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Enough. Boycott Israel.

Is it time we organized a broad campaign to boycott, divest and sanction Israel?

101 comments Micah White , 11 Jan 2009

Palestinians transport the bodies of 13 people killed in an Israeli air strike overnight on a house. Medics said the dead, including several children, were members of the same extended family. (Mahmud Hams / AFP / Getty Images)

In a recent editorial in the Guardian UK, Naomi Klein called for a widespread Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. She wrote that, "It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa... Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions cause - even among Israeli Jews. In the midst of the assault roughly 500 Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a letter to foreign ambassadors in Israel. It calls for "the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions" and draws a clear parallel with the anti-apartheid struggle. 'The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves ... This international backing must stop.'"

Naomi Klein's assessment resonates with many people who are terribly upset by the injustice they see happening in Gaza. Now is the time that we should collectively act to simultaneously reject consumerism and the war in Gaza. Getting involved is easy:

First, visit the Boycott Israeli Goods website and begin actively refusing to buy any product made in Israel. You can also download a comprehensive guide of Israeli products.

And, if you have a website, you can promote this campaign by adding a small "Boycott Israel" banner to the top left of your website. To do so, put the following code anywhere on your webpage. For an example of how this looks, visit why-war.com

Do you think a boycott of Israel can end the occupation of Palestine? How can we spread this Boycott campaign more widely?

Update: The following websites have joined the Boycott Israel campaign. We will keep updating this list as more sites join!

Micah M. White is a Contributing Editor at Adbusters Magazine and an independent activist. Micah is currently writing a book of philosophical meanderings into the future of activism. He lives in Binghamton, NY with his wife and two cats. www.micahmwhite.com

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Let’s see the Isreal’s

by Limbaugh is a weeenie on April 23 2009, @09:02 am Let's see the Isreal's have the biggest bombs in the world (Care of it's relationship with the U.S) and uses it's advance weaponry against a civilian population that puts together weapons with spit, gum, and pebbles that they learned while watching Macgyver Episodes from the U.S. What a fair fight!! There are so many more Palestinian dead then Israeli dead. The use of collective punishment by the Israelis is a war crime. And how the hell did the U.S get caught up in all of this? Why can't the Israelis solve their own damn problems?

remember when 21 jews

by Anonymous on April 16 2009, @11:02 pm remember when 21 jews crashed airplanes into the world trade center? and when those israelis stoned dua khalil, executed daniel pearl, and beheaded american contarctors? oh yeah, it was those members of the religion of peace. damn those evil jews.

First of all, thank you to

by Alan P on April 14 2009, @06:07 am First of all, thank you to all the rabidly intolerant postings by the pro-israelis here. Your exemplary use or rhetoric and spewing of hatred shows why you do not deserve the country you have stolen our your 'special victim' status. You people really reveal the depths to which you have collectively sunk. You are digging your own graves and complain that America has not given you more spades and that the world will not help you more. You deserve no more than our contempt, you genocidal apologists who spit on the memory of all those who died in the Shoah. Grow up and treat other people as well as yourselves with a little dignity. Regarding boycott, I have found products labelled as Israeli with other barcodes, most notably 355. This is because work has been done in Sweden to trace the REAL origin of the product, not where it was repacked to avoid sanctions (Israelis have been worried about and trying to get round the boycott for a while now). There are also many products (including dates marketed to the Islamic community in the UK) that are produced by the settler assholes on their stolen land using their stolen water. These are not labelled 'origin Israel' at all, or by bar code - but often say 'Product of the West Bank' or 'Product of Jordan'. I have not yet got my local supermarket chain to stop selling Israeli blood-products but I will continue to try.

neither side is wrong nor

by Anonymous on April 10 2009, @01:59 pm neither side is wrong nor right. The lack of communication and noone would step back and to agree in something to make all these things work. People are too mad to cool down their mind to consider of not killing any innocent, but just thinking of how to win the other side.

