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Time to boycott the boycotters
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 19.05.06, 20:52
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1. That makes sense to me....
Andy   (05.19.06)
2. Then I am justified in not going, huh?
Yoel Ariel ,   US   (05.19.06)
Boycott as in I have cancelled my ten day London Show holiday. Do you think they (the brits) will miss my flight to and fro on BA for two. Having another join us one week in(on my expense) Hotels and meals and local transportation, cost of theater tickets and shopping for two demented females and one older "what I have is good enough" guy. Plus incidentals and misc costs. Oh well. I guess we will do a Great Southwest US tour. closer and I'll spend the dollarim here. Screw the Brits. maybe someone else will do the same thing. I know I have NOT used a FRENCH product in years. EU sucks. UK helps them. Their wine is just so-so anyway. California, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, Australia (not in that order) is better anyway, any old day.
3. Boycott the Brits
ger ,   Raanana, Israel   (05.19.06)
YES! YES! A WONDERFUL SUGGESTION! NOW LET'S FOLLOW THROUGH.
4. We won't abandon our values to please extremists
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea, Hampshire   (05.19.06)
The fact of the matter is that Israelis who support the apartheid system currently implemented must be boycotted by any inidividual who values human rights and fair treatment.
5. LOL
C'est Moi ,   Canada   (05.19.06)
bocott the whole world!!! the moon, sun, and the skies!!!
6. To the extremist Ellen Prescott
The Truth   (05.19.06)
How many Jews live in Syria? How many Jews live in Saudi Arabia? How many Jews live in Afganistan? How many Jews live in Iraq? How many Jews live in Oman? How many Jews live in Bahrain? How many Jews live in Yemen? Now how many Arabs live in Israel? You can call Israel what you want but the numbers and reality speak for themselves. THE ONLY TRUE APARTHIED STATES ARE THE ARAB NATIONS.
7. Boycott England? A waste
Arie   (05.19.06)
Boycotting England is a total waste of time and effort since there is nothing there to boycott. Their exports of goods are minimal; there is no Brit capacity for intellectual goods and products;there is no Brit capacity for fair and objective journalism to impress anyone;there is no advanced Brit military equipment that Israel or the US don't have a better quality of. BOTTOM LINE:why bother. If you really want to respond to the Brits, start a universal demand that they stop their oppression of the Irish and Welch and free them now! As for the brit love of muHAMedans, they forgot all the Brits the muHAMedans blew up in the trains and buses recently!
8. Boycott Israel?
Arie   (05.19.06)
Would sound more legitimate if the Brits stopped oppressing the Irish and people of Wales and explain why their secret police and royalty murdered Princess Diana?
9. #4 Ellen
Sam Weinstein ,   USA   (05.19.06)
Let see what else we can boycott. Travel to Britain, Academics, Tell our Non Jewish friends to do the same. British Products, Books, etc. Anyone else have any ideas I can't think of much that the UK is known to export.
10. You show em Israel!
Cadavre ,   US   (05.19.06)
Go ahead, Israel, boycott a real super power. Boycott the ones your Ashkenazi elders' corrupted with Balfour. Go show em Israel! The UK aint half starved Palestinians. Show `em what your made of Israel - show em the power of a real paper-messianic-cult. Show em. I double dog dare you. Sheesh - who you kidding Israel? Just keep making a market for bombs and expensive oil - cause when they're done with you, they'll toss you just like they toss everyone else. I kind of get randy with all this tough talk - I am off to my catcher's mitt and a bar of soap. Later!
11. #4 perhaps say something meaninful and not mere sound bytes
michael ,   London   (05.19.06)
12. The fact is the Boycott is racist, based on historical lies
David Landman ,   Boston, USA   (05.19.06)
These academics are creating a racist environment against Jews. In Israel, Arabs have equal say under the law. Obviously, in Britian, Jews do not. Jordan Palestine gives Jews NO right, because Arabs dont allow them to live there. If Britiish academics would stop supporting terrorists, and start supporting peace and prosperity, that would go along way towards peace. It seems academics get dumber as they get more educated.
