Boycotting Israeli products/services

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I’m trying my best to support the boycott. For those doing the same - what products/services are you using instead?

The hardest one for me has been giving up on going to Disney Paris next year. I had planned it as a joint birthday present, kids will be the perfect age. But I can’t stand in Disney with my kids knowing they support a regime killing kids.

Any good alternatives to Disney, or any other brand on the list?

Can you point out what the poster has said that are lies please ?

Settlers there are multiple news but I’ll provide this one as one of the latest ones
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/idf-transfers-powers-in-occupied-west-bank-to-pro-settler-civil-servants

children amputated without anhestesia
anaesthesia
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-more-10-children-day-lose-limb-three-months-brutal-conflict#:~:text=Many%20of%20these%20operations%20on,World%20Health%20Organization%20(WHO).
concentration camps https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

food and water. I’ll leave this link as it’s from today
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd119dz515wo

can you let me know what outrageous lies the other poster has said please ? Thabks

Its very hard to believe @EasterIssland that you can't spot the straight lies

1.'What Israel is doing now has surpassed the holocaust'

1. 'Concentration camps with the worst torture recorded.'
2. 'The occupying state Israel has full control of Gaza and steals land and property whenever.'

The other things are horrific but tragically typical of wars. I'd be amazed if there was ever a war where procedures were not done without anaesthetic. Its a terrible situation for civilians but Hamas share the blame for much of that context so the hysteria about Israel being the worst ever in history is misplaced and briadly speaking innaccurate.

That is separate. Israel is being tried for genocide by the ICJ in a case being prosecuted by S. Africa, Ireland and now several European countries. The ICJ prosecutes at a country level, the ICC has separately asked for arrest warrants on an individual level. Clearly you don't know the facts

No, the holocaust, genocide torture etc have definitions. They are not subjective, either in language or law.This is not a matter of opinion. 6 million entirely innocent Jews died in the holocaust which was a systematic strategic attempt to remove Jews from the face of the earth. No sane person is going to say that this war, started by Hamas, horrible as it is, surpasses the holocaust. The passage of time does nothing to diminish the horror of the holocaust. I'm deeply
disturbed that you think it does.

And you seem intent on writing the most ludicrous, hate-filled nonsense that you can possibly think of. (Or perhaps you have entered a competition to see who can think of most adjectives beginning with hor-.) You obviously haven’t read much history.

Your conviction that the Israelis could easily locate the abducted hostages if they wanted to is so ridiculous it would be funny if it wasn’t so offensive. Perhaps you imagine that all Israelis (even the abducted babies and people in their 70s) are implanted with microchips? Or give off a particular smell? Or magic rays? What exactly is it that you imagine?

I expect you agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene and her conspiracy theory about "Jewish space lasers". Do please keep going, because your every word makes it clearer that you have a motive far removed from concern about the poor victims of this war.

I wonder what it could possibly be…

That is a biased position using whataboutery. Just because you can't do everything it does not mean, you can't do somethings. I find that position aburd. Do you tell people who campaign to save the Amazon rainforest that they should campaign for all trees? How can they be serious when they did not help the Police investigate investigate what happened to the Sycamore Gap?

The situation in the Middle East is on the news almost every day. No wonder it is high in people's consciousness. I bet Zelensky is looking on in wonder as Ukraine only gets the occasional mention these days, despite them actually being on the front line of fighting the real threat to Europe

You literally said the magnitude of the holocaust was a matter of opinion and it is difficult to compare something that hapoened 80 years ago with today. It is not, on this occasion.

This is where I’ve stopped reading your comment

“The other things are horrific but tragically typical of wars. “

Not many countries are on the list of countries that commit crimes against children. Israel is on the list. This is more than a war as you describe it

Luckily there are limits to boycotts.

Germany is recognizing the extremism within BDS.

The France ban was illegal.

https://www.politico.eu/article/paris-court-overturns-israeli-ban-from-french-arms-show/

The great irony being that Macron uses - you guessed it - Israelis in his own security team.

Of course, if you want to boycott Israeli goods because you want to protest their government that's fine.

The problem is, it's feeding into violence against Jews in the West.

If you don't care that's happening, okay. At least have the courage of your convictions to admit the truth - you don't care about Jews.

Why are so many domestic politicians basing their campaign solely on Gaza?

Do they have nothing to say about Health, Education, the Economy, British values, Housing...why is that?

Why so obsessed with Israel?

Sudan barely gets a mention.

The Holocaust is not subjective nor has its horror altered with time. It was literally called the ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Problem’.
1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust. Shame on you.

I have no idea why you’re pretending to be mixed up or misunderstanding anything I have posted.
It’s obvious to the world that hamas started the conflict by their barbaric massacre of Israeli citizens, children and babies, as well as murdering young people at the music festival and taking so many hostages including children, many of which are now dead.
I won’t be engaging with you on any other posts on this subject.

Your comment to OneGreen Player is spot on, well said!

It doesn’t make me in the least uncomfortable, I think it’s their choice to boycott any goods from anywhere, but there are so many conflicts going on in the world I wonder what if anything else they boycott?
This war is emotional as most wars are and I expect we all want to see an end to it with the hostages released and peace for Gaza.There will be rebuilding there and a governing body who aren’t a terrorist group installed.

Were no babies and children killed during the holocaust? You now when they were sent into gas chambers or shot on the spot. You're just being hyperbolic. What Israel is doing is NOT specific, intentional and targeted.

Israel is the battering ram for all the virtue signallers to pile onto. In short, grow up.

What do you mean "the majority of the world sees through this"? More hyperbole, more dramatics.

Result.

An excellent series of posts from your PearlKoala. I think it is important to call out the real hypocrisy here and not let this thread, which is about boycotting Israel, be derailed as many others have said