Can the Israel boycott end the 40yr Palestinian Holocaust?

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Do you support the Israel Boycott?

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[quote]May 31, 2007

Lecturers’ union votes to back Israel boycott

Alexandra Blair, Education Correspondent

Britain’s lecturers’ union gave its backing to a boycott of Israeli universities and academics yesterday, in protest over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
Delegates to the inaugural congress of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents more than 120,000 academics, condemned Israel for denying Palestinians their “educational rights” and accused its academics of being complicit in “the occupation”. They voted by 158 to 99 in fa-vour of a pro-boycott motion…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article1862718.ece
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Keep an eye on the goods bar code: Israel’s country prefix is
729
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Keep an eye on the goods bar code: Israel’s country prefix is
729
.

Boycotts are powerful and legitimate political weapons. The boycott of the South African apartheid regime had humble beginnings…

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WHEN THE BOYCOTT BEGAN TO BITE

Christabel Gurney describes the origins of the British movement to oppose apartheid, set up exactly forty years ago.
FORTY YEARS AGO, on June 26th, 1959, a group of South African exiles and their British supporters met in London’s Holborn Hall to call for a boycott of fruit, cigarettes and other goods imported from South Africa. The boycott got off to a slow start, but by the following March shopkeepers were being asked to stop selling South African products, the TUC, Labour, Liberal and Communist parties were backing the campaign, and twenty-two local authorities had banned South African fruit from their schools and canteens. On March 9th, 1960, Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell went on television to ask viewers not to buy South African goods…

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/aam/aamhist.html[/quote]

David Bruce, a conscience objector who was jailed for refusing to serve in the South African Army, said it well:


“The legacy of the Holocaust must be applied to other forms of oppression. I feel I have a duty as a Jew not to be silenced by fear, a moral duty to fight racism, to defy apartheid…I am a hypocrite if my action does not match my belief.” (1991, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Word trivia
Boycott: “The word arose in the autumn of 1880, to describe the action instituted by the Irish Land League towards those who incurred its hostility. It was speedily adopted by the newspapers in nearly every European language (e.g. F. boycotter, Du. boycotten, Ger. boycottiren, Russ. bo kott rovat, etc.).”

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Nice post. Can completely agree with the boycott. Are there any particular things we should look out for that are popular Israeli products?

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Well…you could start with these companies…
iai.co.il/Default.aspx?Folde … 22&lang=EN

This might help:
globalsecurity.org/military/ … dustry.htm

But there are a lot more outside the weapons fields:
export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/ … icleID=346
israelexport.org/
balli.com/israsource/products.htm
israelexport.org/content/lin … .asp?id=20

Just a start…hope that helps…:smiley:

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Nice. Thanks!

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Dear Nit,

Where is your boycott of the ME Nations that displaced their Jewish & Christian populations in the last 15 years?

Where is your boycott for the sponsors of terrorism in both the ME & Europe?

Where is your boycott of the administration that blocked the formation of a Palestinian nation (Fatah)?

Where is your boycott of the administration that stole all of the Palestinian development funding (Guess who)?

This is by no means to say that the Israelis are saints or faultless.

I guess it figures the Brits would be behind this since they did not support the formation of Israel in 1948. As for you…learn some history beyond what you see on the news eh?

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Elequa -

Sssssh!..next you’ll be mentioning…The Mandate…

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”]Elequa -

Sssssh!..next you’ll be mentioning…The Mandate…[/quote]

The next time you reject the peace deal and try to wipe out the other side, make sure you win. Otherwise you’ll be whinging for 40 years.

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Drybones Blog

Whays it really all about

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There goes my plan to buy an Uzi. Damn.

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Keep an eye on the goods bar code: Israel’s country prefix is
729
.

[quote=“TainanCowboy”]

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Israel denounced after cameraman shot
Journalists’ federation complains after journalist’s legs amputated

Watch the journalist get shot here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=350_1183671048&p=1
He was clearly not a threat…


Palestinian Imad Ghanem, 21, a cameraman for Al Aqsa TV, lies on a bed at the Al-shefa Hospital in Gaza City. Friday, July 6, 2007. Ghanem’s legs were amputated Thursday after he was brought to hospital in critical condition, doctors said. He remained in intensive care, with bullet wounds also in the hip.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

If I was a British journalist working in the Occupied Territories I wouldn’t been too keen on a Boycott as you would become fair game for the IDF…like the journalist above…

[quote]
NUJ abandons Israel boycott

July 10, 2007
The National Union of Journalists will take “no further action” on implementing the controversial resolution by its members to
boycott Israeli goods and services.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2123001,00.html
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The Palestinian Holocaust


Keep an eye on the goods bar code: Israel’s country prefix is
729
.

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This thread gets funnier by the minute!

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How do we know if something is made in Israel ? Is there a number we can look for on the barcode or something ?

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Don’t worry…I’m sure TC will lend you his…

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Clearly I misjudged the nut-job quotient on this thread :blush:

But hey - while we’re at it why don’t we place an embargo on cream cheese shipments to Israel. We’d have them starved out in a week!

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Don’t worry…I’m sure TC will lend you his…[/quote]
Well…while that may be a good idea in your skull, the reality is that I do not now nor have I ever owned any model of the popular sub-gun known as the Uzi.
I have fired the regular and the mini-version, and am of the opinion that they are well designed and reliable weapons. They do what they were designed for - as any good tool should do.

