A boycott against Israeli companies. So what else is new?

September 27, 2006 - 10:48 PM by

Lots of depressing things to report these days (as usual) about the many people and organizations who choose to vilify Israel for its actions without considering or even mentioning the broader context of our situation. The UN, Amnesty International, individual politicians around the world . . . even for the many Israelis who sometimes or often criticize their own country for the way it handles certain situations, it is difficult to escape the evidence that a lot of people out there hate Israel completely out of proportion to any of Israel’s actual wrongdoings.

The double standards in particular make one consider pulling out one’s hair. And, I know for myself, it’s especially angering when Europeans point fingers at Israel and accuse us of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the like, accusations which are obviously gross exaggerations and lies, and painfully ironic coming from people whose countries tried to perpetrate a “Final Solution” against the Jews not so very long ago.

So it was not surprising to learn that yet one more group out there has decided to boycott Israeli products, this time a Belgian hi-tech company.

Avner, an Israeli businessman specializing in product management and consulting approached a Belgian company in hopes of business cooperation.
The company, U2U, refused to cooperate with the Israeli businessman because of what they called “Israel’s war crimes and apartheid regime.”

U2U manager Wim Yotrasprot wrote in a statement to Avner obtained by Ynet that “I appreciate your interest in my company, but after the devastating and inhumane war crimes Israel perpetrated in Lebanon, and because of the apartheid regime it rules on Palestine, U2U does not wish to tie itself with Israeli products.”

That’s rich, coming from someone whose country spilled so much blood in the Congo, without even having any rockets raining on their cities or suicide bombers as an excuse. But anyway . . .

The part I found most damnable in U2U’s letter was the line saying “I hope that the political situation in your country will radically change and will be based on peace and respect to non-Jewish cultures.” In the entire Middle East, the ONLY place where the government goes out of its way to protect both churches and mosques is Israel. In fact, many Israelis complain that Muslims receive MORE protection by Israeli police in order to practice their religion than the religious Jews do!

Also, I wonder whether Yotasprot realizes just how many Israeli innovations, including computer chip technology and medications, he uses in his life every day.

But most of all, I wonder whether U2U would have accepted the offer had it come from a Muslim state, perhaps one of the many that have murdered millions (not thousands, millions) of people for reasons having nothing to do, at all, with self-defense.

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One Comment on A boycott against Israeli companies. So what else is new?

  1. David on Thu, Sep 28th 2006 1:29 AM

    2. Europe is in the process of being Islamified. “Eurabia” is heading in a direction that will ultimately change its entire nature.

    Justice in the end will be done as a result of the actions of the Europeans themselves.

    Militant Muslims are flocking to Europe in their tens of thousands each year, and there is nothing the Europeans can do about it. France for example already has 10% of its population Muslim – the number is only going to increase.

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