Major British workers' union joins moves to boycott Israel

If it were only that simple. As for our 'choseness' it does not mean we feel superior. Actually it makes are life harder. We have 613 commandments to Gentiles 10. What were we chosen for? We were chosen to recieve Torah. It wasn't like the rest of the world was not asked, but no one else wanted it. What does it mean to be chosen? Am I superior to you? Does G-d love me more? The answers to both questions are no. I am chosen to live my life morally and with good ethics. In our religion, The righteous of all nations go to heaven, so you do not have to be Jewish to go to heaven. As far as Jews feeling superior? You can't tell me you know what all Jews feel. I wish you could feel for one day what it is like to face anti-semitism or be judged simply because you are Jewish. I hope your heart will soften and heal because you cannot lump a whole people together and say 'all Jews'. We are all different and we are not a race. We are a religion, so we have Chinese, Indian, Mexican Jews Etc.

I will never boycott Israeli goods, especially the high-technology burning and torturing equipement which is the pride of human race. Shame on people who have no guts to burn and bury alive people as well tearing little children apart. And if someone is threatening to survive your treatement you have in your infinite wisdom created a nice little instant cancer... and so on, marvelous. Yours, Marquis de Sade

Because, if you're using Intel chips in your computer you need to turn it off and throw it away. You claim to support the "boycott", but the mainline Intel PC chips were developed over here.

How can most of you not understand this? I think its a beautiful thing. Its a shame innocent good Israelis will suffer due to its corrupt political regime,and its horrifying military tactics. Killing children,bulldozing Palestinian homes,murdering innocent whole FAMILIES of Palestinians; its about time the world started fighting back against war criminals. Sharon,Netenyahu,Guerin,all war criminals with massive blood on their hands. For those who dont understand why this boycott is occurring, there you go, do the research. Unfortunately,the boycott wont do much harm, the United States still gives Israel about 8 million dollars of AID per HOUR. Feast on that,obedient sheep.

It is good to know that there is still a sense of justice and compassion in people's heart. Hats off to British union workers!

The Transport and General Workers' Union has taken a very audacious and bold decision. Hopefully, they can convince the rank and file of their membership to uphold and enforce the guidelines of the boycott. Ideally other groups around the world will follow and there will finally be signficant pressure placed on the Israeli government to change its tragic and ultimately futile policies. Of course, none of this has to happen. The Israeli people can simply admit their government's role in the forced removal of thousands of arab families. The Israeli people can actively seek the rapatriation of these individuals and their descendants to their ancestral homes. Will this mean the end of Israel? No. It will mean the re-birth of an Israel that finally adheres to its most cherished values. The Palestinians are not a threat, but the continued theft of Palestinain land and the continued denial of that theft is a cancer that will destroy Israel faster than any Iranian bomb or British boycott.

We ask for it.This should be a wake up call for our actions. We need to change and treat the Palestinian as human rather than animals

Is there anything going on in the world besides Israel? I'm thinking of countries of similar size, say Denmark, Uruguay, New Zealand... I've cancelled my subscription to the New Republic because practically every page was about Jews, something Jewish, Israeli movies, books. I'm now viewing the Weather Channel.

any country that has so many UN resolutions against it for human rights abuses should be boycotted. this has nothing to do with anti semitism but all to do with justice.i can,t believe that a people who were so badly abused could do the same to others and think it is ok

These unions should log on to this Israeli site(ISRAEL21c) showing Israeli new inventions,these inventions are going to change their future lives. Israeli brains and innovations at their best. All that was achieved by these unions boycotts is that it showed how immature, silly and useless they are.

The double faced english snakes are already tasting the results of their brownosing the moslem islamofacists...The buses bombed in mid london,the bombs in the tube trains,the attempts At the airpot in scotland and the two failed carbombs in london,are only the tip of the iceberg...They w'll pay a hefty price,for siding with their moslem friends against Israel...england is lowerign itself into the muck...what a shame...

lost in the hoopla of the Arab-Israeli conflict and all the sideshows that have resulted from it is one interesting fact: that Muslims and Jews have historically gotten along rather well. when the Moors ruled Muslims and Jews cooperated. but when the forces of the West came they both were driven out. in the Muslim city of Grozny there was a neighborhood of 800 Jewish families that lived peacably with their neighbors. but when the Russians decided to destroy the city it was over for everyone. Jewish leaders in the Muslim republic of Uzbekhistan report that they feel welcome. and also forgotten is that Arabs and Jews coexisted in Palestine for centuries. this only changed with the events of 1948, which were precipitated by other events that took place in Europe. and it also is worth noting that Arabic and Hebrew are what is known as Semitic languages, meaning that the verb has a three letter root. and people who are related linguistically are also related ethnically.

