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Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions
Despite its utter cruelty and destructiveness Israel is far from achieving its goal of ethnic cleansing Gaza. It also has not even dared yet to attack Hizbullah in south Lebanon. This while Zionists settlers had to move out of the areas surrounding Gaza and from the ground near to the Lebanese border.
Netanyahoo is in a trap. He has to 'do something' to allow for the return of the internal refugees to their homes. But any action towards that will cause more death of his troops and may well hurt Israel's strategic viability.
It seems that the Zionist idea of a settler colony exclusively for Jews is coming, slowly but surely, to its inevitable end.
There have long be signs of this. The boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel has been continuously growing.
I remember that some decades ago groceries in Germany were selling 'Jaffa oranges'. These were from Israel – good fruits by the way – but already back then a constant and more or less silent campaign was underway to shun Israeli products. 'Jaffa oranges' are no longer marketed here. I presume that are now used to produce orange juice which can be sold without naming the country from where the fruits in the juice came from.
There were other failed attempts to sell Israeli produce into European markets. A year or two ago some local Aldi store had potatoes for sale with the country of origin marked as 'Israel/Germany'. I talked to the sales manager and protested against that designation. He admitted that it was wrong to use two origins for one product but complained that if he would label the origin as 'Israel' nobody would buy them.
I have since seen no potatoes from Israel.
People check the country of origin when they buy tangerines. Others check the first three numbers of the barcode on canned products. Anything that starts with 729 comes from a company registered in Israel. I don't buy those neither should you.
During my time as an IT executive I had worked with network managers who would shun any equipment from Israel. Not only because there was a high risk that it could be used for espionage but out of principle concern over Israeli policies.
Back in October Starbucks had sued Workers United – the union organizing its employees — because the union had posted a pro-Palestinian message on social media. The result was a global call to boycott Starbucks. Its success is astonishing:
World's biggest coffee chain cuts sales forecast and misses market expectations amid boycotts – MSN, Jan 31 2024
The world's biggest coffee chain told investors on Tuesday night there was a "significant impact on traffic and sales" in the Middle East due to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The impact was also felt in the US as boycotts of the chain took place, chief executive Laxman Narasimhan told attendees of a post-quarterly earnings conference call.
Some had avoided Starbucks in the Middle East and US after it took legal action in October against Workers United for using Starbucks's name and similar logo.
A post from the union's social media account in October expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people before being deleted.
Boycotting Israel related products is the one small thing each and everyone of us can do without much effort of strain.
Over time it will be successful.
But who will organize this multinational force?
The Houthis? African nations? Maybe South Africa?
Posted by: Jane | Feb 3 2024 3:50 utc | 205
I’d recommend Turkey as the lead army / power.
Closely followed by the Saudis, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Almost 1948 v2.0
Backed up diplomatically and militarily first by Russia, China, South Africa. And then military armed forces involvement by India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
With additional early military and humanitarian aide logistics support by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
As well as IRAN, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and the Taliban army from Afghanistan.
And maybe even Oman, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Yemen, and Bahrain.
Plus Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Philippines, and Viet Nam, and even Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Mexico, and Equador.
And then additional support including ground forces where possible by Nigeria, Algeria, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Sudan. With Mali, Niger, Tanzania, and Senegal.
Whoever can assist is a bonus. The more the merrier. Many hands make Light work!
Readers might note a pattern arising here in the lists.
It’s way past time they all nailed their colours to the Mast!
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Feb 3 2024 4:42 utc | 211
Israel Shahak: “Indeed, close analysis of Israeli grand strategies and actual principles of foreign policy, as they are expressed in Hebrew, makes it clear that it is ‘Jewish ideology’, more than any other factor, which determines actual Israeli policies. The disregard of Judaism as it really is and of ‘Jewish ideology’ makes those policies incomprehensible to foreign observers who usually know nothing about Judaism except crude apologetics.”
more from the horse’s mouth:
“Classical Judaism, which is clearly discernible in this period, has undergone very few changes since then, and (in the guise of Orthodox Judaism) is still a powerful force today.”
