So who will join me in promising to boycott all israeli products from today?

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Seeker.

Israel isn't apartheid south Africa. Very different situations and different times.

Israel was boycotted from 1948 to the mid 90s. What did it achieve?

Wrong place for this thread.

Aibu probably better?

judging by the number of people jumping on this thread calling it ineffective and unfair... Its quite obvious the BDS is hitting a raw nerve."
It's a discussion thread, on a very well-populated web forum. In the News section. Where people have differing opinions on a wide range of subjects. You know, like every other web forum in existence.
It's interesting to note that you actually seem to thrive on conflict and unpleasantness - the Nazi jibes, the blood libel stuff, the little winking faces, the 'hitting a nerve.' I'm not sure how you think that's going to help anyone. It gives off the very strong impression you're not actually interested in helping anyone and just enjoy fomenting strife. Rather ironic and very sad.

I haven't wittingly bought anything Israeli for decades now. I know there are plenty of Palestinian workers who cultivate or produce Israeli exported products and do worry I am hitting them in the pocket but the thought of ANY of my money paying taxes to the Israeli government makes my skin crawl.

Which other countries do you boycott, Bearandcub?

I'm quite happy to admit that the unfairness of the bds campaign hits a raw nerve. Israel is often unfairly singled out. It's particularly noticeable in the british Muslim community who seem quite obsessed with Israel - perhaps more convenient than dealing with the problems in their own backyard?

Why is hitting a raw nerve a good thing? If I refused to do business with Jamaicans, for example, that would hit a raw nerve, and rightly so, as it would be completely racist, however much I tried to dress it up as a protest against, eg, anti-gay laws in the Caribbean.

Why not? You must not be a flaming racist, like all BDSers.

Seeker, I was born and bred an anti-racist, leftist atheist. What I've read from BDSers is a huge pile of utter racism. This goes so deeply against my grain that I have come to despise BDS as I despise all Nazis.

You have got to be joking. I don't especially go out of my way to buy Israeli products but there is no way I would ever boycott their stuff.

As has already been said those of you who do, what else are you boycotting? So many repressive countries produce goods - China, Russia, 95% of the Middle East etc, yet people don't boycott them. I've also noticed that people don't boycott anything that makes their life difficult - so they boycott oranges but not Intel for their computer.

Why is Israel considered so much worse than them? I'd really like an answer by the way.

LouiseBrooks, the OP started this in 2009, then it was bumped by someone else in August this year. I don't think you'll get an answer from the OP.

Not me.

I'm proud to support Israel and wish everyone on Mumsnet a Happy Chanukah.

Concrete I didn't realise that, thanks.

Happy Hanukkah from me to everyone too