New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order to end state business with any group that boycotts Israel stinks to high heaven for a few reasons.

There are the constitutional problems: as Palestine Legal said, “It is unprecedented for a state to create a list of entities that support or engage in a First Amendment protected political activity, and deny them financial benefits because of it.” The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, in response to a similar proposal in California, argued that “politically motivated boycotts are protected expression under the First Amendment of the Constitution.”

There is Cuomo’s hypocrisy: he is protesting boycotts and divestment with a different set of boycotts and divestment. And while condemning political action against a foreign military occupation, he ordered a halt to all non-essential state government travel to North Carolina because of its anti-transgender bathroom mandate.