke discrimination, hatred or violence toward a person or group of people on grounds of their origin, their belonging or their not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation, a race or a certain religion." In France, several dozen promoters of a boycott against Israel have been convicted of inciting hate or discrimination.