ShortJohnSilver
27th April 2011, 03:43 AM
In London, an Israeli cosmetics company called Ahava, which has factories in the West Bank, got boycotted. After some period of time, the landlord decided not to renew their lease - so they are closing.
(I can't help but think of the info about Israeli cosmetics companies being used as fronts for Mossad as well...)
But what is really hilarious is this woman's take on not just the store, but what happened in the 1930s (no mention of the Jewish boycott against German exports) ... apparently billions upon billions from just the Germans, is not enough reparations .
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-is-with-me.html
During the 1930s, countries across Eastern Europe became increasingly hostile towards their Jewish populations. Aside from anti-Semitic rhetoric coming from the pulpit and the press, generally the first active steps taken against the Jewish community were numerus clausus laws (law regulating the number of Jewish students allowed in schools) and boycotts of Jewish owned businesses. These movements, combined with a turbulent economy led to the pauperization of many Jewish communities. However restrictions on education and economic isolation were not enough to satisfy the anti-Semitic fever sweeping the region, and so they were followed by the removal of Jews from public service, medical and legal professions, some beatings, some killings, a pogrom here, a pogrom there, the complete and utter delegitimizing of the Jew’s right to exist, and six million Jews starved, shot, gassed, burned, beaten, and suffocated to death. Their neighbours were not there to help them, in many cases their neighbours were more than willing to round Jews up and lock them in a burning barn or hand them over to the local police; the Jews were bringing the whole neighbourhood down and something had to be done.
After the Shoah public anti-Semitism was not so stylish, but it still existed, it was just undercover. Europe did not and for the most part still does not want to talk about the Shoah. Sure some monuments have gone up here and there, a nice token to remember those dead Jews, and a rather sanitized Holocaust curriculum is taught in some countries, but for the most part it is a blip on Europe’s collective memory.
Note that JBIG (mentioned in the article) is an organization whose full name is "Jews Boycott Israeli Goods" .
Full text of the "hateful" circulars handed out are here:
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2009/09/ahava-targeted-by-anti-israel-groups.html
You can't be 'soothed and smoothed' by Ahava's creams and cosmetics. They are produced by a firm complicit in the theft of Palestinian land and livelihoods. Ahava is an Israeli company with a factory and visitor centre in Mitzpe Shalem near the Dead Sea. This is one of the illegal Iraeli settlements in the occuped Palestinian West Bank. Since 1967 Israel has moved over 260,000 settlers into the Occupied Palestinian Territories, flouting international law and dozens of UN resolutions, and forcing Palestinians off their land."
None of these posts question whether it is accurate or not...
there is no rebuttal because
1. it is not possible to rebut accurate statements
2. charging people with Anti-Semitism is the routine way to deal with such issues
(I can't help but think of the info about Israeli cosmetics companies being used as fronts for Mossad as well...)
But what is really hilarious is this woman's take on not just the store, but what happened in the 1930s (no mention of the Jewish boycott against German exports) ... apparently billions upon billions from just the Germans, is not enough reparations .
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-is-with-me.html
During the 1930s, countries across Eastern Europe became increasingly hostile towards their Jewish populations. Aside from anti-Semitic rhetoric coming from the pulpit and the press, generally the first active steps taken against the Jewish community were numerus clausus laws (law regulating the number of Jewish students allowed in schools) and boycotts of Jewish owned businesses. These movements, combined with a turbulent economy led to the pauperization of many Jewish communities. However restrictions on education and economic isolation were not enough to satisfy the anti-Semitic fever sweeping the region, and so they were followed by the removal of Jews from public service, medical and legal professions, some beatings, some killings, a pogrom here, a pogrom there, the complete and utter delegitimizing of the Jew’s right to exist, and six million Jews starved, shot, gassed, burned, beaten, and suffocated to death. Their neighbours were not there to help them, in many cases their neighbours were more than willing to round Jews up and lock them in a burning barn or hand them over to the local police; the Jews were bringing the whole neighbourhood down and something had to be done.
After the Shoah public anti-Semitism was not so stylish, but it still existed, it was just undercover. Europe did not and for the most part still does not want to talk about the Shoah. Sure some monuments have gone up here and there, a nice token to remember those dead Jews, and a rather sanitized Holocaust curriculum is taught in some countries, but for the most part it is a blip on Europe’s collective memory.
Note that JBIG (mentioned in the article) is an organization whose full name is "Jews Boycott Israeli Goods" .
Full text of the "hateful" circulars handed out are here:
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2009/09/ahava-targeted-by-anti-israel-groups.html
You can't be 'soothed and smoothed' by Ahava's creams and cosmetics. They are produced by a firm complicit in the theft of Palestinian land and livelihoods. Ahava is an Israeli company with a factory and visitor centre in Mitzpe Shalem near the Dead Sea. This is one of the illegal Iraeli settlements in the occuped Palestinian West Bank. Since 1967 Israel has moved over 260,000 settlers into the Occupied Palestinian Territories, flouting international law and dozens of UN resolutions, and forcing Palestinians off their land."
None of these posts question whether it is accurate or not...
there is no rebuttal because
1. it is not possible to rebut accurate statements
2. charging people with Anti-Semitism is the routine way to deal with such issues