ABSTRACT
The Arab economic boycott of Israel introduced extended forms of discriminatory and restrictive trade conditions into Western economic and political life. The boycott operation under examination in this chapter has its origins in the earliest decades of Jewish-Arab strife in British Mandatory Palestine. The most extensive investigations of the impact of Arab boycott practices have been undertaken by committees of the United States Congress, and it is in the statutes and regulations of US governments on both the federal and state levels that the discriminatory and restrictive trade impacts of the boycott have been most clearly addressed. The Canadian experience with the Arab boycott of Israel is one marked by far less substantial governmental documentation of the extent of the problem, far less substantial federal governmental willingness to act to prevent the involvement of Canadians in the Arab boycott system.
