Summary
The 1939 Trade with the Enemy Ordinance, a British mandatory-era law still in use, in a Description-only entry in Discriminatory Laws Database (lines 3054-3094), the last entry in the database as copied.
Details
- The ordinance places a total ban on trade with enemy nationals and authorizes the Interior Minister to declare enemy states, all of which thus far are Arab and/or Muslim states, restricting cultural and linguistic relations between Arab Palestinians in Israel and the wider Arab and Muslim nations, in the entry’s account (lines 3067-3069 in the copy’s numbering as read; see source page for the entry range).
- Examples given are a ban on importing Arabic books published or printed in Lebanon and Syria and preventing author Ala Hlehel travelling to Lebanon for the Beirut 39 prize; Adalah petitioned in both cases and won, with HCJ 894/09 listed (source entry, lines 3054-3094).