Israeli extremists are

by Anonymous on April 07 2009, @10:49 am Israeli extremists are panicking now as the boycott gains steam worldwide. There is nothing these evil, bribing, blackmailing Zionists can do to force ordinary people to buy products from companies who support Israeli terrorism. They know it, and thats why they are getting so agitated by the campaign. If, as they falsely claim, the boycott campaign is "flimsy" and having "no effect" why dont they ignore it? Why are they franticaly posting on forums, writing articles in the press and attempting to find false legislative solutions to bypass the boycott? The governments of the USA and the EU are controlled by evil zionists, so they will not bring the pariah state of Israel into line. Ordinary people can, through the mass economic power of a boycott. Money talks.

FYI, I wrote the two

by culiner on April 03 2009, @06:25 am FYI, I wrote the two comments below, but I just realised I have so much more to say. I will, however, only add this: Two days ago, in an Israeli settlement, a palestenian randomaly murdered a 13-year old child with an axe... but forget about that, CNN had General Motors to talk about.

People do not hate Israelis

by Anonymous on April 07 2009, @10:45 am People do not hate Israelis for the sake of it. If you force them out of their land, occupy their homes, murder their children, mothers and fathers, assasinate their elected leaders, prevent them from travelling to school or work, deny them access to water, prevent food, clean water and medicines and fuel getting to them, deny aid and funds getting to them, do you think they are going to throw flowers on you? Get real! Israeli 'Hasbara' liars like you who are trained to spread lies on internet forums, always pretend to be the victim, whereas the whole world is fast realising the terrorist nature of the whole Israeli pariah state, its elected leaders and all its civilians who partake in the Israeli Terrorism Force (ITF), and its blatant disregard of 196 UN Resolutions and its continued illegal settlement building on occupied land. Even orthodox jews and many responsible Israeli jews openly condemn Zionism and the evil it delivers - which has nothing to do with Judaism. As expsoed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Zionists attempt to control the world media and journalists are forced to tow the line or otherwise lose their jobs, they attempt to bomb or shut down stations like Al Jazeera that reports both sides fairly, and they bribe and blackmail politicians, especially in the USA through the extremist AIPAC organisation. Israel's elected leaders are all former terrorists, even Tzipi Livni is daughter of a known terrorist, they are behind 9/11 and 7/7 - just checkout the sites full of facts on the internet that point to Israeli involvement in 9/11, they have plotted against and spied on their British and American allies - even killing their soldiers, and they continue to steal land, build illegal settlments, develop nuclear weapons and defy world opinion. Israel is the root of all evil in the world.

What to do with someone, who

by Milan Kundera on April 20 2009, @03:07 am What to do with someone, who takes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion serious? "Why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth to be a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think?...If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told the truth to its face, it would mean that I was taking it seriously. And to take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness. I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself."

Oh, and by the way, kudos to

by culiner on April 03 2009, @06:03 am Oh, and by the way, kudos to Magnus who made the post at January - 18, 2009 - 08:58 pm. And to whoever made this webpage - FUCK YOU - go stick you fucking face into whatever matters you actually have a right to have an opinion on.

As an Israeli jew, let me

by culiner on April 03 2009, @03:52 am As an Israeli jew, let me say this: No real objective opinion or comment can be made here without any real knowledge of what really is going on here on a daily basis. You need to understand that we, as Israelis, are dealing with a bulk of hating, non-sensible, anti-morale, brutal and militant kind of human trash that has no interest other than eliminating us - and YOU - yes, YOU - off the the face of this earth. It's always convenient taking sides with the weak party. WE HAVE TRIED FOR DECADES to reach a peace seattlement or some kind of resolution with the palestinians. You need to be reminded that we are dealing with a bunch of brainwashed animals, that since birth were tought that the western-world is evil and should be eliminated. I have worked with Arabs in the past, many of them amazing human beings that want nothing other than to support their families and live a peaceful life. Unfortunately, they are a minority living in a society leaded by militant terrorist organizations that want to kill and murder anything that does not belive in Allah... I have had close friends blown into pieces, and known many families that have mourned over their children, all as a result of vicious terror acts. It's funny how back in 2001 muslims were the fucking DEVIL, and now, 8 years later, they are again the victims. I guess you need a fucking missile falling in your living-room to remind you of what kind of people we are dealing with.