products, because Israeli companies continue to misleadingly label products made in the settlements as simply "Made in Israel", a practice they are supposed to have ceased under the terms of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Chains like Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys and Argos all stock "Made in Israel" products that actually come from the Territories, so a British consumer is denied the opportunity to make an informed choice to support Israeli companies that operate within Israel proper, rather than those in the OPT. The effect of the Israeli companies' cheating the Assoc Agreement is that the only way a British consumer can be sure his or her money doesn't support illegal settlements is to steer clear of everything labeled "Made in Israel", even those products that might be legitimate.

Completely agree! Remember the Liberty! Remember Rachel Corrie!

I believe in the separation of church and state. Any nation that bases its ideology on a religion is just backwards. The Jew and the Arab are ONE RACE: Human. There can be no freedom for anyone in this world until religious hooey is laid to waste. BTW I am not anti-semitic. I believe the ants in my sink are equal to me. All life is equal. The military industrial complex, the War Profiteers, just love Israel and its conflict in the Middle East. War is wrong, unless you believe in barbarism. The defenders and the offenders are equally GUILTY. God is Love. God is NEVER war.

Their ingnorance is breathtaking. And I'm sure that most members in this union still wear clothess manufactured in sweatshops where children work in inhumane conditions for almost slave wages. Are they planning to boycott the countries that produce those clothes? I still don't hear of any British unions boycotting Saudi oil, despite the lack of freedom for women in that country. Despite its ban on Christian worship, and its rule of not permitting Jews on Saudi soil.

those who distort history that the war with Egypt was one of preemption. Your generals in charge at that time admits Jews attacked. So what are you saying? What about international law which forbids the acquisition of territory in this manner? Oh, I forgot, you guys only tout the UN when you want something, other than that it is ignored if it doesn't fit with the program. Say, did your mom and those rabbis you tout for teaching folks about Jewish history ever tell you that you cannot kill an idea or the longing of a people to be free? I do believe history has shown that you can kill all the folks you want, however, what has happened to the Pals and their children will forever be burned on their hearts, just like you and yours frequent referral to the holocaust. You will not kill off all the Pals, nope, you cannot. For every 1 killed, 10 are born with "theft" and "murder" by invaders in their hearts. Better find a new way. Regards.

I've always enjoyed your well reasoned post and I see this one holds nothing back. Tell them how you feel without euphemisms. I discovered Haaretz through Yahoo, where there is usually a provacative article or two on the main Yahoo and when you click it on to read the provacative article from Haaretz, you discover their blog, which I guess is their intent. Keep blogging. Regards.

It's really frustrating to conclude that terror and concrete terror threats brings people in the arms of these ranges of ideas of crazy intelligent muslim fundamentalists!

A month after UK doctors call for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association a group of Muslim doctors working in the UK (one of them of Palestinian background) try to blow up a Scottish airport. The airport falls into the jurisdiction of the British Transport and General Worker's Union (and their Scottish Chairman Mr McDonald) who reacts immediately by deciding to boycott Israel - Monthy Python couldn't have written a better script!

BTW... AMD CPUs are manufactured in Dresden. Are you going to regard them as German products?

Dont get excited. These idiots led by the old Kinnock the corupt Mining chief [ At the hight of his days i saw him, wife and secretary clud with expensive fur coats and buying Duty free stuff in vienna airport - who pai for it??] and the Livingstone of this world!! I stpped buying UK goods, this morning caneclling the order for my new Jag and wait, American jews will galdly boycott UK goods. W@ho will be at the winning end ? And in the final analysis UK Pakis will coninue to threaten UK citizens as always.

Corect me if I`m wrong, but dont US companies get tax deductions if they conduct R&D in Israel? As for computers and software, I think it`s pretty much guarantied that computers and software contain more british "brain power" than Israeli, even with the huge tax deductions. 60 million vs. 6. Anyway no one can live without the greatest norwegian invention of all time. The paperclip.

Through the zillion ways like road blocks, curfews, closures etc Israelis deal a severe blow to the Palestinian education activity and therefore the flourishing the science. Do not start with the parody of arabs can not do science, American universities are full of Palestinians engineers, scientists and doctors. So there is nothing immoral about this boycott.

