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Exact price from Israel boycotters
Ido Daniel
Published: 21.06.13, 12:55
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1. "Exact price from Israel boycotters"
Pascal ,   Belgium   (06.21.13)
Timely and important article, but a few issues require more analysis. First, are you not giving this organization free publicity by retaliating. Last thing you'd want is for them to grow faster because of your actions. Also, the article does not provide suggestions of how a price should be exacted. Perhaps it makes more sense to reward the courage of those who refuse to give in to this organization's pressure/blackmail, such as the Pet Shop Boys, A. Keys etc.. Perhaps, and this definitely requires more analysis, rewarding the brave is ultimately more likely to lead to good results than chastising the wicked.
2. There needs to be a clear distinction
Dave ,   Sao Paulo, Brazil   (06.21.13)
between those who paint swastikas and those who criticize Israel for occupying Palestinian land. Roger Waters and Alice Waters are not antisemitic, the latter even married a Jewish guy. Israel can't maintain settlement construction and occupation and expect the world to accept it. If Israel doesn't change its policies, it will become more and more isolated. Israel could be a model country, it is v.ery unfortunate that it continues these policies.
3. How does Israel expect to stop
Dov ,   Israel   (06.21.13)
How does Israel expect to stop anti Semitism and bashers of Israel in the world if secular Israeli Leftists top them all off?
4. Roger Waters
NICK ,   Den Haag Holland   (06.21.13)
I hope you and your family will be hit by some lone terrorist en that you are the only one left,let's see where your big mouth is.
5. Indeed, it is time expose their anti-Jewish racism!!
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (06.21.13)
6. Excellent Artical
Ron ,   oc us   (06.21.13)
I buy Blue and White. And, Red, White and Blue. Waters is a washed up bass player.
7. Ido tells us why but not how?
Shachar ,   Eilat   (06.21.13)
BDS is an amorphous group without anything worth targetting. They are also ineffective, they haven't persuaded a single gov't to change it's policy towards Israel by even a millimeter in 10 yrs of trying. BDS is a propaganda machine and it's the Israeli gov't job to do the counter-propaganda work....and for anyone who wants to help- just tell it like it is/
8. If Jews remains passive while all this is going down...
SG ,   Teaneck   (06.21.13)
they will be insuring that history repeats itself. Sadly, maybe the real lessons of the Holocaust haven't been learned by Jews themselves. Jewish survival is not guaranteed!
9. Roger Waters?
Doodie ,   Canada   (06.21.13)
Isn't that the guy who made millions generating electronic pig-grunting noises with his organ and then selling it to a bunch of depressed, angst-ridden, pimply-faced, gullible suburban teenagers. His audience, as it were, pay upwards of $250 to sit in a concrete bowl with 70000 other losers to be assaulted by this guy? This aging piece of Eurotrash has the unmitigated gall to preach to the Jewish people?
10. Every animal has the right to defend itself.
JMK ,   NYC   (06.21.13)
But it seems to many that Jews are not even allowed the privilege granted to a bug to protect itself. Israel who has won every major war it has fought has given many an answer they cannot accept.
11. Ido Daniel
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (06.21.13)
While what you have to say is important and timely, your audience is already convinced. How about trying to publish this in newspapers outside of Israel?
12. The only democratic and free country
Jewish Patriot ,   Galut   (06.21.13)
The only democratic and free country on the Middle East is ISRAEL!!! If they are so concerned about rights and so on, why don't they care about Syria , or Saudi Arabia? Women rights, and Arab genocides by Arabs... it is some kind of a stupid cult today, to blame the Jews again? -.- I'm sick this anti-semitic progpaganda.
13. I agree 100% . Lets get started!
Yanky ,   Baltimore   (06.21.13)
Let them taste their own venom. Create a website showing all the modern-day anti semites and boycott them. Put them out of business. Start with Alice Walker who seems to be the largest one of them all.
14. how was Speilberg allowed to make
benjy   (06.21.13)
the movie The Color Purple, Ms Alice racist Walker. ? As for Pink Floyd, passe!!!!
15. Support Stand With Us and other orgs!
Mea   (06.21.13)
16. Boycotters
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (06.21.13)
Here is what's happening: The BDS movement is growing by leaps and bounds. It will soon be totally unstoppable and universal. The Zionist state most go, but it would be far better to remove it by economic rather than military means if at all possible. This approach would avoid much loss of life and property in the pursuit of geopolitical justice. It worked well with South Africa last century; it will work now.
