BOYCOTT ISRAEL PRODUCTS CAMPAIGN

[Rocketman]

Boycott all western medicines and go back to Unani medicines, after all all western goods and technology are anti islamic.

Funny enough, people are using western technology(internet) to ask fellow muslims to boycott israeli and western products.

 

[Archdemon]

nestle and milkmaid?? okay, achievable... but intel and ibm?? is there a non-israel-connected microprocessor being designed??



why more??

Major
AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, Broadcom, Motorola, Texas Instruments, HP, Marvell, Freescale

 

[mike2000 is back]

Lmao
Seems some Arabs/muslims still havent understood that israel is not only smarter, but also more united than them. No shame in learning from those who are more advanced than you, So you can catch up, and maybe even ovettake them/become more powerful than them one day. Tats the only way arabs/muslims can ever stand a chance of changing the status qou/taking on israel. However as of today and foreseeable future, israel will keep being the most advanced country in the region and de facto hegemon. Lol moral of the story: Always learn from the best.
No shame in that.

So You Want to Boycott Israel? Here’s A List of Products and Services You Need to Start With....​

 

[jamahir]

Major
AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, Broadcom, Motorola, Texas Instruments, HP, Marvell, Freescale

i know that ibm has a office in israel... didn't know about the others... and funny thing is that amd has a fab in uae ( abu dhabi )... the gulf kingdoms have no objection to working with israel.

Lmao
. Seems some Arabs/muslims still havent understood that israel is not only smarter, but also more united. No shame in learning from those who are more advanced than you, So you can catch up, and maybe even oveetake them/become more powerful. No shame in that.

So You Want to Boycott Israel? Here’s A List of Products and Services You Need to Start With....​

come on... the list is too desperate... it is as bad as fanatic hindus claiming inter-planetary flying machine technology from 5000 years ago.

 

[Archdemon]

i know that ibm has a office in israel... didn't know about the others... and funny thing is that amd has a fab in uae ( abu dhabi )... the gulf kingdoms have no objection to working with israel.



come on... the list is too desperate... it is as bad as fanatic hindus claiming inter-planetary flying machine technology from 5000 years ago.

There are no fabs in UAE

 

[jamahir]

There are no fabs in UAE

yes, my mistake... abu dhabi is actually a investor in "global foundries" which was the fab division of amd before amd sold it.

from ( Abu Dhabi's ATIC to invest up to $10 billion in U.S. chip plant| Reuters ), january 2014...

Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co (ATIC) plans to invest up to $10 billion over the next two years in GlobalFoundries' upstate New York semiconductor factory, its chief executive said on Friday.

ATIC owns unlisted GlobalFoundries, having completed a buyout of joint venture partner Advanced Micro Devices Inc in March 2012. ATIC is controlled by Abu Dhabi state investment fund Mubadala.

 

[Asian.Century]

UK Party Leadership Candidate Jeremy Corbyn Backs Boycott of Israeli Universities Involved in Arms Research

Palestinian refugees “deserve their right to return home.” Yannis Mendez

Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise frontrunner in the leadership election for the UK Labour Party, says he would impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel if he were to become prime minister in 2020.

In an interview with The Electronic Intifada, the member of parliament for Islington, in central London, endorsed key elements of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

Corbyn is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and is well known as an active supporter of Palestinian rights.

He told The Electronic Intifada his involvement in the movement took off after he entered parliament in 1983. He has visited Palestine nine times, as well as refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria.

Corbyn emphasized that the Palestinian right to return was “the key” to a solution.

He added that Israeli universities involved in arms research should be boycotted.

Corbyn, whose grassroots popularity has caused panic in the Labour establishment, said he would scrap the government’s controversial “anti-terror” strategy Prevent. Critics point to its frequent targeting of British Muslims for legitimate speech acts.

Arms embargo

“I think we have to push robustly for the limitation of arms supplies,” Corbyn said, adding that he believed Israel to be “in breach” of the human rights clauses of the EU-Israel trade agreement.

“Israel is after all facing an investigation … for war crimes, as indeed are the Hamas forces on a much different or lesser scale,” Corbyn said. “I think we should be very cautious about supplying arms in those circumstances.”

The current Conservative government recently announced it had ended a review into arms licenses to Israel started during the summer 2014 assault on Gaza.

“Certainly the trajectory of the Conservative government is to approve of continuous arms sales,” Corbyn said.