Given by whom? If you are referring to 1948 UN decision - well, the Israelis accepted this deecision but were attacked by 5 Arab armies and won a bit more. Are you referring to 1967? Well you see, Israel was again threatened and attacked in an unprovoked manner by 3 Arab armies and won some more land. Now what is Israel supposed to do with its gains if nobody is prepared to make peace in exchange for getting them back? WHat you are advocatingis that each time the Arabs attack and Issrael wins some land, we should just give it back and wait for the next round, like a game of shsesh besh- pack up and take it out again next time. Well, each time the Arabs attack Israel loses many precious lives and you least of all have any right to make demands such demands on Israel without first demanding that the Arabs cease their attacks on Israel for starters.

At least he's proud about it. "These moves were made only in Israel`s interest." So Israel's not supposed to make moves in it's interest? Meanwhile, how's giving Arab in Gaza free reign to build a civil society not in their interests? That they chose internecine warfare when they couldn't easily reach Jews to kill is not our fault. "Sharon publicly stated..." that there would be more withdrawals in the WB, so CF lies again. Notice he continues to avoid explaining why he supports the ethnic cleansing of Jews. It's sad that he has no problems with the Pals demanding a land cleansed of Jews while also demanding free right to move to Israel. His hypocrisy knows no bounds, and his chosen monicker of "fool" continues to be accurate.

a day keeps the "doctors" away" But then again....maybe the "doctors" will still not be satisfied and will still blast yr. asses.

I shall be ashamed to be a Briton so long as my people call to boycott the Jewish people. And this is what this call is: an anti-Jewish call.

MICROSOFT SYSTEMS ARE DESIGNED IN ISRAEL

Closing your computer will be much more beneficial to the world, than writing what you write So close your computer and help fight GLOBAL WARMING

"As much as you make not like Ariel Sharon, he was the guy that carried out Israel`s evacuation of settlements in Sinai before peace with Egypt and the 2005 removal of Israelis from Gaza. Those were certainly not anti-Arab moves" These moves were made only in Israel's interest. As far as the Gaza retreat is concerned, Sharon publicly stated at the time that its main purpose was to enable Israel to hold onto the stolen real estate of the West Bank more securely. In that respect it was certainly anti-Arab. As far as Sinai was concerned, Israel didn't fancy unending war with a country as big and powerful as Egypt.

"The British embassy in Israel issued a response Sunday saying "the British government opposes boycotts of any kind." This embassy must be located on the moon or has not heard that its government has been boycotting the Palestinian people of Gaza for the past 1.5 years. They also haven't heard of the British government's boycot of pre-invasion Iraq or the current boycot of Iran. Such blatant lies!

Its time the Israelis knew that the world cannot tolerate their actions any more.

In last Saturday's left-wing Dutch newspaper 'De Volkskrant' a major article speaks of the 'new apartheid' in ... Britain. Many Pakistanis live in complete isolation from the surrounding non-Muslim communities and religions. They go to Asian-only schools, only have Pakistani friends and live in Islam-only parallel societies. This self-chosen apartheid is the breeding ground for terrorism. So whatever Britain does to suck up to the Muslim world, like this boycott call, the next terrorist attack is only one step away... How many 07-07's are needed before you people learn?

Yeah Mr really from new york but really could care less about America. I will continue to patronize sites like Haaretz and will tell others as well. I think this is a great Middle eastern resource and it has shown me a lot about the greed and criminality of the Israeli government. Im glad there are some people there who are also unhappy with whats being done and if it wasnt for these people there would only be people like you out there spreading your disinformation only to benefit your country. people like you Israel firsters could care less about the ramifications your violence and theft produces for others as long as your goal is continued. No I will not buy Israeli Fruit, Software, Electronics , drugs or anything marked with the UPC Code beginning with 729 Keep Your Norton Antivirus and your ZoneAlarm that captures user information. Israel IS a source for hackers and virii producers in the first place. Is it any wonder why you would also have CURES for them as well. DUH.

