Ireland: Israeli products marked with yellow sticker

[shira]

A pro-Israeli activist residing in Dublin, Ireland, was shocked this week when he discovered that a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) organization had taped yellow stickers on Israeli products reading "For justice in Palestine, Boycott Israel". Among the many items found carrying the yellow boycott sticker was a pack of dates from the Jordan Valley. One of the stickers read: "Organic dates – produce of West Bank; Israeli Settlement Produce."

The call for boycott is directed not only at products made in Israeli settlements but at Israeli products altogether – even though the sticker notes the product was made in the West Bank. Similar stickers were placed on other products in the Tesco supermarkets chain.

Tesco is a British chain originally established by Jewish businessman Jack Cohen, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Cohen's grandchildren and great-grandchildren reside in Israel. The chain operates hundreds of grocery stores in Ireland as well. The BDS activity in Ireland is one of the most serious anti-Israel movements in Europe. It joins the Irish policy that pushes for marking all products from the West Bank in retail stores all over Europe.

Sources in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said that the phenomenon is severe and it is not by chance that the BDS organization chose to express its protest with a yellow sticker – which is reminiscent of dark days of racism and incitement.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4449775,00.html

[Purveyor]

1. Good for them. Thank you for posting. +1 eom

[sabbat hunter]

2. upon further review

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the sticker isn't as bad as I originally thought

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. I hadn't realized that round,

yellow, red, black and green stickers were a symbol of the Holocaust.

You would have had a good argument had the sticker been in the form of a 6-sided star.

[King_David]

4. It's certainly no accident this group

Chose a yellow sticker to boycott the Jewush State...

That is for sure ...

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. We should definitely ban all yellow stickers

since it is such a visible color.

Perhaps the next time you go shopping you should check out all the yellow packaging.

[King_David]

9. Nobody expects YOU to get this nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

14. Oh, a lot of us get it, dave.

It's called hating critics of Israel and BDS so much, since it is apparently working, that some will try anything to discredit them: even so much as screaming about the color of a sticker.

[King_David]

17. Yep it's all about hate ..

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

19. Well, perhaps you should hate critics of Israel less when Israel makes really

bad choices.

[Violet_Crumble]

6. It's been upgraded from 'reminiscent' to 'symbol of the Holocaust'?

Y'know, if I squint really hard while listening to a speech from Lieberman, I can almost see the resemblance!



equals



Here's another symbol of the Holocaust




Those ones are everywhere! Someone's got to do something about this!

[King_David]

10. Ha ha ha

So funny posts from you 2 here..

Real knee slappers ..

I don't think anyone here expected you 2 to get this , anyway.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. Apparently this is more about the "Boy who cried wolf" then anything actually

resembling reality.

Some people will stop at nothing to play the injured while supporting those who injure others.

[azurnoir]

12. why they're practically like

twins from different parents

[Violet_Crumble]

13. I know. The sameness is uncanny!

Personally I blame those damn anti-Semitic BDSM supermarkets for kicking off this evil yellow sticker trend. They might try and trot out the excuse that years of research show that bright yellow catches the eyes of shoppers, but me and the Israeli Foreign Ministry know that it's really a SEVERE phenomenon where neo-Nazism and grocery shopping have merged into the one thing!

[azurnoir]

16. well actually

I was thinking it was no accident that they put the green, red and black over the yellow signifying something I'm sure

[oberliner]

18. Are you easing your way back into the world of I/P?

Been ages it seems.

[Violet_Crumble]

20. It's more meandering than easing..

I've got some time on my hands and thought I'd pop in. And it has been ages since I last posted here. I get distracted easily by bright, shiny things elsewhere

[oberliner]

23. The forum shan't be the same

Your impact, I am certain, will be felt. We seem to have dwindled to a community of ten or fewer.

[Violet_Crumble]

7. I found another one!

http://www.zazzle.com.au/dont_f_ck_with_israel_bumper_sticker-128513397004640442

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. It's a conspiracy!

[bemildred]

31. LOL. nt

[shaayecanaan]

11. Damn neo-Nazis are everywhere...

Look at the colour of his feathers. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!!

[Violet_Crumble]

21. I saw another one at lunch today. The Israeli Foreign Ministry is right. It's severe!

This was blatant and right outside King O'Malley's. Ronald McDonald looked to me like he was trying to convert the tradie in the van to the BDSM movement. Shira has more information on this evil movement if you want to find out more!

[oberliner]

22. That's a bit of a stretch

Not much there.

[shira]

24. I agree, but can u imagine such insensitivity & howling by the masses here if it were....

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....another ethnic or racial group other than Jews?

Genuine antisemitism is denied and ignored while perceived antisemitism is mocked and scorned. Winning formula there.

Classy.

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On another note, it's interesting doing a google image search on the words....boycott stickers. Simple enough. Guess as to what you'll see vs. what you won't see. Then try....boycott divestment sanctions. No need to mention Israel. Notice what's not there. Go on for a few pages. What's missing....

[oberliner]

25. "Genuine antisemitism is denied and ignored while perceived antisemitism is mocked and scorned"

I do agree with you there.

Even though I don't think there is anything intended behind the color of the sticker, I find it weird that posters here would make jokes and post pictures of Big Bird and Ronald McDonald in relation to this topic.

[shaayecanaan]

27. I don't think that it was ever genuinely perceived as being anti-semitic...

frankly, I think that the author of this piece knew that they were drawing a long bow when they wrote it. The fact that they persisted and wrote the piece anyway makes it an article worthy of ridicule. It is a cynical and callow attempt to leverage the opprobrium that people rightly feel when they see genuine anti-semitism, but in a situation where none exists.

I imagine that if the sticker were red, the author would have said it was reminiscent of medieval blood libels. If it were green, the author would have said it was based on the colours of the Hamas flag. No matter what the situation, there is always some tenuous link that can be drawn by some grasping hasbarado.

[Violet_Crumble]

32. Why do you find it weird?

I'm responding to a cynical attempt to portray the sticker as anti-Semitic, not anything else...

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

34. Imagine, imagine, imagine...

Imagine if you were able to stop with trying to make this into something it isn't.

[Israeli]

26. that would depend on ones politics oberliner....

see : http://www.israellycool.com/2013/11/06/the-color-yellow/

kind of hypocritical dont you think ? when you consider how much they used the yellow star and other shoah symbols and the language of the holocaust ...such as kapo and Nazis etc ... against us during the disengagement from the Gush .

They can use it to score political points ...they do it all the time .

Not that I think the BDS movement did it on purpose .....just find it laughable how our religious right wing get so worked up when their own methods are used against them ...imagenery or not .

[oberliner]

28. One of the comments there

"To be honest, I think the yellow is more irony than intent. Its a flashy color. I would probably incorporate it in boycott stickers."

I would agree with that.

[Israeli]

29. congratulations oberliner...

you ignored the whole point of my post ..... instead you give me a "comment" that you would agree with

No surprise that you would vote for Tzipi Livni .... neither here or there .

Slap bang in the middle .

[oberliner]

30. Thank you

PM me and I'll tell you where to send my certificate.

[dipsydoodle]

33. Its EU law that settlement produce is labelled as such

to demonstrate its not produce of Israel. That may be a precursor to an outright ban on import on such produce whatever.

Jewish communities in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are not recognised as being part of Israel.