But he cited ample reasons for action including that Israel is “continuing with the imprisonment of [Palestinian] children, elected parliamentarians, expulsion of African asylum seekers from Israel, and of course the siege of Gaza, refusing to allow any reconstruction.”

He also cited Israel’s ongoing colonization of the West Bank and that it is “still trying to sell settlement productsas if they’re Israeli products through Western markets, even though that’s been declared completely illegal by the European Union.”

“A peace process will come about when Israel understands that there is not a military solution,” Corbyn said, and such a process would have to include Hamas.

He also called for four subsidiary factories of the Israeli arms firm Elbit in the UK to be converted to civilian use.

Campaigners recently blockaded these factories calling for them to be shut down. One of them, UAV Engines Limited, makes drone engines for Elbit. “I’m opposed to the use of drones,” Corbyn said.

Instead of firing workers in arms factories, Corbyn advocates converting them to other purposes, such as civil aviation, with support from a national investment bank.

Academic boycott “complicated”
He also endorsed the boycott of Israeli settlement goods.

On the wider BDS campaign, Corbyn said that the academic boycott was “very complicated” to implement without, for example, preventing Israeli dissidents such as Ilan Pappe coming to speak in the UK.

“If it is a university that is doing research into drones, taser weapons, or doing research into surveillance of the occupation in Gaza and elsewhere then they should be part of the boycott,” he said.

But he said he supports “dialogue” with “academics.”

However, the guidelines published by PACBI – the Palestinian academic and cultural boycott campaign – do not in any way exclude someone like Pappe, who does not represent a boycottable academic institution, from speaking.

Corbyn said he was unfamiliar with the guidelines but that he would study them.

Corbynmania
Corbyn entered the leadership election in June, securing the required number of nominations from fellow lawmakers just two minutes before the deadline.

At first, he was seen as the token left-wing candidate, with his three rivals more identified with the right of the party.

But the last two months have seen an explosion of what media are calling “Corbynmania.”

He has packed meeting halls all over the UK, with fans praising his self-effacing and inclusive style.

Corbyn’s campaign has been boosted by a wave of young people paying £3 ($5) to sign up as Labour party supporters, giving them a vote in the election which takes place from mid-August. The results will be known 12 September.

There is a touch of the 2008 Barack Obama about his campaign, something his team has playfully tapped into with the ironic twist on his nickname: “Jez We Can.”

Corbyn has now overtaken his rivals in recent opinion polls.

He has also won the most nominations from local Labour Parties, an indication of grassroots sentiment.

He has been formally endorsed by several trade unions, including the UK’s two biggest: Unite and Unison.

Liz Kendall, the right-wing candidate deemed closet to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, is expected to finish last.

While polls have proven unreliable predictors in recent UK elections, it would be a stunning turn of events for one of Labour’s most left-wing lawmakers to be elected leader, running on policies such as taking the railways and other utilities back into public ownership, abolishing the university tuition fees introduced by Blair and opposition to nuclear weapons.

Talk to Hamas
Corbyn has long argued that the UK needs to talk to Hamas as part of a “peace process.”

Media recently pilloried him for referring to representatives of Hamas and the Lebanese political party and resistance organization Hizballah who had been refused entry to the UK as “friends.”

“Some of our media prefer not to engage in major and serious issues and prefer instead to throw around emotive language,” he said in response to these criticisms.

“There has to be talks, there has to be negotiations with all the Palestinian forces, as well as with all the Israeli forces,” he said. “That means talking to Hamas, it means talking to Hizballah – does it mean you agree with what they say on social issues, on the death penalty? No it doesn’t, and you can make that very clear to them in the discussion.”

“But the reality is they do represent a very large sway of Palestinian opinion – if you don’t involve them you’re not going to get a deal,” he added.

Corbyn noted that it was also once considered anathema for the UK to talk to Sinn Féin, the political party associated with the Irish Republican Army. He was also attacked in the 1980s for bringing Sinn Féin leaderGerry Adams into the UK parliament for talks.

Recently, Adams met Corbyn on a return visit to parliament, but this time it was after Adams and his colleagues had visited 10 Downing Street for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron.


Corbyn points out that even former heads of Israeli intelligence think Israel should negotiate with Hamas – something it has already done, albeit indirectly, over prisoner exchanges and ceasefires in Gaza.

Prevent is divisive
Corbyn also questioned the government’s controversial “anti-terror” strategy Prevent.

