He was, rather, an ideologue, a disciple of Zeev Jabotinsky, the hardline Zionist who wanted to see a Jewish state along both banks of the Jordan river.
"The State of Israel has for years been dealing with boycotts from Arab nations, but now we are talking about a homegrown boycott, " said the author of the legislation, lawmaker, Zeev Elvin, the Associated Press news agency reported.