17. right !
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18. #7 You are missing the point
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.21.13)
It is the same people who boycotted Apartheid South Africa who are not targeting Israel. They didn't persuade governments then either, what they did was persuade enough individuals that they began to influence individual companies. And not all countries have laws like America making it illegal to refuse to trade with Israeli companies. This article doesn't confront the fundamental fact either that it is not Israel people are boycotting it is the occupation and what they perceive as illegal settlements under international law. Yet again the vast majority of normal decent Israelis are being held hostage by 350,000 settlers
19. to #14.
DARIN ,   NATHAN   (06.21.13)
Because she need him mr spielberg. until him she was nothing
20. Jewish psychology is such that it will take antisemitism so
Moshe ,   Usa   (06.21.13)
history shows how bad goyim are because of the many tragedies they caused us. In this way, history proves the weak moral & ethical nature of non-Jews, leaving Jews & Judaism (unmistakable to those who value moral & ethical behavior) a high historical standard. Yes, we should demonstrate against antisemitism. And we must have more children in larger numbers who will help represent an advocacy for our standard & a growing ire for antisemitism,
21. #11 A Jerusalemite
DavidR ,   USA   (06.21.13)
News papers are old hat! I got the Y-Net article and I live in Oregon, USA. Anyone with a computer can receive it. It has already gone world wide. Personally, I will exact a price by never ever purchasing their products and I will insist that my sons do likewise and to instruct my grandsons to do likewise. I don't know about your family but in mine, my sons and grandsons obey me.
22. #2 Dave
DavidR ,   USA   (06.21.13)
It is obvious that you are pro BDS and anti Israel, so, your opinion here is null and void. No one will pay attention to you. Those who know the truth will ignore you so your time would be better spent picking your nose.
23. Jews who practice Fratricide
Yoel Larry ,   New York USA   (06.21.13)
It's time for all Jews who love the Jewish Nation to stand up to the few among us who have chosen to believe the distortions of anti-Israeli propaganda and side with our enemies. They are helping to kill their Jewish brothers and sisters. That's called 'fratricide'.
24. Exact price from Israel boycotters.
Elsie. ,   Gush Halav.   (06.21.13)
I found that Dave post #2 was 100% correct, to say that everyone who boycotts are anti-semitic is so wrong,most people I have spoken to have healthy repect for Israel/Israelis, they just don't like the political aspect of the goverment., and lets remember we live in a democracy and so does Ann.
25. Anti Zionism is NOT antisemitism
Eran H. ,   Israel   (06.21.13)
I am a proud antizionist and supporter of BDS movement. Not afraid to hide it.
26. #2 Dave: BDS is about destroying Israel
Isaac G ,   Israel   (06.21.13)
The BDS movement, which Alice Walker (not Waters) and Roger Waters support is very clear what they want: no Israel. Their campaign isn't about the post-67 occupation but they are very clear that the issue is Israel's existence and what they want is Israel's demise. That, my friend, is anti-Semitic as it is a call for the destruction of the one and only nation-state of the Jewish people. It denies to the Jews the inalienable right to national self-determination and sovereign equality.
27. #26 Isaac
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.21.13)
Can you please tell me where the BDS movement have once called for the destruction of Israel?
28. #12 you are missing the point
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.21.13)
Those who wish to boycott Israel do not believe that it is free or democratic. And this is purely down to the occupation, the settlements which gives Israel enemies an open goal. Even now the boycotters are changing their message to target what they perceive as illegal settlements, and to protect themselves the settlers are holding the vast majority of normal decent Israelis hostage I'll repeat it, the boycotters are not boycotting Israel they are boycotting the settlements, the settlers are trying to involve Israel proper and in doing so are holding over 5 million Israelis hostage in order to protect their taxpayer funded lifestyles
29. #13 Yes because
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.21.13)
12 million Jews can overcome 1.5 billion moslems awash with oil money economically. Start living in the real world and try to understand what the boycott is about. It is not about Israel, it is about the occupation and the settlements in the territories
30. The Chicken and Egg are two different things, one is racism
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (06.21.13)
...the other is legitimate criticism.
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