Additional story from NPR of a farmer that simply lost his olive trees when Israeli soldiers kicked him off his land.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1211987812/israel-hamas-west-bank-gaza-war-conflict-idf
In the story, they say he is one of many.
This genocide by Israel has to stop.
That’s been a common tactic, sometimes before a settlement is built they’ll move in cut down or burn olive trees and then come back to build like a month later.
What things from Israel can we stop buying ?
https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide
And of course anything made in Israel.
I definitely did a touble-take at that domain name. Really good link though, thanks!
Definitely avoid companies that are profiting from activity in the West Bank, but not all of Israel. Israel includes many ethnic minorities that would be harmed all the same.
The same applied to apartheid South Africa, but the boycotts still happened and benefitted the oppressed far more than it harmed them.
The thing is: The idea is to economically isolate Israel until they stop their occupation of Palestine. It’s the same idea as the sanctions on Russia. Just boycotting actively guilty companies isn’t enough to get them to stop.
Also, Israel doesn’t for example, distinguish between produce made in Israel proper and in West Bank settlements unless they’re forced to (like the EU did); otherwise it’s all written as “made in Israel”. That means you can’t avoid settlement products unless you avoid Israeli products as a whole.
I get that, but I have had the opportunity to talk to several people from Israel. They’ve grown up surrounded by this conflict. Inflicting collective punishment on them doesn’t sit well with me. This is a more multi-dimensional situation than the apartheid of South Africa or the invasion by Russia. This is as much a string of failures of leadership in Israel and Palestine as anything else.
This is a more multi-dimensional situation than the apartheid of South Africa or the invasion by Russia.
It’s not really, though. If anything it’s worse because at least the Apartheid didn’t go as far as attempting genocide (which Israel has shown consistently to be their long-term goal in Palestine. They’ve grown up surrounded by this conflict because the brutal occupation of Palestine has gone on for more than 50 years.
I don’t know any products made by Israel but there’s a site that says which company supports Israel.
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https://bdnaash.com/ (site to see which company supports them).
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https://reversecanarymission.org/ (site to see which celebrity supports them).
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Colonisers gonna colonise.
Genociders gonna genocide.
What the fuck
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While I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a picture of the common Israeli, you can assume that about 50% of Jewish Israelis support this behavior (since the current Israeli government is a right-wing coalition), and that this is a picture of all (with almost no exception) Israeli settlers. Make of that what you will.
They slept in, look again
Can’t have a discussion on any news about the war anymore without a bunch of comments like this these days.
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