To: culiner What you fail

by Anonymous on April 16 2009, @03:39 pm To: culiner What you fail to understand is that the other side has just as many dead bodies. In fact there are more Palestinan dead then Isreali dead. This tit for tat will go on for another 50 years until both sides tell their extremists to stop. Yes both sides have extremists AND both sides use TERRORISM to achieve their bloody goals. Palestinians lose just as many parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters that you do and even more. You don't have a moral right to kill. So get off your high horse and make your government accountable for their actions just as the Palestinians have to hold their leadership accountable.

“Anti-Semitism is the

by August Bebel on March 23 2009, @10:10 am "Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools."

Just as religions exist,

by Anonymous on March 17 2009, @11:26 am Just as religions exist, atheism does too and some atheists believe that those who profess religion should freely do it, it's their right; I would ignore those who are not open minded. It doesn't matter what I think of any religion, it is not my business. We shall be free to decide what it works for us, even if we disagree or get angry at the other side's views, and as long as it doesn't hurt others or interefer with others' styles of life, we should always have the freedom to choose philosophies and co-exist peacefully.

everyone making a comment is

by Anonymous on March 11 2009, @08:16 pm everyone making a comment is fucking retarded

Whoever brainwashed our

by MAMA AFRICA on March 07 2009, @11:28 am Whoever brainwashed our brothers and sisters into believing that mohammed, a violent pedophile and lier who could not save himself could save them, i cant tell. However one thing is clear, Africa and it's people will prosper only when some of its citizens who are followers of the throwback and retrogressive religion called islam stop acting as a drag on it. ISRAEL will endure FOREVER and EVER.

What a racist diatribe.

by Anonymous on April 16 2009, @03:17 pm What a racist diatribe. This is exactly the problem. You attack the faith of over 1 billion people on this earth. How is that helping? If I wrote what you wrote and replaced "Mohamed" with "Moses" and "Islam" with "Jewish" I would be labeled an Anti-Semite bigot.

Wrong answer. Religions like

by Anonymous on March 10 2009, @01:57 am Wrong answer. Religions like Christianity and Islam make people strong. Africans may not be rich but they are powerful in a much more enduring way - fertility. The Hollywood Jews attack religion because through their intricate network of lobby groups they have gathered massive control of the corporate world and ultimately benefit from feeble minded consumers with no morality. Fear not. Morality is much older than Capitalism and will triumph like Good over Evil. Look at America as it slowly collapses. Where is her religion? Gone down the shit hole of consumption? Who cares? America can be the first sacrifice as the world plunges into purifying chaos. If America goes, Israel will pop like a plump little pimple. Africans will be comfortable in this kind of dystopian nightmare because: a) they have God/Allah b) they've been enduring it for quite a while already Israel was a mistake and most of you guys are only Jewish as an ethnicity and have no concept of religion. Your state is an exclusive zone based on race, so basically you are doing all this shit because you are unwilling to taint your precious genes. Sounds a lot like Nazism.

I have a solution to the

by Anonymous on February 28 2009, @11:58 am I have a solution to the entire conflict. Kill all palestinians the moment they are born! These people are the bottom of the barrel, scum of the earth; they contribute nothing to this world. Fuck Mohammed! Shit on the Quran!

Wow!!! You must be the

by Anonymous on March 10 2009, @01:25 am Wow!!! You must be the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel because that seems to be official government policy there. Great contribution.

one day you will be in hell

by Anonymous on March 07 2009, @05:33 am one day you will be in hell and you will suffer then you will now if say anything against prophet(p.b.u.h)

Just admit you hate Jews.

by Anonymous on February 25 2009, @09:46 am Just admit you hate Jews. Nothing else. Don't hide behind the cloak of Human Rights. You have the right to hate whoever you want. We don't need anyone to confirm our existence or our g-d given right to our own country. It will always be ours and all the countries that have tried to exterminate us have all been destroyed as you will by your own hatred. But we will survive in the end like we always have. AM Yisrael ChAi!

