boycott Mania
Klein believes a rightward shift in Israel standard. They have no interest in censuring about everything commercial, and encour-
policy was because of the “media consoli- far worse perpetrators of human rights viola- ages a no-buy policy from the likes of: Coca-
dation” and “Harper’s policies.” tions, and that boycotts of this ilk are reserved Cola, Calvin Klein, Danon, Clinique, Disney,
According to Ralph, the group is split for “the most odious countries in the world Gap, Lancome, Libby’s, JC Penney, Loreal,
on the usefulness of an economic boycott that merit destruction.” Kleenex, Nestle, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hil-
of Israel. Klein sees it another way. “I think Those who indulge in the boycott, divest- figer, Johnson and Johnson, Hane’s, Sara Lee,
that boycotts are an important tactic.” ment and sanctions campaigns against Israel Huggie’s, Kotex, Time Magazine, CNN, Fox,
Ironically, she noted, her books sell well in are against the two-state solution, she says, IBM, Harper Collins, Starbucks, McDonald’s,
Israel, and it was her latest that she decided suggesting that the Jewish people do not Perrie, and by extension, thousands of others.
to employ a pseudo-boycott of her own. have a right for a homeland of their own, and To boycott thoroughly, those who use
When it came time to publish The Shock thus, the action of boycotting Israel is, in fact, the Pentium MMX chip in their comput-
Doctrine in Hebrew, she turned down the anti-Semitic. ers ought to jettison it – it was designed in
proposal from her Israeli publisher, Babel. The BUYcott campaign is as much reac- Israel at Intel. The boycotters need to cancel
Instead, she chose independent boutique tion, as pro-active, she adds, and is quick to their cell phone plans – Motorola developed
Andalous, the only publisher in Israel that point out that there’s no desire to add fuel the cell phone in Israel. They’ll need to stop
prints exclusively Arabic work, she noted. to the flame if it’ll just peter out on its own. using voice mail – that technology was de-
“It isn’t an ironclad boycott, but it also isn’t “We will not give any added publicity to a veloped in Israel, too. And by no means shall
acting normal.” program of boycott,” explaining that if it is they use products made by Microsoft and
Fed up with the endless boycott and di- believed a program would benefit from the Cisco, who built their only R&D facilities
vestment threats, there’s now a “Buycott Jewish community’s reaction in the public- outside the U.S. in Israel.
Israel Initiative” movement, with a website ity realm, they may just let the program take Israelis are making advances in ovarian
of its own, BUYcott Israel, spearheaded its course. tissue transplants, are researching embryonic
by the Canada Israel Committee (CIC) in Suffice it to say, few activists involved in the stem cell research, a hepatitis C cure, cutting
collaboration with the Canadian Jewish BSD movement ponder the impossibility of edge heart and stroke research, and are inven-
Congress. Its goal is to publicize the next going the full distance of boycotting all things tors of an electronic monitor to detect cancer.
boycott event, in order to respond to it. Israeli. Besides the scientific discoveries, the That’s a shortlist.
Sara Saber-Freeman, executive vice-pres- agricultural and water technology, and the Alas, according to the BDS philosophy,
ident and director of the CIC’s Montreal medical advances, Israel trades globally. one can still kick in the chops of those who
office, believes those who wish to boycott One anti-Israel website, the Boycott Israel save you. fn
Israel do much more than present a double Campaign, alleges Israel has its hands on just Dave Gordon is a freelance writer in Toronto.
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