To feel sorry for Ed Sheeran.....

@Squeezingwildoranges I admire your integrity. If it happens again I would recommend donating to your local food bank, fresh fruit and veg can be hard to come by so is often in short supply, at least some good would come of it.

mindless hatred
Ah back with your baseless accusations again. Anyone who opposes Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank are mindless? And full of hate?
As @BelleHathor highlighted that is obviously a lot of people worldwide and many international world leaders if the walkout yesterday for Netanyahu's speech is anything to go by.

Exactly. If you are happy with ethnic cleansing, fill your boots. I am not, so don’t buy Israeli goods. I don’t like being accused of mindless hatred. Fortunately the UK government agrees with me.

I really don't know why anybody would want to finance terrorism. The Israeli government gives millions to 'settler' terrorists, it's not really the a topic worthy of the mocking some people here are giving it. If they feel comfortable financing terrorism then that's fine but you would think that they would at least understand why others wouldn't feel comfortable with that. Especially given the clear stance of the British government that these terrorists are committing ethnic cleansing.

Fine, goods that come a country that has stolen and is still stealing land.

Logic has no power against mindless hatred dressed up as moral integrity I'm afraid.

Why would you assume that? You stated as fact that it came from stolen land. Ergo the whole of Israel is stolen land.

No. I agree with international law which is why I agree that Israel should retreat to behind the Green line. When products are from the West Bank Israel does not label it as produce from stolen land. It labels it as produce of Israel so I just assume it is all stolen land. Even if it did come from Tel Aviv, it is irrelevant. We try to boycott all Israeli products.

Ditto and you are in good company, don't ever let others define your moral compass. Every little bit helps shift the Overton window.

As you said yesterday the majority of electorates around the World are feeling similarly.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/04/most-people-across-36-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-little-confidence-in-netanyahu/

And the most important thing is that politics is downstream from culture. So if people change their habits eventually politicians will have to respond if they want to be re-elected.

It's not the mango, it the principle!

So you disagree with international law now? After all you claimed that these evil evil Mangos, which may have come from Tel Aviv, came from stolen land.

By international law, you are right, but there are those that would dispute that. Not the point though, it is Israel and Israel are the brutal occupiers of Palestinian land.

I know it doesn't really have any affect and in the case of the mangoes it definitely didn't but if I can just stop five shekels from going to the Israeli coffers, the cost of a sniper bullet, I sleep a little easier knowing that is one Palestinian child who hasn't been killed with my money.

Well thank goodness 52% of the UK population disagree with you, and these sanctions might help stop the terrorists plaguing the lives of the Palestinians in the West Bank.

I also don’t buy Israeli goods, and haven’t for many, many years.

Who cares?!!!

Waste mangos for Palestine!!!

But Tel Aviv isn't stolen land.

Same 👍

Out of interest what other colonisers do you boycott?

We try to boycott all Israeli products and will do so until this brutal colonisation comes to an end.

Possible but I doubt it so I wouldn't want to take the chance. I have seen Palestinian products labeled as Produce of Palestine. Usually olive oil.

Apparently it's because not enough people are throwing away food they've already bought. Keep fighting the good fight. ✊

Yes, that's correct. I boycotted SA years ago. I do not boycott Israel. The two situations are entirely different so there is no double standard. I don't believe I have ever said I did not believe in sanctions on principle (you seem to track me, so you would know). I certainly dont think throwing away perfectly good food is a principle I would support.

It was a visceral feeling but I think it stemmed from fury at myself for not checking the label properly.