“Classical Jewish society has no peasants, and in this it differs profoundly from earlier Jewish societies in the two centers, Palestine and Mesopotamia. It is difficult for us, in modern times, to understand what this means. We have to make an effort to imagine what serfdom was like; the enormous difference in literacy, let alone education, between village and town throughout this period; the incomparably greater freedom enjoyed by all the small minority who were not peasants – in order to realize that during the whole of the classical period the Jews, in spite of all the persecutions to which they were subjected, formed an integral part of the privileged classes. Jewish historiography, especially in English, is misleading on this point inasmuch as it tends to focus on Jewish poverty and anti-Jewish discrimination. Both were real enough at times; but the poorest Jewish craftsman, peddler, land-lord’s steward or petty cleric was immeasurably better off than a serf. This was particularly true in those European countries where serfdom persisted into the 19th century, whether in a partial or extreme form: Prussia, Austria (including Hungary), Poland and the Polish lands taken by Russia. And it is not without significance that, prior to the beginning of the great Jewish migration of modern times (around 1880), a large majority of all Jews were living in those areas and that their most important social function there was to mediate the oppression of the peasants on behalf of the nobility and the Crown.”
“Everywhere, classical Judaism developed hatred and contempt for agriculture as an occupation and for peasants as a class, even more than for other Gentiles – a hatred of which I know no parallel in other societies. This is immediately apparent to anyone who is familiar with the Yiddish or Hebrew literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.”
“Most east-European Jewish socialists (that is, members of exclusively or predominantly Jewish parties and factions) are guilty of never pointing out this fact; indeed, many were themselves tainted with a ferocious anti-peasant attitude inherited from classical Judaism.”
According to jew Israel Shahak, it’s not anybody but the practitioners of judaism that poisons jews:
“It is a fact which must be remembered, not least by Jews themselves, that for centuries our totalitarian society has employed barbaric and inhumane customs to poison the minds of its members, and it is still doing so. These inhumane customs cannot be explained away as mere reaction to antisemitism or persecution of Jews: they are gratuitous barbarities directed against each and every human being.”
I am getting my information from the jew named Israel Shahak in his book Jewish History, Jewish Religion, and I stand by what he wrote and I said. 15 years ago I, too, was writing that “israel” had a right to defend itself. 10 years ago I was writing that judaism is not zionism. Then I read books BY JEWS who revealed the truth about judaism and I lost my blinders. Now I see zero redeeming features in it. It’s a CULT, not a religion – jews themselves said it isn’t a religion like Christian or Islam.
It’s a CULT of evil that has as its most fundamental pillar the rejection of the equality of man, the absolute condemnation of equality of humankind. It is wicked, dangerous, it exists to deceive, it thrives on genocide of “the other” BY DEFINITION.
The idea that it is what I say that invites harm to Palestinians is LUDICROUS. It’s STUPID. Those who apologize for jews and judaism risk getting most of humanity killed. I welcome ANY “other” to be my next-door neighbor; any color, creed, religion – any group at all – but NOT jews because they are LETHAL enemies of mankind save for the wealthpower giants they nurture, cultivate, empower.
Shahak again: “It must be pointed out that in all the worst anti-Jewish persecutions, that is, where Jews were killed, the ruling elite – the emperor and the pope, the kings, the higher aristocracy and the upper clergy, as well as the rich bourgeoisie in the autonomous cities – were always on the side of the Jews. The latter’s enemies belonged to the more oppressed and exploited classes…”
“The whole racist propaganda on the theme of the supposed superiority of Jewish morality and intellect (in which many Jewish socialists were prominent) is bound up with a lack of sensitivity for the suffering of that major part of humanity who were especially oppressed during the last thousand years – the peasants.”
“Classical Jewish society was particularly dependent on kings or on nobles with royal powers. In the next chapter we discuss various Jewish laws directed against Gentiles, and in particular laws which command Jews to revile Gentiles…allow one and only one exception: a Gentile king, or a locally powerful magnate… As we shall see Jewish doctors, who are in general forbidden to save the lives of ordinary Gentiles on the Sabbath, are commanded to do their utmost in healing magnates and rulers…”
Those snips are just the tip of the iceburg and if you haven’t read that book you ought hold your opinion until you do. And that’s just one book!
Humanity would be wise to end judaism just like it ended nazism. Zero tolerance is needed. judaism’s apologists are mis-informed and lack self-respect and survival instinct.
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Feb 3 2024 6:23 utc | 227
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