People used to feel sorry

by Anonymous on March 10 2009, @01:37 am People used to feel sorry for Jews because you seemed to be innocent. Now you not only seem bloodthirsty but also dumb: "all the countries that have tried to exterminate us have all been destroyed." Hmmm - the Germans tried to exterminate you and now they are rich. Now it is the other way around and you are the racial supremists ruthlessly killing civilians. No amount of political, economic or media control can hide this attrocity. If your pride forces you to turn it into Jews vs those who think that what Israel is doing is wrong you will find yourself fulfilling your own prophesy: "destroyed ... by your own hatred." Find Jesus : )

quit with bologna. If you

by Truth Teller - nothing more, nothing less on March 01 2009, @06:16 pm quit with bologna. If you say anything these days it's anti-semetic. I guess the jews also own the rights to human tragedy as well these days. Riddle me this, you're telling us it's your God given right to be in that land, but you guys are the descendants of the Kazaars, not the true Israelites...but I guess that's why you call yourselves Israeli's converts. That land belongs to the original jews who were exiled to Ethiopia. You don't see them complaining about wanting their land back, it's because in due time, the land will be returned to them. Here's something for you to think about, in the Bible it says the Arc of the Covenant will always be in the hands of the Jews. This is the Bible i'm talking about, not some random book. The Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia right now with the original jews. Why don't the Kazaars in Israel have it. ahhhh.....unless God is lying, which I doubt he is because he is a perfect God, somewhere I think you're wrong about being who you say you are. Another thing, the jews hate the violence over there, but are only getting attacked because they forced apartheid upon the arab people. I mean, if I lived somewhere and people kept attacking me because they didnt' want me there, I'd probably leave. I guess this logic does not apply to the Kazaars. I'm no arab lover; hey they come to black neighborhoods and serve them swine and liquor and porn, something they wouldn't do anywhere else, so i'm not biased, just here to tell it like it is. In the end the land of Israel will be returned to the original people as promised by God Himself. It's only a matter of time, and you will get the land you deserve.

they should kick EVERYONE

by CHE the polar bear on February 21 2009, @01:41 pm they should kick EVERYONE THE FUCK OUT. palestine, jews, blacks whites, everyone, and only allow aniMals to roam free Its obvious these dumb fucking idiots cant resolve it themselves, call the motherfucking green berets and kill every living human being that will teach them what the fuck is up. .............R3VOLUTION

Yours is by far the most

by Anonymous on February 24 2009, @04:28 am Yours is by far the most stupid comment ANYBODY has left on this forum...

We know a lot about the

by Anonymous on February 03 2009, @04:07 am We know a lot about the exaggerated claims Israel makes of the threat they are under. What we were denied during Israel's latest attrocity, was the knowledge of all the evil war crimes Israel were committing in Gaza because the evil Israelis would not allow the press in to Gaza to witness their genocide. Quite frankly i am sick of hearing israeli propaganda which is becoming more and more desperate. The people in Siderot are all squatting - not settling ( I hate that dreamy term , reminiscent of the Little House on the Prairie) in a country that is not theirs ! They should wake up to why they are at the receiving these rockets. Are they fleeing from a holocaust? - NO, - they are causing one. They are economic migrants who are happy to crap on the Palestinians for their own economic advantage. What do they expect, that they can massacre the Palestinians and receive bouquets of flowers from them in return? BOYCOTT NOW!!! every thinking, caring person is doing it! Well done Mica !!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck the islami terorists. i

by ahmed jabri tabrizi-romania on January 30 2009, @03:44 pm fuck the islami terorists. i m the shariff arab from timisoara romania

u anti jew aint know nothing

by sti on January 30 2009, @11:02 am u anti jew aint know nothing about what is really happen here in israel, sderot city is attackted for 8 years by hamas terror organizaation and no one say not 1 damme word against it, so before u chose to hate israel search some on the net, for start,type the word sderot on google and this just a lil' exmpele

sti you should not try to

by Anonymous on February 24 2009, @04:35 am sti you should not try to explain a thing to these maggots since you know: "the is noone as blind as someone who does not want to see" (or similar) It takes one look at the news (even if they try so hard to make us believe the opposite) that: a) most israeli live like all westerners (freedom of speech etc.. brief: "civilization") b) most palestinians live like all the fanatics live (in caves, shouting and yelling and waving banners) It doesn't even take a spinal cord to do that and the proper word for this is "neanderthal men". Don't waste your energy on willingly ignorant.

Micah. You are doing the

by Anonymous on January 26 2009, @02:54 pm Micah. You are doing the right thing!!! Keep it up. The world needs brave people like you. We love you !!!!!