On Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog called boycotts against Israel a “new kind of terrorism” after Ben & Jerry’s announced it will stop selling ice cream in occupied Palestinian territories at the end of 2022.
Israeli officials are outraged at the American company’s decision, and Herzog railed against the Boycott, Divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) that promotes boycotts to hold Israel accountable for its occupation and war crimes against Palestinians.
“The boycott against Israel is a new type of terrorism — economic terrorism. Terrorism that seeks to harm Israeli citizens and the Israeli economy. We must oppose this boycott and terrorism of any kind,” Herzog said. “The BDS campaign does not pursue peace and seeks to undermine the very existence of the State of Israel. It is aiming its arrows at the Israeli economy.”
The Palestinian Authority, which welcomed Ben & Jerry’s decision, fired back at Herzog’s comments. “The occupation is terrorism itself. It is the worst kind of terrorism,” the PA Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Also on Wednesday, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked slammed Ben & Jerry’s decision in a visit to the ice cream makers factory in Israel. “Ben & Jerry’s International chose to suck up to terrorist and antisemitic organizations instead of being faithful to its Israeli licensee,” she said.
Shaked said Israel will enlist pro-Israel groups in the US to boycott the ice cream company. Over 30 US states have passed anti-BDS laws, and Israeli officials are calling on those states to enforce them against Ben & Jerry’s.
The reaction by Israeli officials to the decision by Ben & Jerry’s makes it clear that Israel is threatened by the boycott movement. The view of Israel is changing in the US, and more momentum is behind BDS than ever before. A recent poll found that 25 percent of Jewish American voters consider Israel to be an apartheid state.
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Unhinged Israeli president should look into a mirror when he uses the word terrorism.
But having military aircraft conduct strafing runs to bomb children playing soccer isn’t.
Like the two kids playing on the beach
Wonder how Isaac feels about the maximum pressure campaign and if he thinks that is economic terrorism.
So, the man is saying the entire economy of Israel is dependent on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
My late-morning post has been in “moderation” for over six hours. What gives?
What gives is that we don’t have 24/7 concierge comment service here. When posts get held by Disqus, they get examined when I get to them.
Is Disqus a CIA-op?
No, it’s a utility that makes it possible for Antiwar.com to continue having a comment section.
If you use the word Jew, Disqus holds your comment. Now my comment will be held because I used the word Jew.
He has defined me as a “terrorist.”
He has defined those who agree with me as all of them terrorists.
Okay, now I know which side I’m on in the Palestine dispute. I side with the “terrorists” of this generation.
That is the opposite of the terrorists of my father’s generation, who were all of them Israelis, Begin, Shamir, and their ilk.
Is that how the Israelis want to force groups to form up?
Back in 1933 the Jews of the world organized an economic boycott against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The event has a Wiki which sketches out some of the events.
The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Hitler’s Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
Boycotting is a non-violent and often effective way to protest evil, and this is true in 2021 same as it was back in 1933. Unfortunately the first effort was undermined by the Zionists. Nominally Jewish themselves, they simply didn’t give a damn about anything but their Palestine Colonial Project. These Zionists cut an August deal with Hitler trading the destruction of the January boycott for the release of thousands of German Jews who would move to Palestine.
Haavara Agreement
Needless to say, many barrels of ink have been used up in the 80+ years since the Haavara Agreement justifying that betrayal.
We’re in the process of seeing the same thing today. The Apartheid/Zionist state of today is using the anti-BDS lawfare they’ve bought themselves in US states and the US congress to try to destroy the latest boycott of evil. They’ll likely get away with it, for the Corporate Media is going to hyperventilate about the horrible anti-semitism involved in a private US company not selling its ice cream in an occupied region of Palestine where the Zionists are behaving like the New Nazis. Everyone from Biden down to the preacher at the nearest Fundamentalist Church will probably be baying at the moon about the horror of it all.
In 1933 Nazi Germany, the beatings, the murders, and the wholesale destruction of Jewish property was universally seen as an awful thing. In 2021, the the beatings, the murders, and the wholesale destruction of Palestinian property is all A-OK. The right thing to do, and don’t you dare object!
“If you don’t sell to me you’ll pay for your insolence” This has a nice ring of extortion to it. I wonder if Israel could be charged in court (at least theoretically) if it retaliates against B&J in any way. Isn’t this how any two-bit Mob outfit brings people under its control?
Yes, it’s how any two-bit Mob outfit brings people under its control.
And all states are two-bit Mob outfits. Since the Tel Aviv Mob and the DC Mob are tight, they can be expected to support each others’ extortion schemes.
One of these days they are going to learn that they have to change their behavior to become a Law Abiding Nation.
Will Israel attack Vermont or Iran first?
Everything they don’t like is now “terrorism” and/or “anti-Semitism”
The tired old use of the label “terrorism” and of course “antisemitic” only show up the cruel and vicious behavior of the “IDF” towards Palestine and all the neighbors of the belligerent entity which cannot bear any criticism or advice.