Ostensibly a way to steer people away from extremist propaganda and groups like Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL), critics of Prevent say that the policy is far more insidious, and may even be inadvertently helping groups like ISIS to recruit.

In July, an Al Jazeera English report revealed that an Iranian British schoolboy had been referred to a Prevent program when only 15 and labelled “extremist” for wearing a “Free Palestine” badge. A pamphlet encouraging the boycott of Israel was deemed by police to be evidence of “terrorist-like” views.

Prevent “does need a complete rethink,” Corbyn said. “This requirement of surveillance over Muslim children by teachers … means they are in problems if they don’t report what could conceivably be recorded as anything extreme.”

Corbyn said that a high school student writing a paper on the history of the Middle East might need to look up the word “intifada” because “it’s central to the history of the Palestinian people and their relations with Israel.” But he warned that by “typing ‘intifada’ into their search engine, they’ll be deemed to be possibly a terrorist, because they’re thinking about intifada – this is nonsense.”

Corbyn argues for an approach promoting “cohesion and coherence in our society, absolutely opposed to Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or racism in any form,” rather than “singling it out and saying it is the Muslim community only that matters.”

One state?

What about the long-term solution? Is some sort of democratic one-state arrangement inevitable eventually in Palestine?

“I think it’s up to the people of the region to decide what kind of long-term solution there would be,” Corbyn argued.

“At the moment, all that’s on offer is the possibility of a two-state solution,” he said. But “it’s difficult to see how it would operate with the degree of settlements that are there. It’s half a million people Israel would have to move out of the settlements.”

Corbyn has an interesting analysis: “The three areas of Palestine that have got to be addressed are: one, settlements and occupation of the West Bank; two, the siege of Gaza and three, the issue of now fourth-generation refugees living in camps in Lebanon and some still in Syria. They deserve their rights too, they deserve their right to return home.”

So he supports the right to return of the Palestinian refugees? “Yes I do. Because that’s got to be the key to it. Whether they want to return or not is another matter. The rights have to be there.”

He concluded: “Can there be a settlement? Yes I think there can be.”

UK Labour Party Leadership Candidate Jeremy Corbyn Backs Boycott of Israeli Universities Involved in Arms Research | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

 

[Archdemon]

Palestinian right to return was “the key” to a solution.

LOL

 

[Azadkashmir]

simple throw out imf and rothschild bank, then its game over.

 

[Asian.Century]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1711260679280435508

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Palestinian goods

In contrast to Israeli goods, genuine Palestinian products, where available, are selling extremly well. An article in the Guardian newspaper (Feb 2009) titled "Palestinian olive oil bucks UK recession" revealed that as "an unintended consequence of Israel's offensive in Gaza, sales of Palestinian olive oil in Britain are soaring"[40]. Equal Exchange, a seller of Fairtrade products, reported a threefold increase in sales of Palestinian olive oil from the West Bank in January compared with a year ago. "We have run out of one-litre bottles and we expect sales to double to 400 tonnes this year compared to 2008," said Barry Murdoch, the sales director of Equal Exchange. The company Zaytoun, also established to sell Palestinian olive oil in the UK, reported a fourfold rise in sales last month instead of the usual post-Christmas lull. Nasser Abufarha, the chairman of the Palestinian Fairtrade Association revealed "we have a buyer in the Netherlands who has sold the whole container before the container arrived, they had enough orders from shops that were very excited, eagerly waiting for the product to arrive so certainly there is a lot of excitement about Palestinian products and a lot of interest in supporting Palestinian communities through the product". The Co-operative Group is the first supermarket to stock Palestinian Fairtrade olive oil (available in around 300 Co-op stores across the UK from 22 March 2009)[31].

Zaytoun Palestinian Fairtrade Organic Olive Oil - fourfold rise in sales

Targetting Settlement Companies

Whilst there can be no moral distiction between land stolen in 1948 and land stolen in 1967, between those ethnically cleansed in 1948 and those ethnically cleansed in 1967, between the massacres and crimes committed in 1948 and those that were committed later, yet from a campaigning perspective there is an important difference. Every country in the world recognises the 1967 occupation and the settlements built on that occupied land as illegal, since Olso this is no longer the case with land occupied in 1948. Because of this, companies operating in the israeli settlements make excellent targets for boycott campaigns. By setting up shop in the settlements the companies are in violation of international law, leaving them vunerable to pressure to divest their illegal holdings. Following this strategy has lead to some spectacular victories in recent months for the boycott movement:

