Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK) is encouraging a consumer boycott of Israeli goods:
"Focusing on oranges, dates and avocados, the central aim of the campaign is to build the boycott of Israeli goods and encourage shoppers to let supermarkets know they will do this.
"Consumers in at least 15 cities across the UK will be highlighting their boycott of Israeli goods, and persuading others to do the same, to create solidarity with the Palestinian people. Activists in city centres including London, Brighton, Bristol, Bucks/Berks, Camden, Durham, E.London, Exeter, Hackney, Oxford, Stevenage, W. Kent, W London, W Midlands, and York, will be visiting supermarkets to hand out leaflets. Campaigners in Hackney will take to the streets in a mini-bus, dressed as fruit, to bring their anti-apartheid message to the public in front of supermarkets in the area.
"They cite the words of Nelson Mandela who visited Occupied Palestine and declared that Israel's occupation with its Wall, hundreds of checkpoints and rampant discrimination against Palestinians was worse than the Apartheid experienced in South Africa. A widespread, international consumer boycott, sanctions and divestment can do what governments refuse to do, end Israel's impunity."
Israel's brutality will only end through economic pressure. In time, I believe this will have an effect, like in apartheid South Africa, and the campaign therefore deserves our support.
"Focusing on oranges, dates and avocados, the central aim of the campaign is to build the boycott of Israeli goods and encourage shoppers to let supermarkets know they will do this.
"Consumers in at least 15 cities across the UK will be highlighting their boycott of Israeli goods, and persuading others to do the same, to create solidarity with the Palestinian people. Activists in city centres including London, Brighton, Bristol, Bucks/Berks, Camden, Durham, E.London, Exeter, Hackney, Oxford, Stevenage, W. Kent, W London, W Midlands, and York, will be visiting supermarkets to hand out leaflets. Campaigners in Hackney will take to the streets in a mini-bus, dressed as fruit, to bring their anti-apartheid message to the public in front of supermarkets in the area.
"They cite the words of Nelson Mandela who visited Occupied Palestine and declared that Israel's occupation with its Wall, hundreds of checkpoints and rampant discrimination against Palestinians was worse than the Apartheid experienced in South Africa. A widespread, international consumer boycott, sanctions and divestment can do what governments refuse to do, end Israel's impunity."
Israel's brutality will only end through economic pressure. In time, I believe this will have an effect, like in apartheid South Africa, and the campaign therefore deserves our support.
8 Comments:
Oh AL
I see a couple of drawbacks.
Such a campaign may play into the hands extreme right groups in Britain who'd love to aid a boycott of goods of the only Jewish country around.
Israeli ag products can be hidden and mixed into the "sourced from other counties" label. Australia received dates from Iraq under the "other counties" label during the latter part of Saddam's time.
Shortfalls in UK sales might be compensated by increased US sales thus reinforcing US-Israel's unholy alliance.
Nelson Mandela proves he either has a grudge or he is losing his mind. I thought the truth was important to him, not the admiration of antisemitic left wingers.
Mandela is not speaking his true opinion. He is either still pissed off that Israel was lightly allied with Sa, or he is suffering dementia. Or he's a flipping antisemite. There is no other explanation for his 'stated' opinion.
And as he was in jail for the vast majority of the time involved, he is least able to compare from personal experience.
But his hatred of Israel has nothing to do with any deepset antisemitism.
Antony, it is curious that you would advance a boycott of Israel when you have not done so on numerous countries with obviously worse human rights records. Can you please explain the reason for this? Do Jews require special hatred?
I don't think there is any chance in saving it. But AL's myopic choice of boycott appears to be suspicious.
Why is AL not boycotting China over Tibet?
I also wonder why the US is not attacking Saudi Arabia, but i am not privy to discissions that far up the COC.
But AL has no COC, just hypocricy.
Egypt is advancing and Russia is back-sliding.
Sorry you missed all the comotion in Egypt. Was your head someplace dark? Or is it that if the advance isn't quite in the direction you want it to be, it isn't an advance?
Progress is only notable if you approve?
Mandela is to be dismissed as an aging politician wishing to bask in the spotlight by bashing israel, as so many of his islamofascist friends do, or he's senile, or he is taking revenge, or he's an antisemite who knows a enough 'good' jews as to provide cover.
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