Well, okay, then what will you do once they boycott us with their oil. I hope you have a bike as you will need one. Regards.

anti Jewish, it is only anti Israeli boycott. Israel is and has been the most important entity in Jewish national life during the 20th and 21st century. To attack the only Jewish state on earth IS to attack the most imprtant symbol and entity of the Jewish people. You have done it before when expelling the whole Jewish population from England. You have done it before, when jailing Jewish men, women, children and the elderly in camps after these people have fled the horror of the mass murder that took place in Europe and denying them the only refuge available to them - in our national homeland. Now you opt to express your cruel attitude towrds the Jewish people once again!!! Shame on you, shame on all of you Britons for promoting such a boycott. But as a people, as a Jewish people we shall survive this one too, as we have survived as a people for the past 4,000 years, long before you came onto the world stage, and we shall be there long after you will have left it.

maybe faster than you think,especially in Europe. People do not like being blown up by Moslem madmen in white coats or any other way. Nor do they like Moslem threats and riots around Europe. How many people killed around the world this week by the Religion of peace(its only Monday)?

All of you boycotters here are only GLOBAL WARMING!!!

all major computer and software companies have large r&d divisions in israel! israel companies also run many bank and other systems all over the world . i repeat turn off your computer and do all of us afavour

Since the boycott of British Academics, I am being 100% convinced that the British and its ladies and gentlemen have been leading the whole EUROPE and western world to the point of NO RETURN against ISRAEL OCCUPATION, no matter what happen on the way (Gaza upheaval, Johnston saga, releaseing of 250 fatah members, further targeted killing by Israel, the wall, settlements, etc). BRAVO British people. Do not let us down, NO MORE, babies.

Everything happen for a reason.It is true that we Israelis are not doing justice to palestinians in west bank and Gaza and the world is watching this barbaric injustice.We always labels anyone who criticise our sinful act as anti semitic.This should stop and face the reality.Just because US tax payers are backing us we should not take ourselves above the law and above GOD.The british started today tomorrow the French will follow.Came on Israel lets watch our superiority attitute.

"Jews have a country of our own". Right you are, however, what is now of world concern is the proposed country of the Pals that you and yours have slurped and squatted on in an attempt to incorporate the same into "our own country". Is this a pep talk? Unless right minded Jews check the zealots who want more than what was given, there will be problems. Regards.

Two of the founding fathers were born in Britain, Davies and Robert Morris. The rest of the 55 were from the colonies. Does that make Davis and Morris British? You are prone to making sweeping absolute statements and calling folks "morons". What's up? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States#Collective_Biography_of_the_Founding_Fathers

please? You must be getting confused with Hamas,the Palestinian covenant and the Fateh covenant and OFFICIAL Islamic media.

Inane inefectual counter-productive and insulting to the intelligence. Unions should be fighting for the best interests of their members for better pay and conditions. How in heavens name boycotting Israeli goods benifit journalists. This is the sort of thing that gives British unions their Loony Left image. These unions have declared their politics very clearly.Sort of like vomit on the front steps after a party..........

Of course ballistic supports the Koranic doctrine of jihad. She is a follower of Farrakhan. I am surprised no one has picked up on that.

by the Palestinians. Boycotts are originating there.

ballistic is a follower of Farrakhan. what else would you expect?

istraelis being upset and angry at the growing calls for boycotts against israel are understandable. have israelis stepped back to try and understand why more and more people..(who supported israel at one time).... are getting turned of by the behaviour of the jewish state? israel has got so used to trashing international opinion.. even if its right... that it thinks it has a birthright to carry on doing whatever it pleases, because they are gods chosen people. israel has painted itself into a corner.. with uncle sam... and worse is yet to come... but do you realise this? apparently no. the palestinians have as much a right as the jews to live a life of dignity... we are all gods children. understand this and maybe israel could find a way out. for starters drop your greed for land... time is not on your side.

Your principles on boycotts are as versatile as your so called championing of human rights.Turn it on and off as it suits your ideological but totally amoral principles.

istraelis being upset and angry at the growing calls for boycotts against israel are understandable. have israelis stepped back to try and understand why more and more people..(who supported israel at one time).... are getting turned of by the behaviour of the jewish state? israel has got so used to trashing international opinion.. even if its right... that it thinks it has a birthright to carry on doing whatever it pleases, because they are gods chosen people. israel has painted itself into a corner.. with uncle sam... and worse is yet to come... but do you realise this? apparently no. the palestinians have as much a right as the jews to live a life of dignity... we are all gods children. understand this and maybe israel could find a way out. for starters drop your greed for land... time is not on your side.