AUG 2008:

In August 2008 Barkan Wineries moved its operation out from the illegal West Bank settlement of Barkan after its parent company Tempo joined the Dutch Heineken Group. Faced with calls of boycott and negative publicity Heineken relocated the winery. The company directors report explained to its stockholders: "In the past, the location of the company's winery at the Barkan area caused a negative image and made difficult the exporting of the Barkan brands. The company is acting to change this image.."[29]

OCT 2008:

The Swedish company Assa Abloy in October 2008 annouced it was closing its Mul-T-Lock locksmithing factory in Barkan in the West Bank following a daming expose by the Swedish NGO Diakonia which warned that the company may be subject to law suits over its violation of international law by operating on occupied land. Assa Abloy spokesman said: "We are very sorry that we did not notice it before, but we did not understand that we might be violating international law."[28]

NOV 2008:

Israeli water cooler company Eden Springs was forced to close its East Scotland depot after loosing 'hundreds of contract' across Scotland following a determined campaign by the Scottish PSC. Lost contracts include East Lothian and West Lothian Councils, Caledonian MacBrayne Ferrries, Heriot–Watt University, Stevenson College, Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations, as well as a number of Scottish trade unions and student bodies having all voted to boycott Eden springs explicitly on the grounds of their violations of international and human rights law in the Golan Heights[30]. Its parent company in Israel sells mineral water which it extracts illegally from the Salukia spring in the Golan Heights and has a bottling plant in Katzrin, also in the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights is Syrian territory illegally occupied by Israel since June 1967.[31] Since the closure, Strathclyde University and Dundee University (Feb 2009) have also taken steps to boycott Eden Water.[32]

DEC 2008:

In 2001 Univeler through its take-over of American company Bestfoods it aquired a 51% stake in Beigel & Beigel Ltd which is located near the Ariel settlement on the West Bank. After sustained campaigning and bad publicity with retailers like Harrods clearing their shelves of Beigel & Beigel products (August 2008), Uniliver finally announced in December 2008 that it will sell its stake in Beigel & Beigel[27] - for the multi-national the negative publicity in keeping an illegal bakery of 140 workers just wasn't worth it.

JAN 2009:

On 5th January 2009, th Co-operative Group chair Len Wardle announced : "The Co-operative Group board has decided to suspend sourcing products from illegal West Bank settlements. However, we will continue to trade with Israel and will seek to develop trading links with Palestinian farmers. The Co-operative Group only rarely curtails trade with particular countries or regions. However, in the case of the illegal settlement in the Israeli controlled occupied territories, it has proven to be all but impossible to ensure that supplies derived from the region are not perpetuating injustice and unfair terms of trade. We will no longer source dates, grapes and a number of herbs from the illegal West Bank settlements and will be phasing out the use of similar items from our own brand products."[43] This followed a sustained campaign of pickets and represetations from consumers demanding the Co-op live up to its ethics policy. Having achieved victory regarding the boycott of settlement goods campaigners are now lobbying the Co-op to boycott all Israeli goods. On 13th February they picketed a meeting of the Co-operative in Aberdeen, a representative from the meeting revealed that a motion on a full boycott had been put forward from the Scottish Co-op for discussion by the UK executive.[42]

Students at the University of Aberdeen protest at the Elphinstone Hall, where members of The Food Co-operative were meeting, to pressure the food retailer to ban Israeli products from its stores (13 Feb 2009)

MAR 2009:

Alstom and Veolia are partners in the CityPass consortium, contracted to build a light rail tramway system linking west Jerusalem to illegal Jewish settlements in occupied east Jerusalem therby directly helping Israeli annexation of the territory of east Jerusalem.[66]

In March 2009 the Swedish national pension fund AP7 excluded the French transportation giant Alstom from its portfolio due to Alstoms involvement in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land[68]. This follows the 2006 decision by Dutch ASN Bank to exclude Veolia from its portfolios. At the time ASN Bank explained its decision: "Veolia's involvement does pose a problem for ASN Bank in applying the banks' social criteria on Human Rights. We believe that Veolia's involvement in the light rail project is not in line with the UN's demand to stop all support for Israel's settlement activities, and is therefore not in line with ASN Banks' social criteria.. we are of the opinion that Veolia's activities in Jerusalem are in conflict with UN Resolutions. Therefore, on this current information Veolia will be removed from our investment universe."[66]

APR 2009:

In April 2009 Veolia lost a local government contract in Bordeux worth 750 million Euro to manage France's biggest urban network[64], and in March 2009, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council expelled Veolia from the list of tenders for a waste management contract worth £1 billion over 20 years[65]. This followed a sustained campaign from activists across Europe exposing Veolias illegal activities in the settlements.