Elequa - that Drybones blog is pretty good.

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Sulavaca I would take what TC says with a very large grain of salt…

The document below might be helpful for you…it’s not just products but also companies that support/profit from doing business with Israel that need to be boycotted…

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A Boycott Compendium
Guide to the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign for Palestine

Disney - Israel paid 1.8 million dollars towards Disneyland displays featuring a
model depicting Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Estee Lauder
The Chairman of Estee Lauder International, Ronald Lauder, is a Zionist working
with the land-grabbing Jewish National Fund, opposing the right of return for
Palestinians.

Danone - trades in Israel under name Strauss Dairy - bottled water and biscuits
and food

http://s109811772.websitehome.co.uk/bigcampaign/uploads/pdfs/bigcampaignboycottlist.pdf[/quote]

More here: COMPANIES TO BOYCOTT

One more time for BFM: Keep an eye on the goods bar code: Israel’s country prefix is
729
.

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Can we get the bar codes indicating Jordan and Saudi Arabia and other middle eastern countries that discriminate against Jews as well? I’d like to avoid buying high technology goods from those countries.

I’d also like to make sure that I don’t inadvertently support those countries in the form of licensing fees for patented technologies developed there. Such as, the, er…

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[quote][b]

British University and College Union

Text of Palestinian Boycott Call

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Call for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
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Whereas Israel’s colonial oppression of the Palestinian people, which is based on Zionist ideology, comprises the following:

• Denial of its responsibility for the Nakba – in particular the waves of ethnic cleansing and dispossession that created the Palestinian refugee problem – and therefore refusal to accept the inalienable rights of the refugees and displaced stipulated in and protected by international law;

• Military occupation and colonization of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza since 1967, in violation of international law and UN resolutions;

• The entrenched system of racial discrimination and segregation against the Palestinian citizens of Israel, which resembles the defunct apartheid system in South Africa;

Since Israeli academic institutions (mostly state controlled) and the vast majority of Israeli intellectuals and academics have either contributed directly to maintaining, defending or otherwise justifying the above forms of oppression, or have been complicit in them through their silence,

Given that all forms of international intervention have until now failed to force Israel to comply with international law or to end its repression of the Palestinians, which has manifested itself in many forms, including siege, indiscriminate killing, wanton destruction and the racist colonial wall,

In view of the fact that people of conscience in the international community of scholars and intellectuals have historically shouldered the moral responsibility to fight injustice, as exemplified in their struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa through diverse forms of boycott,

Recognizing that the growing international boycott movement against Israel has expressed the need for a Palestinian frame of reference outlining guiding principles,

In the spirit of international solidarity, moral consistency and resistance to injustice and oppression,

We, Palestinian academics and intellectuals, call upon our colleagues in the international community to comprehensively and consistently boycott all Israeli academic and cultural institutions as a contribution to the struggle to end Israel’s occupation, colonization and system of apartheid, by applying the following:

  1. Refrain from participation in any form of academic and cultural cooperation, collaboration or joint projects with Israeli institutions;

  2. Advocate a comprehensive boycott of Israeli institutions at the national and international levels, including suspension of all forms of funding and subsidies to these institutions;

  3. Promote divestment and disinvestment from Israel by international academic institutions;

  4. Work toward the condemnation of Israeli policies by pressing for resolutions to be adopted by academic, professional and cultural associations and organizations;

  5. Support Palestinian academic and cultural institutions directly without requiring them to partner with Israeli counterparts as an explicit or implicit condition for such support.

Endorsed by:

Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees; Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions; Palestinian NGO Network, West Bank; Teachers’ Federation; Palestinian Writers’ Federation; Palestinian League of Artists; Palestinian Journalists’ Federation; General Union of Palestinian Women; Palestinian Lawyers’ Association; and tens of other Palestinian federations, associations, and civil society organizations.

http://www.ucu.org.uk/circ/html/ucu31.html
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[quote]
Parents of Peace Activist Killed by Israeli Bulldozer Target Caterpillar

April 14, 2005

From boots to baseball caps, the Caterpillar fashion range is marketed as upmarket outdoor wear for label-conscious youth.

But customers are now being urged to boycott the construction and clothing company because it supplies bulldozers to the Israeli government, which uses the vehicles to destroy Palestinian homes, roads and olive groves. They have also been used to build the controversial “security wall” which has attracted international opprobrium.

Campaigners held an international day of action yesterday against Caterpillar, with demonstrations outside British plants and “flashmobbing” of the company’s shops where protesters asked to try on shoes then sat reading a report that detailed the firm’s alleged complicity in Israeli human rights abuses.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0414-02.htm[/quote]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

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Ahhh yes…dear Rachel…a “peace activist”
…

Rachel just before the accident…

What didn’t she just get out of the way?

Darwin Award waiting to happen.

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and thereby provide a moral and material support to a Jihad, where the chief weapon is suicide bombers on civilian buses and at restaurants, and where the mothers raise their children from the age of two to have an evil irrational hatred of their neighbours that breeds yet more violence? No thanks.

Strive for peace in the Middle East, by all means, but a boycott of Israel is pointless, hypocritical, and not addressing the situation. It offers no solution for the Palestinians, so it is a worthless gesture, and is probably sponsored in the first place by Hamas and Hisbollah. Eliminate the ideological basis of Jihad and we will all be much better off. Expose feudal-age Islam and its radical adherents as the cancer they are.