finally somebody is holding israel to the moral standards that they hold the rest of the world to. israel cant expect to survive by killing off its neighbors. if ur going to call urself a "jewish state" then at least live up to ur name. Judaism does not preach hate and murder, but israel does. israel is not a jewish state but a zionist secular state that only calls itself "jewish" so anyone who opposes israel is anti-semitic. jews against israel = real jews~

the US supports Israel's actions 100%; we sell/give her arms, including clusters, hold up sanctions in the UN, blah, blah and therefore any wrong Israel does gets kicked to the only supporter of her. As such, the Arab countries and increasing #s of western countries want the US to take their errant child to task about the horrible mess we have, esp after Iraq and Lebanon. It is not okay that there is murder in Africa, but there is no threat of nukes and there is no chance that East vs West will be in Africa, but in Israel. Hence folks want a solution there and one is needed in Darfur too. I don't advocate murder by anybody. Nuking Iran has zilch to do with Africa, only Israel. BTW, I see today Olmert rejects the refugee Sudanese. Any outcry there or is bringing their plight up an excuse keeping folks from the Pals issues? Regards.

Maybe raising ones children to feel superior is better then raising ones children to think they are inferior and must commit suicide to become superior. You are one sick person.

Anti-semitism always increases in times of trouble in the world. Just look what happened in Europe before WW2. Better watch out folks...

They are certainly the leading practioners of Apartheid in the world today.

Well, that didn't work very well did it? 8 Doctors were ticked off enough to explode. :)

You truly are a moron. None of the "founding fathers" were British. Go read a book.

if you are not bright enough to read it, worse for you.

Keep Israeli citizens safe, yes, but on the land they were given. Those squatters on Pals land with these settlements take their chances in a war zone. Increasing numbers of people don't believe Israel can sustain herself with the occupation, esp as US support in the region wanes. Regards.

All Israel need to do it Boycott the United Kingdom and fight fire with fire. Demand that your government to boycott everything British, it will harm them then it will you. As a Canadian I'm really ashamed that Queen Elizabeth II is our chief of State and is allowing this hate to happen. Israel will win after all God is on your side and will one day judge all the nations that goes against his nation and his chosen people. LONG LIVE ISRAEL ISRAEL FOREVER

I did not say what you suggest at all. Your argument basically was there are messes all over the world, so why is the world focused on our mess, wasn't that it? The world is focused on your mess because of oil, jihad the the maltreatment of the Israeli government of the Pals. Throw in advocates for whacking Iran and you come full circle. You may say it is antisemitism to focus, but I would argue that anyone saying that looks at the issue very narrowly. The issue is the continual slurping and squatting on Pal land. As for me, I am not a violent person; never had a fist fight in my life. However, I do advocate justice and I don't believe taking extra land from the Pals to give to Jews is justice in this case. The Pals had zip to do with your troubles so why punish them? US/Israel are hard pressed to sell 'democracy' based on what Arabs have seen of it over there. Regards.

all pentium chips are invented-designed in israel and not - not - in USA. the same with motorola, HP and many many others.

you should treat the guy nicely, to sever some limbs only but not to kill as real peaceloving muslims.

I understand and anticipated a response such as yours (you mean to say that Israeli Zionists stole Palestinians' land, and even the wealthy Arab nations should not be obligated to redress the wrongs committed - do I have this right?). You must understand that we have only a little space here to address serious problems. I did not write that the wealthy Arab nations had an OBLIGATION to make Palestinians' lives more worthwhile, pending a final political settlement - only that doing so would be more consistent with loud and peristent claims to be some of the most religious people in the world. And I do believe in a settlement of some kind, so that generations do not have to watch their children and grandchildren grow up, and die, in desert tents. And I support Jewish Israeli statehood. And I think we have just run out of room here.

need to identify Israeli products so they can specifically buy them as opposed to say Arab technology. By the way there is more than computer chips made by Israel You are of course still here,Haaretz is an Israeli product,be consistent or be a joke

The Brits finally got something right. I believe anything with bar code 729 comes from Israel and I will avoid like the plague. After Israel showed its criminal brutal nature last summer in the Lebanon war (which they lost) I stand behind boycotting Israeli products. Let me break the news to you boys and girls - The world can get by just fine without Israeli products. Innovation and science is not limited to Israel- Reading this post you might that the rest of the world are full of blundering idiots looking to Israel for enlightenment - such a joke The fact of the matter is that Israel panders to the western democracy for arms, financial support and protection. Israel needs the USA and Britiannot the other way around . Feel free to America the billons we wasted supporting and arming Israel. Typical Israeli arrogance

I don't believe that the leaders of any organization or government should organize and/or recommend boycotts. Collective boycotts interfere with 'individual freedom' and 'free markets'. But let's not forget that Palestinian is Occupied and Under Siege, thereby creating the equivalence of a 'boycott'. I don't see too many the pro-Israeli government posters complaining about that. As for the cries of antisemitism, which surely exists, I find an enormous abundance of anti-Arab sentiment in the Ha'aretz posts.

