Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, U.S.A.
In Canada in 2016, a non-binding motion was passed in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario that "calls on the legislature to stand against any movement that promotes hate, prejudice and racism" and "reject the 'differential treatment' of Israel by the BDS movement". This Orwellian proclamation apparently equates condemnation of human rights abuses by the BDS movement with promoting "hate, prejudice and racism". And it is difficult to determine why members of a political activism group are not entitled to treat political entities in a "differential" manner. That's what they are legitimately designed to do. It is as though some powerful lobby were affecting the mental processes of these politicians.
Some countries have recognized BDS as a legitimate political advocacy movement:
South Africa, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Sweden
International economic boycott and sanctions in large measure led to termination of the institutionalized racist system of Apartheid in South Africa.
Had this type of anti-boycott (BDS) law been enacted at that time the resistance to Apartheid would have been diminished and Apartheid could still be in effect today.
The U.K. High Court and Court of Appeal dismissed an action to declare councils' support of BDS to be anti semitic hate speech. A welcome light in the dark cloak of state suppression of free expression.
The Orwellian institution of "free speech zones" in the U.S. and elsewhere has allowed the state to suppress, sideline and silence protestors by caging them off out of sight of the mass media. This is an example not of hate speech laws but rather the constriction of the exercise of free speech and expression. It is a clear indication of the modern state's disdain for free speech which is viewed by it as a public nuisance. Why the corporate MSM have allowed this without so much as a whimper of protest is open for debate. One could reasonably surmise that their interests reside with constituencies other than civil liberties or grass roots protest and activist groups or generally with the people's right to free expression.
Section 14 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (BORA) states that:
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