Boycott Israel

They say 'peaceful movement', 'non-violent' protest...

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What does Tinny have to say about that use of language?
Have you heard what the Israelis are saying?

I didn't think so.
 
Israel advocates lose legal battle over Olympia Food Co-op boycott

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The Olympia Food Co-op adopted a boycott of Israeli goods in 2010. (via Rachel Corrie Foundation)

A near decade-long legal battle over the
Olympia Food Co-op’s decision to boycott Israeli goods has finally been put to rest.

Opponents of Palestinian rights, working in coordination with Israel, lost.

In 2010, the Olympia Food Co-op became the first grocery store in the US to remove Israeli goods from its shelves as part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian rights.

Board members like Cox, who supported a measure to ban Israeli products from the store’s shelves, were put through years of litigation by several former Co-op members who worked closely with the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs.

The right-wing Israel lobby group helped secretly plan the lawsuit in coordination with Israeli government officials.

Two years later, an appeals court upheld that judge’s ruling and the plaintiffs were ordered to pay $160,000 in statutory damages – $10,000 to each of the 16 co-op board members – as well as other legal fees.

Israel advocates lose legal battle over Olympia Food Co-op boycott
 
RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ "P F Tinmore, et al,

This court did not conclude that the boycott was correct and that the protection of Israeli Borders has anything to do with "apartheid."

Israel advocates lose legal battle over Olympia Food Co-op boycott ••• adopted a boycott of Israeli goods in 2010. (via Rachel Corrie Foundation)
(COMMENT)

There is no reason to believe that such a legal outcome is evidence that the pro-Olympia Food Co-op boycott is actually a proper course of action.


Most Respectfully,
R
 
RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ "P F Tinmore, et al,

This court did not conclude that the boycott was correct and that the protection of Israeli Borders has anything to do with "apartheid."

Israel advocates lose legal battle over Olympia Food Co-op boycott ••• adopted a boycott of Israeli goods in 2010. (via Rachel Corrie Foundation)
(COMMENT)

There is no reason to believe that such a legal outcome is evidence that the pro-Olympia Food Co-op boycott is actually a proper course of action.


Most Respectfully,
R
So then, what is a proper course of action?

I await your response.
 
RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ "P F Tinmore, et al,

The American law does not preclude a boycott against any target of commerce for any reason whatever. You are allowed to boycott any commercial activity for the use of the color "green" in their store. It does not mean that the use of the color "green" is wrong or violates any human rights or humanitarian law or precept. It only means that like-minded people who oppose the use of the color "green" may band together and boycott the user's use of green.

This court did not conclude that the boycott was correct and that the protection of Israeli Borders has anything to do with "apartheid."

Israel advocates lose legal battle over Olympia Food Co-op boycott ••• adopted a boycott of Israeli goods in 2010. (via Rachel Corrie Foundation)
(COMMENT)

There is no reason to believe that such a legal outcome is evidence that the pro-Olympia Food Co-op boycott is a proper course of action.
So then, what is a proper course of action?

I await your response.

(COMMENT)

Just as it is questionable to use a boycott as an economic tool to penalized "yellow" people because they "want to be free," (a form of racism) --- the use of an economic weapon to penalize Jews because they want to use their right to self-determination (a form of religious discrimination) is just as questionable.

Finally, I find it reprehensible for the anti-Israeli movements (much like the Arab Palestinians) to suggest that a policy or system of maintaining the peace, law, and order should be painted as "apartheid" which are acts committed for establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons (Israeli's are composed of several racial groups) over any other racial group of persons for systematic oppression. Not once have the Israelis suggested that they want other than peace along with their Independence and territorial integrity; something entirely different from the expression of jihad and armed struggle on the part of the Arab Palestinians.

Most Respectfully,
R
 
Last week, BDS South Africa—an NGO that enjoys significant influence within the ruling African National Congress—announced that it was adopting a new name, a new logo and a new(ish) mission. Henceforward, the group will be known as “Africa for Palestine.” Its understanding of what constitutes “Palestine” is displayed in its logo, which shows a Palestinian keffiyeh carefully folded into a map of the entire territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan.

What’s with the organization’s redefined mission? According to a statement last week from BDS South Africa, the newly branded group—whose acronym, AFP, is suspiciously similar to that of Africans for Peace, a local grassroots group that is firmly opposed to the boycott of Israel—“will seek to build alliances and partnerships across the continent, reinforce direct support to Palestine and assist the Palestinian Diaspora.” The main means of achieving this is through “pushing back against Israel’s creeping infiltration into our continent.”

Leaving aside the “creeping” medieval echoes of this latter statement, one is struck by the sheer resentment underlying it. After the Jewish state developed close economic and political ties during the 1950s with African nations newly liberated from the shackles of European colonialism, Arab pressure forced Israel out of the continent for several decades. During this century, however, a combination of creative Israeli diplomacy, cutting-edge Israeli technology and development expertise, and a new determination among African leaders to set relations with Israel on their own terms (as opposed to those of pan-Arab or pan-Islamic organizations) have brought that period of isolation to a decisive end. The Israeli presence has mushroomed across the continent, and Jerusalem now has full diplomatic relations with 41 of the 44 sub-Saharan states.

(full article online)

‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African continent
 

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