Author Topic: Israel prohibits boycotts - seriously people? (Read 5348 times)

MicroBalrog · « **on:** July 13, 2011, 12:55:35 AM »

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0712/Israel-s-boycott-ban-meets-swift-resistance

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The law fines groups or individuals that promote anti-Israel or antisettlement boycotts and exposes them to lawsuits of nearly $10,000 without having to prove any damage.

Micro Sez: Seriously people?

You know I was never a fan of the settlements, nor was I a big enemy of them. But a ban against promoting a boycott of their products? I thought Likud claimed to be a free-market party?

Oh wait. This is Israel. In Israel, the phrase "I am a friend of the free market" is usually followed with a "but", and then by some unspeakably Communist idea.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:23:12 AM »

Also BBC article on this lovely topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14111925

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2011, 07:37:03 AM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on July 13, 2011, 12:55:35 AM

In Israel, the phrase "I am a friend of the free market" is usually followed with a "but", and then by some unspeakably Communist idea.

Like at the Democratic Convention?

Stand_watie · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2011, 07:53:05 AM »

Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on July 13, 2011, 07:37:03 AM

Like at the Democratic Convention?

I read the English internet version of the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz occasionally, and if they are true representations of Israeli mainstream media, the average DNC member is a raving right winger by comparison to Israel's left wing.

dogmush · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2011, 08:17:21 AM »

Every now and then it's good to be reminded that Israel isn't the mini-America most Americans think it is.

Sorry you have to live with that crap.

HankB · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2011, 08:31:30 AM »

Quote from: Stand_watie on July 13, 2011, 07:53:05 AM

I read the English internet version of the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz occasionally . . .

From what I've seen on my (infrequent) viewings of the Israeli press, and onsidering what happened to Jews in the 20th century, the Israeli left seems to be embracing racial suicide.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2011, 10:50:13 AM »

No need to use words like boycott. Just pass the word along that product x, y and z are unsatisfactory, over-priced, etc. Or, "That store has the worst customer service."

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2011, 12:32:19 PM »

Quote from: Stand_watie on July 13, 2011, 07:53:05 AM

I read the English internet version of the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz occasionally, and if they are true representations of Israeli mainstream media, the average DNC member is a raving right winger by comparison to Israel's ~~left~~ right wing.

FTFY.

Evidence: This thread.

seeker_two · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2011, 12:52:30 PM »

Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on July 13, 2011, 10:50:13 AM

No need to use words like boycott. Just pass the word along that product x, y and z are unsatisfactory, over-priced, etc. Or, "That store has the worst customer service."

Agreed.....just change the word "boycott" to "un-support" and make them try to prove it....

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:16:12 PM »

Oh, Peace Now (whom I generally dislike) are doing something better. They're gathering thousands of signatures under a call to boycott the settlements - try and arrest everybody.

seeker_two · « **Reply #10 on:** July 13, 2011, 03:13:17 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on July 13, 2011, 01:16:12 PM

Oh, Peace Now (whom I generally dislike) are doing something better. They're gathering thousands of signatures under a call to boycott the settlements - try and arrest everybody.

That'll work....it's not like all the Jews were ever arrested before.....

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #11 on:** July 13, 2011, 04:44:37 PM »

Quote from: seeker_two on July 13, 2011, 03:13:17 PM

That'll work....it's not like all the Jews were ever arrested before.....

You're talking about the country that wants to issue Jews with documents prominently stamped with JEW. On account of 'requests from Holocaust survivors who want to have a document confirming their Jewish identity."

Seriously.

seeker_two · « **Reply #12 on:** July 13, 2011, 05:27:07 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on July 13, 2011, 04:44:37 PM

Quote from: seeker_two on July 13, 2011, 03:13:17 PM
That'll work....it's not like all the Jews were ever arrested before.....

You're talking about the country that wants to issue Jews with documents prominently stamped with JEW. On account of 'requests from Holocaust survivors who want to have a document confirming their Jewish identity."

Seriously.

Ain't we both deeply drinking the Snark-Aid today.....

AJ Dual · « **Reply #13 on:** July 13, 2011, 06:30:55 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on July 13, 2011, 04:44:37 PM

You're talking about the country that wants to issue Jews with documents prominently stamped with JEW. On account of 'requests from Holocaust survivors who want to have a document confirming their Jewish identity."

Seriously.

Facepalm.

All the American anti-Israel left needs besides this asshattery is show the Israeli Haredi rioting/burning/screaming over whatever, being at least superficially indistinguishable from the "Arab Street", and they could drive a serious wedge into the American conservatives nominal pro-Israel stance.

HankB · « **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2011, 10:11:36 AM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on July 13, 2011, 04:44:37 PM

You're talking about the country that wants to issue Jews with documents prominently stamped with JEW. On account of 'requests from Holocaust survivors who want to have a document confirming their Jewish identity."Seriously.

Holocaust survivors? Wouldn't they already have a tattoo?

(Just when I think I've seen the most bizzare thing possible in real life . . . something like this comes along.)

White Horseradish · « **Reply #15 on:** July 14, 2011, 11:37:54 AM »

Quote from: HankB on July 14, 2011, 10:11:36 AM

Holocaust survivors? Wouldn't they already have a tattoo?

The tattoo does not identify a Jew. All sort of other people were in the camps with them.

RevDisk · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2011, 04:41:47 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on July 13, 2011, 04:44:37 PM

You're talking about the country that wants to issue Jews with documents prominently stamped with JEW. On account of 'requests from Holocaust survivors who want to have a document confirming their Jewish identity."

Seriously.

Sigh.

Next you'll be telling us of Jews being forbidden by the state to marry non-Jews in order to maintain racial purity.

De Selby · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2011, 07:49:48 PM »

Quote from: RevDisk on July 14, 2011, 04:41:47 PM

Sigh.

Next you'll be telling us of Jews being forbidden by the state to marry non-Jews in order to maintain racial purity.

That's already being proposed by some in Israel - there is at law significant discrimination against such unions.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #18 on:** July 15, 2011, 04:50:34 AM »

Quote from: De Selby on July 14, 2011, 07:49:48 PM

That's already being proposed by some in Israel - there is at law significant discrimination against such unions.

This is already the case in Israel.

Under existing law, the only way a Jew can get married is at a rabbinate. Rabbinates only recognize marriages that conform with Jewish law. So no shiksas.

However, three options are still open!

1. You can still travel abroad and get married there (then the government will recognize your marriage, even a gay marriage).

2. If your potential partner is not merely a non-Jew, but also a citizen of a foreign country, you can get a refusal from the rabbinate in writing, and then you can do a legal embassy marriage at the foreign country's embassy. See also 1.

3. STFU and marry a nice Jewish girl.

Is not freedom WONDROUS, De Selby?

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2011, 11:11:51 PM »

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