So I'll assume none of the young children of these workers will be recieving their childhood immunisations? And I'll also assume none of these workers will make use of the internet connections?

Besides, once the UK is shrouded under the darkness of Sharia law, they will all be powerless to do anything anywhere anymore.

It is amazing that you fall back on spelling and grammer to give arrogant exploitation of arab peoples credability - its all to typical. Do you feel better about suppoting the illegal occupation now big boy. You are so tough arnt you - clown The fact is that Israel annexed the palestian lands - that is the truth - why is it that the Israeli government will reimburse any palestianian that prsents a land title to land they formally had in Israel ? Oh thats right Israel is such a kind democratic state - always bending over backwards to rationalize the criminal behavior of its citizens and military. Hey I concede that I need to use spell check but I will take that over dropping cluster bombs on civilian populations You are all so smart - enjoy your vacation on stolen land but remember time waits for no one and Israels time has come and gone Einstein

The perception that like many boycotts it will pass are ignoring the racial overtones & the attacks on Jewish owned businesses. Most of the Language is antisemitics & suggests that the people are trying to attack Jewish owned businesses regardless of doing business with Israel or not. Ironically this boycott has some support among the Jewish community.

Burn crosses?? Linch people of collor??? At least, this is how you sound when it comes to jews.

Discriminatory, selective, racist actions of UK demagogues is continuation of European policies towards Jewish people. Nothing else can be expected from that bunch, brainwashed by Islamo-fascist pandering BBC and Guardian. Jews have been driven out from Europe and Middle East, only to be allowed a temporary "ghetto state", and condemned for having the strength and the caraurage to respond to Arab and Islamist aggression. Israel is condemned, while hundreds of thousands are butchered by Arabs in Sudan, and the "moral" world is busy looking the other way...

Look out Britian there will probably be more of those nasty old "terrorist" attacks upon your people. You know those islamofacitis hate it when you side with them/pals and seek to blow up anything that is antisemtic. ;) Those terrorist seem so predictable

I am not supporting any killing by anyone, howevfer the Israeli army has a duty to keep their citizens (Whoare not only Jewish but also Moslem and Christians as well) safe. IfIsrael is not attacked there will be no need to protect Israel and no killing by IDF. However the Moslems have been killing each other as well as none Moslems for centuries. Look at Iraq today; Sunni killing Shia or the other way. Look at the history of the Ottomam empire when they were conquring the west just to spread Islam.

Just a couple of more years...

I like how morons like Natallie have completely forgotten the occupation of Ireland. England has committed vast human rights violations, including but not limited to the execution and torture of POWs. On top of all that England didn't even face 1% of the barbarousness exhibited by the Palis. But of course idiot Natallie wont say a peep about that. She will defend the people who kill school children on crowded buses. Rationale doesn't fit into her antisemitic agenda.

You say that since Sudan is not using USA arms to kill the poorest people in the world because they are not Moslem it is ok. As many radical Islamists believe one who is not a Moslem does not have the protection of GOD therefore can be killed. You are basically supporting this Koranic doctrine in your post which is totally inhumane and barbaric.

your loss buy what you want, but you patronize Haaretz's website and earn them advertising money. Why don't you stop and read and post on some palestinian and lebanese websites - no one will miss you.

When the Muslim takeover of Britain is complete, they will see what a terrible mistake they have made. Then we will laugh at them and say 'I told you so.'

History has shown more than once that when the world is under stress the Jews become targets and are blamed for all sorts of things. It's part fear and denial (this can't really be happening to us - let's just blame the Jews and it will all go away) and partly ingrained anti-Semitism, and ilness that has unfortunately not been erased. Jews have always been easy targets because they never fought back. Now we are fighting back - and it's maddening. How dare we! Well stuff the world and all those pompous self-righteous idiots seeking our destruction once again. This time if and when we go down, we take the lot with us - I say. 18 members of my immediate family were murdered by Jew haters for being Jewish. The Europeans thought it would solve all their woes. Well, now they have far greater and more extreme woes, ad again they're blaming us instead of dealing with them head on. If only Israel did this or that. I say - if only Israel had one day of not being attacked.

no intel, ICQ, msn, skype, windows, CT, drugs etc. israel have more- many more as a fact- patents than idiotic lazy primitive british, go to full boycotte cretins and move please to 1960th. viva boycotte. we give you much more than we can ever expect from you.

