What got me to thinking about this issue was something I read about the lawmakers in Missouri……it seems that in that state it is illegal to boycott Israel…..
Missouri lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill to ban the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel.The Republican-led House approved the measure 95-40 on Thursday, the day before their Friday deadline to pass bills this year.
The bill is in response to the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement which aims to highlight Israel’s human rights abuses.
The movement promotes boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israeli government-linked institutions and businesses in a non-violent campaign against the occupation of Palestinian territory and other abuses.
However Israel maintains that the campaign is anti-Semitic and seeks to destroy the country.
My thought is….F*ck ’em! I have been boycotting Israel and Israeli products for decades and I refuse to let some sanctimonious ass wipes tell me that I cannot exercise my right of choice.
Seeks to destroy the country?
Hold on!
You mean like they are trying to do to Palestine?
Think not?
When Palestinians commemorate the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 – they are not simply remembering a past event in which over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland, over 400 villages and towns destroyed and thousands killed.They are also marking a continued Nakba (al-Nakba al-Mustimirrah in Arabic) – an ongoing process of erasure and ethnic cleansing which has seen Palestinians ghettoised, fragmented, killed and more.
This year we will be marking 72 years of the Nakba and yet one word seems to be taking front and centre stage: annexation. Ever since the announcement of US President Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ at the end of January this year, formal annexation of the occupied West Bank by Israel has been looming.
Israel has been trying to erase Palestine from the maps and have been killing, stealing and lying for 72 years to do just that.
Time for the West to cut the apron strings on Israel and let them stand or fall on their own……nowhere is anything Israeli in the best interests of the USA.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Like you, I have no truck with Israel, and will buy nothing made in that country. If ever there was a modern definition of ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ it is Israel.
Best wishes, Pete.
And they and South Africa are poster child of how not to run a country, chuq
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