Consumer boycott of Israeli products in U.S.

From Rabbi Isaac Jeret of South Bay, California, comes this news about boycotts of Israeli products, a tactic copied from Europe into the U.S.  The particular boycott is of Trader Joe’s, a nationwide chain that has a store on 14th Street in Manhattan.  Other stores will be boycotted, too.  They weren’t named.

The Boycott Divestment Campaign is a coalition of anti-Israel groups based in Pittsburgh, PA..  Affiliated with it is the South Bay Mobilization Group (actually from another, more northern California area than the Rabbi’s).  The boycott is scheduled to start on Saturday, June 20.  Before that, a group of boycotters entered a Trader Joe's in Pittsburgh, knocked Israeli products off the shelves, and accosted customers.  The manager threw them out as trespassers.  [Why not as vandals?  Let their bad behavior work against them!] 

The Campaign casts Israel as an apartheid state.  Israel isn’t.  The boycotters repeat false claims about dispossession omit the real crimes of the Arabs along those lines.

Europe has many Muslims [tending towards bigotry].  American has enough Jews to oppose the boycott effectively. 

Rabbi Jeret urges you people of good will to patronize Trader Joe’s, because it stocks Israeli products and did not cave in to the boycott.  Introduce yourselves to the managers, and explain why you are there.  [Suggestion: have some Israeli products in your cart, when speaking to the manager.]

More information may be obtained from www.StandWithUs.org  (6/19).

I sometimes shop at Trader Joe's.  They are known for moderate prices and some organic products.

I think it shouldn’t be only Jews who defend Israel and businesses from bigots.  It would be wise for all Americans to nip this campaign in the bud.  Remember, the boycotters are allied with the jihadists seeking to conquer America, among other places.

The Campaign supports formation of an Arab state in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza based on expulsion of the Jews.  Now that is apartheid!  Their accusation against Israel of being an apartheid state therefore is hypocritical.  They make that accusation because it is a powerful one, not because it has any validity.

My source explains that the Campaign supporters either are ignorant or are antisemitic.  Antisemitism, buttressed by indoctrination in madrassas, mosques, and the Muslim media, and vented by vandalism and assaults, has grown tremendously.  Therefore, my source’s charge is not an idle one, though antisemites have learned to parry accusations against them as defamatory.  Occasionally, some Jews make such serious accusations lightly. 

The Jews, once again having become an international scapegoat, now by the current major totalitarian movement, Radical Islam, are easy to target.  Any boycott, however sincere its deluded organizers, is bound to pick up support automatically from the fascistic Radical Muslims and from other people eager to have a group to hate.  Any excuse will do.  Facts not considered.  Logic irrelevant.  Mob emotion rules.

It is unfortunate that the Left becomes more radical and increasingly allies itself with aggressive Muslims, as on campus and in European political party platforms.  This is a stain on the Left’s record.