"It is an interesting phenomenon that particularly Anglo countries are more inclined to have GROUPS which support economic and/or cultural boycott of Israel" - Tosefta "it is not the countries, but the unions Do not mislead." - Cipora JK It will be a good idea for you to get some fresh brine in the barrel. The old stuff seems to have lost its potency. Dipping your head in the brine for 1 hour each day will keep your mind sharper. And please, don't forget to use a snorkel.

The large blocs Israel intends keeping are on the border, so border adjustments can easily be made - I don't think that is the problem. And it's Bantustans - which is a word you've all adopted but have no idea what they really are. Absolutely no resemblence.

Please go to Israel and feel it yourself and I will see if your comment will remain the same. All your comment is coming from the biased publication from BBC, CNN etc. and based on these you conclude it. I think it is better to give a second chance to see if you comment is truthful by first visiting israel especially in sderot. Hope your trip is safe

Hi Danilo, You hv got friend from Gaza. He invites you. I suppose you will never be scared of being kidnapped over there. The challenge is... you have been talking too much bullshit...please show us by visiting your friend in Gaza and i will see you photo will be in Aljajeera with an explosive belt around your body. Please go and show your absolute support

1. Have you ever traveled to the Middle East, specifically Israel, Gaza or The West Bank? 2. Are you anti-semetic?

It looks to me there are a few types of people in Britain now. 1. Those who have been influenced by Islamic spread in the UK thus these people are the one antisemite. 2. Those who do not much about anything but the propaganda of world news, publication to undermine Israel. Thus these people tend to buy what they read and thought it was the fact or the truth. The sin will be on the journalists. 3. Those who know the history but they are just minority so they cant voice anything. They actually can see where Britain is heading since the Islamic growth in UK is so fast. Radical islam with some military training in Uk is established. The wish to make Islamic Sharia Law is just a matter of time before it control the whole country. Their target is to be part of the BIG 5 OF UN PERMAMENT SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBER by controlling UK. France last year has got 5 millions moslem and the lives in France is not safe anymore. netherland, Van Gogh was slaughtered. australia, new zeland, Indonesia etc

That Sharon "carried out" the evacuations is aeuphemistic way of your politely saying he killed a lot of the Palestinians and ran them from their homes as soon as he arrived. I do believe he was charged with something or another for killing up folks, or causing folks to be killed, yet he is a hero over there. Bush calls him a man of peace. What does God think about it, well, I don't know because he hovers between life and death; Catholic would call it purgatory, while he discusses with God his life and all he did. No, the water level at Lake Mead has not risen; it is at a critically low level and is expected to remain so. Thanks for the post. Regards.

Maybe britan can return all the computer chips made in Israel, all the cell phone parts, and after all wouldn't want any Israeli Medical equipment saving your sorry british asses. So all this equipment back. Yes the sun does set on the britsh empire.

and that's where the anger needs to be directed. The usual Israel bashers here who are mostly from Socialist Europe should give you an idea just how insignificant this lot really is ... fairly dimwitted and prone to repeating their typical Islamist/Leftist lines over and over and over with all the usual misused jargon ie "apartheid" "land grab" "genocide" "ethnic cleansing" blah blah and in the end no one really bothers with this group as much as we do right here at Haaretz. Many here are using three and four different names.

I see this happening at our Universities as well. York U. is a hotbed for the preaching of radical islam. Unfortunately Jews take the moral highroad. islamists indoctrinate any brainwash these young minds. I have personally watched a young hindu, my ward for his time in Canada, change into a radical I did not even recognize. I called his parents in India, and they came to Canada immediately, and took him home.

Gotta admire the british focus. Even when the Islamists are at their throats, the evil Jews are still enemy number 1. That is exactly the sort of logic that dooms European civilization. They cannot seem to enter the modern age where there are other threats to be dealt with, many real not just percieved, besides the old demonic Jews. Their inability to adapt to a changing world, as the muslim birthrate explodes (pardon the pun) within their borders, is an act of cultural suicide. I hope their hatred of Jews warms them as the last embers of 2000 years of Christian europe come to a final demise. I hope the Jews have an easier time with a muslim Europe. Frankly, it couldn't be any worse.

