Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate for President, said here yesterday that if he is elected he will take a strong stand against “boycotts of our corporations just because they may happen to have Jewish leaders. In a question and answer briefing with reporters after he met with 11 experts on international economic matters, Carter said that as President he would propose legislation to make “tertiary boycotts” illegal.
The tertiary boycotts involve companies that may not have direct Jewish or Israeli connections but are boycotted by the Arabs for doing business with companies that have such connections. “If I make (my feeling) clear,” Carter said, “it will go a long way to resolving this issue as a matter of principle.” The Democratic candidate said that he and the group of experts he consulted before the briefing had an agreement that he should take a strong stand on the Arab boycott issue.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
