My home town and the mayor are guilty as charged?

A council has been urged to end an "anti-Semitic" boycott of goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank - after ministers condemned such bans.
Leicester City Council began its boycott in November 2014, saying it opposed "the continuing illegal occupation" of Palestinian territory.
Jewish Human Rights Watch is taking legal action against the council.
It said the authority should end the boycott following this week's announcement by the UK government.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35591202

 I thought the council's job was to run Leicester, nothing more?

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