Legislation Margaret Thatcher put in place to protect apartheid era South Africa prohibits local authorities in the UK from taking in to account moral considerations like human rights violations when allocating contracts[67]. This means councils can not admit to being influenced by such considerations, so Sandwell Council announced their decision was purely a business one.

Protest against Connex (Veolia) in Genève

This follows a similar decision by Stockholm community council in January 2009 not to continue its contract with Veolia who had for the past 10 years been contracted to run Stockholm' Subway. The new contract for the next 8 years was worth 3.5 billion euro, the biggest in Europe[71]. Veolia’s involvement in the controversial Israeli tramway project has been intense in Swedish media with politicians demanding on prime time tv that Veolia should be excluded from bidding because of its involvement in the Israeli light rail project that illegally runs on Palestinian land[70].

In August 2006, Veolia were forced to cancel plans to train Israeli engineers and drivers on the Dublin Luas light railway after the Irish trade union SIPTU, representing the drivers on the Dublin tran system, refused to train them due to the illegality of the Israeli line.[69]

Veolia protest on apartheid wall near Ramallah

And these victories are having an impact on the ground in the settlements. A recent Jerusalem Post article (3 April 2009) revealed widespread disillusionment amongst settlers who have been hit hard by the combination of the intifada and the boycott. A settler living on the Ma'aleh Ephraim settlement in the Jordan Valley, sometimes refered to as Israels capital in the Jordan Valley, revealed "there was an industrial zone, but since 2002 the hangars are empty. It's impossible to bring people there and foreign companies won't come because of the boycott [on West Bank products]." House prices in Ma'aleh Ephraim have dropped to a third of their value, and around 80% of the settlers who founded the colony in 1978 have left and a similar proportion of the current population of around 1,400 would leave if they had the means to do so. This is a far higher figure then the Nov 2005 Israeli survey which found that "25% of settlers would leave immediately if they were offered comparable housing within the Green Line."[33]

In our research we highlight any settlement linkage.


729 Israeli Barcode?

It has been suggested that one way to identify Israeli products is to look at the barcode. The first 3 digits of the EAN 13 digit barcode indicates the country in which the barcode was assigned, barcodes assigned in Israel start with the number 729. Unfortunately Israeli products can still be assigned barcodes outside of Israel, for example a UK company selling Israeli products may assign UK barcodes to it. The two examples below show an Israeli Keter product rebranded Homebase which has retained the Israeli barcode (729), and a Tivall product which has been produced and packed in Israel for Tesco - yet it has acquired a UK barcode (500). So whilst a 729 barcode is a good indication that the product has been made by an Israeli company, not all Israeli goods have 729 barcodes.

I never buy Israeli products anyways. lol.

 

[Bilal9]

1. Keter is a huge plastic goods company that has Israeli origins. Google them.

They make all sorts of storage and home decoration items (mostly plastic crates and boxes) in Israel that are sold in the USA at Home Depot and Lowe's Chains. I am 99% sure they got their start supplying the Israeli army (ammo boxes and the like).

2. Lowes (American home improvement goods chain) by the way is also Jewish-owned which does not necessarily mean that they support Israeli apartheid.

3. Here is the mother lode, the List of Jewish American businesspeople in retail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople_in_retail

Luminaries include Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Estee Lauder, Isaac Mizrahi, Tory Burch (womens' handbags), Kenneth Cole etc. They have a cabal of fashion goods industry brand names and retailers who together with the fashion magazines and journalists control the US fashion market and these brands which dominate it.

4. Almost entire US financial sector and also Hollywood actors/producers are composed of investors and business owners who are sympathetic to Israel. However the Hollywood Jewish folks are seemingly more liberal about the Palestinian cause.

 

[LegionnairE]

Yes! Buy Turkish products instead!

Oh wait, arabs are boycotting Turkish products too

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Yes! Buy Turkish products instead!

Oh wait, arabs are boycotting Turkish products too

Some Turkish products are actually pretty good.

I eat their Cyclone ice creams. lol.

 

[LegionnairE]

Some Turkish products are actually pretty good.

I eat their Cyclone ice creams. lol.

I think YDS' military boots are the best. I wear them all winter