Posted on 09/10/2011 3:02:38 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The choice of companies to boycott reveals extremism and hatred for the existence of the Jewish state in any borders.
Giulio Meotti The writer, a journalist with Il Foglio, writes a weekly column for INN. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror vicitms, published by Encounter. He lives in Italy. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. ► More from this writer
European pension funds, Western universities, major labor unions, food coops, industrial companies, shopping malls The boycott movement is growing every day in targeting the Israeli products that came from the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria.
Literature distributed by the boycotters outrageously describes Yesha citizens as parasites. Most of the settlers (nearly 60 percent) are not productive at all, that is how they could afford to participate in the endless demonstrations that led to the assassination of prime minister Rabin, Gush Shalom intoned.
The leftist group has urged Israelis, the European Union, and anyone who will listen to boycott investments or products produced in any of the territory Israel won in the Six Day War.
Gush Shalom joined Quakers, European leftists, Jewish feminists, Arab-Americans, and even Israels old nemesis, the Arab League, in boycotting areas of Judea and Samaria under Jewish control.
It's because Yesha and Golan businesses are a respectable part of the Israeli economy with firms such as Oppenheimer and Ahvah, Super Class and Shamir Salads, Golan Heights Dairies, Ahava and Hlavin, Beitili and Barkan Brackets.
Most business is centered in Barkan (near Ariel), Mishor Adumim (east of Jerusalem), Atarot (northern Jerusalem) and Maaleh Efraim (Jordan Valley).
Barkan is now home to more than 100 factories, and this industrial zone is fully integrated with...
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A New Shoah:
The Untold Story of
Israeli Victims of Terrorism
by Giulio Meotti
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