13. Miss Prescott
Ann   (05.19.06)
What values are you speaking of? The values of hypocrisy of the worst kind? There has never been a country in the history of this world more guilty of invading foreign lands, and colonizing them more than your own beloved England. What historical,cultural,or ancestral ties does England have with the Falkland Islands or India or the countless other countries it is has invaded like Israel does with Judea and Samaria? And was Great Britain threatned with extinction and genocide of the English people by any of these countries like the Israelis were by the Arab countries who waged 4 wars of aggression against them dear ? If any country in this world deserves to be isolated,boycotted, and shunned it is your own beloved England.
14. #10 Get a Life
Sam Weinstein ,   USA   (05.19.06)
Oh go and watch about ten hours of Fawlty Towers.
15. www.faithfreedom.org fro ellen prescott
honest man ,   los angeles , ca   (05.19.06)
number 4 , Ellen prescott if you take some time to read the above web site, you will be enlighted enough not to parroting recycled thetorics
16. You have to know the British anti-Semitic record
Roger ,   USA   (05.19.06)
to understand why they are not boycotting the 22 tyrannical, fascist , brutal Arab regimes on the 99.9% of the Middle Eastern landmass but only singling out the Jewish state that is trying to survive despite the Arab onslaught and terrorism.
17. The Brits target the Jews for the same reason they targeted
Brits are hypoctical ,   and vile   (05.19.06)
the Jews throughout their vile history. Jews were emancipated in the UK less than 150 years ago. The yellow star of David identifying the Jews and copied by the Nazis of Germany is the British invention.
18. The ghastly Brits will not target the 22 Arab regimes
Arabs killed Kurds ,   Jews, Blacks   (05.19.06)
They are full of venom!
19. Do the Brits know that the Arabs expelled most Jews
Anne ,   USA   (05.19.06)
Do they care? Why don't they target the 22 Arab terrorist states? Ha....don't expect anything good from those who looked the other way when the Jews were dragged into the gas chambers. They are rotten to the core.
20. The Jewish scientists in the US must boycott the Brits
The only way to deal ,   with the Brits   (05.19.06)
We must show our solidarity with Israel.
21. #11 don't expect anything good from an enemy!
They are who ,   they are   (05.19.06)
22. American Jews must boycott the anti-Semitic Brits!
Bill ,   USA   (05.19.06)
23. Ellen; thats what the BNP say.
Joy Springreen   (05.19.06)
24. The wimpy Brits should stop using their cellphones, computer
Daisy ,   USA   (05.20.06)
If these limies want to boycott the Zionists than they should go all the way and stop using all the technology invented in Israel. This should also include medical and agricultural innovations from Israel. I dare them to try live without Israeli products.
25. ABSAFRAGINLUTELY
Yisraeli   (05.20.06)
Academia should now boycott British acadamia. I for one will put my own 2 bobs worth in by BOYCOTTING Ellen Prescott. Ellen your herewith boycotted......so suffer in your jocks. hehe.
26. Very g food decision by Brits
benjie ,   new york, ny   (05.20.06)
It will help end the conflict. boycotting brit will not work. Even asking american for help will not work either. Most academic have moral concious unlike politicians.
27. UK Boycott
David ,   Cincinnati, U.S.A.   (05.20.06)
Here, Here! And let's not stop with the "academics." Until such time as the British government condems in unambiguous and unequivocal terms the antisemitic resolution of this effete corps of impudent snobs, there should be a tourist boycott of the British Isles as well!
28. Screw the British Elites!
(05.20.06)
Britain is a has been, pascifist ,wanta appease the terrorist, has been.
29. Get on your knees for the Iranian President Ellen Prescott
(05.20.06)
We wouldn't have it any other way. Don't change your values, we've encountered many terrorist serving brothel queens in our day. We'll even send some, made in Israel knee pads, to boost your morals. Make sure you are facing Mecca.
30. # 14 - Are you better than others?
Cadavre ,   US   (05.20.06)
Your messianic ignorance and arrogance, fed by your cultural inferiority complex, will only hurt or destroy what your rant claims to love. With every tribulation your numbers get smaller and smaller. It's not like your history is filled with admiration for your church. Your church has been despised more than anyother church in history. Why do Jews have an image problem? A loud mouth falls harder than a man with common sense. Save yourself - save your church - because everythime your church promotes hate it's numbers decline. Have your church change it's behavior if you want it to survive. If you want to end the tribulation. Loud is cool for little men. Common sense is salvation.
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