A Campaign To Boycott Israli Goods From

[Eyeron]

US campaigners are trying to persuade and urge investors, vendors, merchants and consumers to boycott Israeli products and services.

Members of the national Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement say since Israel's three-week long war on Gaza at the turn of the year, more Americans are skeptical about purchasing Israeli products.

The BDS, launching a massive emailing campaign this holiday season, has provided a list containing a number of American brands for consumers to avoid due to their manufacturers' financial ties with Israel.

Full article here.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114489&sectionid=3510203

The key point to this boycott is that these people believe that Israel is stealing goods from the Palestinians. This is just more ignorance. Israel is not stealing goods from anybody. It doesn't really make any sense for Israel to steal these goods. Israel is far more of a productive country than the people who call themselves Palestinians. Not to mention they have their own blockade going on. Why would they be stealing these goods and get it past their own blockade?

As for myself I do not approve of boycotts and will not support it. I will buy goods from stores that sell Israeli goods now.

I am opposed to boycotts on the grounds that other people have a right to choose for themselves if they want to purchase a product or not. Boycotts take away this right by disrupting or all out preventing materials or goods from being purchased by others. It's one thing to say "I don't like it so I'm not going to support it" but it's another thing entirely to impose one's will and prevent anybody else who might not agree with you (general not specific) who disagrees from purchasing a product. I find that petty and childish.

Edit:

Can a mod edit the title and remove the word "From" in the title for me please? Thanks.

 

[Beerina]

I will make extra sure to buy these products, then.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Full article here.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114489&sectionid=3510203

The key point to this boycott is that these people believe that Israel is stealing goods from the Palestinians.

The Arab League had a decade long boycott against Israel that as you can see really worked. (Uh, not) (Darn, need to check and see if it's still active.)

As you can also see, Jimmy Carter really hates Israel. (NOT!) From the wiki article that seems to fit most of what I researched on this a decade or so ago ...

Weakening of the boycott
In the 1970s, American Jewish Committee spearheaded the fight to pass anti-boycott legislation to counter the Arab League boycott of Israel.[citation needed]

In 1977 the Congress of the United States passed a law that then-President Jimmy Carter signed, and according to which fines would be levied on American companies which cooperate with the boycott. For the surveillance after the implementation of this law, an office called the "Office of Antiboycott Compliance" was opened in the United States as part of the American trade ministry. Despite the fines, there were some American companies (like McDonald's) which preferred to pay the fine than break the boycott and endanger loss of business with the Arab world.

Egypt was the first nation to abandon the boycott, doing so in 1980. Jordan followed in 1995. The Palestinian Authority likewise agreed not to abide by the boycott in 1995. In 1994 several of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf abandoned the secondary and tertiary boycotts. The period also saw "low-level diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, and Qatar.[2] Today, most Arab states, Syria being the exception, no longer attempt to enforce the secondary or tertiary boycotts although by now Coca-Cola can be found in Syria. As the boycott was relaxed (or rather, not as stringently enforced) starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many companies which previously stayed out of the Israeli market had entered it, e.g. McDonald's, Toyota, Nestlé, etc.

Though not an Arab state, Iran attempts to enforce the secondary and tertiary boycotts.

So it's slowly but surely eroding.


DR

 

[madurobob]

I am opposed to boycotts on the grounds that other people have a right to choose for themselves if they want to purchase a product or not. Boycotts take away this right by disrupting or all out preventing materials or goods from being purchased by others. It's one thing to say "I don't like it so I'm not going to support it" but it's another thing entirely to impose one's will and prevent anybody else who might not agree with you (general not specific) who disagrees from purchasing a product. I find that petty and childish.

I may not agree with them and they may not be effective, but I see no real problem with boycotts. At a grassroots level all that is happening is individuals are being convinced - by the boycott initiative - to stop buying something. They are exercising their rights to buy/not buy what they choose.

Businesses react based on their perceptions of what makes most of their customers happy. Carry products "A" and more people visit the store? Cool, I'll stock more product "A". Product "B" has the opposite effect? I'll drop product "B". Merchants do this all the time. If there is a real demand for product "B" it will be made available by some merchant.

I see a boycott as nothing more than a reverse advertising campaign. If people want others to not buy something, that's fine. If they want to try to use their collective purchasing clout to persuade businesses to act the same, that's also fine. I don't see how it impacts my right to choose what I buy, not in today's marketplace.

 

[Fnord]

Oy, gevalt!

 

[Thunder]

there is nothing immoral or anti-Semitic about boycotting goods produced in the settlements.

however, i am not a fan of boycotting all Israeli made goods.

 

[funk de fino]

I wonder if this works as well as the Scottish boycott?

 

[Thunder]

as far as i am concerned, all products produced by an occupying force in occupied territory, should be boycotted.