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Tequila
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02 Oct 2013, 1:15 pm

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Britain's failing Israel boycott campaign
  • The Israel boycott movement is (rather hilariously in the quoted case) flopping in the UK. Maybe steam is running out of any enthusiasm for boycott campaigns that have zero effect on Israel’s economy
Ever keen to boycott Israeli goods, even at the expense of the Palestinians they claim to support, Britain’s anti-Israel BDS groups planned a nationwide “day of action” against the popular Sodastream last Saturday (28 September), to mark a year since the flagship “Ecostream” store opened in Brighton stocking the full range of Sodatream products.

Demonstrations were scheduled at John Lewis in London’s Oxford Street and stores in Sheffield and elsewhere, besides a march and some speeches at the Brighton store.

Maybe the supporters of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and their companions in boycott were all busy that day, or maybe the steam is running out of any enthusiasm for boycott campaigns that have zero effect on Israel’s economy! Whatever the reason, Saturday turned out to be a day of supreme inaction everywhere.


Read the whole article.

It's a massive laugh and makes the anti-Israel crowd look extremely hypocritical and blinkered, not least because Sodastream going out of business would also mean the loss of a large number of jobs which are well-paid and highly-desired by local Palestinians.

I loved the part at the end where the Brighton branch of Sodastream said that it was perhaps their best-ever day of trading! :)