Sheesh, abu.adil, you sound like George Bush when he says, "if you're not with us you are against us." I have supported Palestine with my heart and my feet and my wallet. But I haven't yet found an effective plan for a boycott of Israeli products. I certainly swear I never use Teva and Naiot and Ahava, but after that it gets too murky. Starbucks (to name a favorite target) is not an Israeli company. Show me an Israeli company that exports from Israel (and doesn't use a majority of Palestinians as employees) and I'm there! But we have to be smart about this. And believe me, as much as I hate to say it, it's hard to be smarter than the Israelis. I will NOT give them an excuse to say that those supporting Palestine in this way are wrong or misguided or just plain stupid. I believe that it's even more important to win the PR war. Damaging a few Israeli companies - if we could find them and successfully affect them economically - is minimal compared to winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the world.
Mandi
Sheesh, abu.adil, you sound like George Bush when he says, "if you're not with us you are against us." I have supported Palestine with my heart and my feet and my wallet. But I haven't yet found an effective plan for a boycott of Israeli products. I certainly swear I never use Teva and Naiot and Ahava, but after that it gets too murky. Starbucks (to name a favorite target) is not an Israeli company. Show me an Israeli company that exports from Israel (and doesn't use a majority of Palestinians as employees) and I'm there! But we have to be smart about this. And believe me, as much as I hate to say it, it's hard to be smarter than the Israelis. I will NOT give them an excuse to say that those supporting Palestine in this way are wrong or misguided or just plain stupid. I believe that it's even more important to win the PR war. Damaging a few Israeli companies - if we could find them and successfully affect them economically - is minimal compared to winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the world.
Mandi