Oh jeez as though every computer is using the Israeli designed chip from Intel. I only buy AMD CPU's for my computers ever since the Lebanon war. No I will not support a country like Israel so that they can further purchase more destructive weapons and make more Weapons of Mass Destruction. Cease the practice of stealing Palestinian property and killing innocent Palestinian/Lebanese people. I do not purchase Israeli Products Nothing with a 729 UPC Barcode

Boycott Britain. Cost that country of anti semites obs. Globally we have power. Let us use it.

Perhaps the Brit unions and their Neocomm buddies would be happier if the IAF /IDF leveled Gaza and the W Bank making them both uninhabitable thus ending the terror that emanates from both and allowing Israel the ability to withdraw with the knowledge that all or most of the rocketeers, suicide bombers and other various miscreants were either dead or close to it. They could use the Russian model vis a vis Chechnya and just make all the "Palestinian" territory resemble a lunar landscape. The Left would have to invent an occupation if it didn't exist.

The truth is that the Jews have been on this littoral plain for a very, very long time. The truth is regardless of what want to believe, or attempt to spuriously deconstruct, that history has been embedded in the soul of the Jewish People, indeed in their very DNA. Now as to this blog's main thread, The truth is that British Labour Unions are impotent, this last call for embargo is a declaritive statement not a mandate. The Empire has gone and sunk, and taken the unions with it many decades ago. In fact the unions are very much to blame for that very capsizing. I mean an average of 2000 strikes a year from the end of WW2 up till the end of the 20th century... Unionism itself is indeed becoming less and less a vital political force over the globe as incomes rise. And last but not least the truth is that you are a very callous person, a marginal sideliner who has no real understanding about what is happening here, and that your pomposity is exceed only by your blind hatred of the truth.

"Far prefer to endure another 40years of misery and hardship."ChanahS Sorry ChanahS..the world is not going to put up with this bullshit for another 40years,thats why a boycott and other actions of non-violence is needed to help settle this long festering scab.

Boycott israel==WONDERFUL Next time there is a bomb or airport terrorism maybe build a wall and of course boycott anything arabic.That the nodern idiotic brit.SORRY was british will soon be islamstan. maybe island of islam.no small islam??well carry on the botcott It suits the brits They have nothing else to do,Always boycotting.

Europe exchanged 6 million innocent non-violent Jews (soon to raised to 9mill) for 20 million hateful Islamists. What happened with the enlightened Germany, Poland, Czek,& austria so called intellectually advanced peoples became murderers. Read the Koran and u will figure out why Doctors from different countries are killing Brits. U deserve what u are and will get for complicity and aloof to the innocents millions killed. Israelm is fighting an entire religion aimmed at it's death. Once again U like Europe are complicit by directing at innocents instead of your homegrown killers. Reap what u sowed since this is just the beginning weeks after u invoked a boycott of Israel. Look how they just kiiled each others wounded and sick. U and your children should be paid what u deserve for this boycott from G-d. If it is a blessing Amen! if not may u & your children get repayment from your new islamic brothers.get some more doctor terrorists.

Judge: Why did you steal his car? Israeli: Because I wanted it. Judge: You must give it back, and pay a penalty for your crime. Israeli: But that makes no sense. I saw a brown person that speaks his language with 2 cars. Why doesn't he get one from him? Judge: Are you joking? Are you trying to make a mockery of this courtroom? Israeli: I don't understand why I have to give the car back? Why am I being judged by a JewHater? This is not fair? Now Philip, is the defendant in this mock case right?

Most unions have policy committees. Many of these committeees r "controlled" by militants or to say it in more common terms , politically prejudiced and inflexible ideologues. Who r these? Usually marxists and old commies with lose ties to old 3rd Internationale. Put simply: These people want to keep the unions close to the Old Commies politically. Israel has become that issue since the Zionism= Naziism was adapted by the Un thants to their Great Leader--Stalin.Obviously , the unions feel that using anti-Jewish rhetoric seves their politics. They know that antisemitism is an issue that many gentiles can identify with. There boycotts r antisemitism in the dervice of their "proletariat".

who got us into this mess in the first place. I'm sick of paying the price of their Greater Israel dream. End the stupid occupation and the boycott is over before it started.

Gil your post in response to what Labhras points out what Israel is doing, is the reason why a Boycott is needed to help support the Palestinian Arabs cause against the continued land grab. As a Palestinian Jew you would know that Theodor Herzl's claim that Palestine for the Jews runs in the face of the safe guards to protect the non-Jews who also inhabit Palestine and their asperations for self-determination and rights. Under The Balfour Declaration The Administration of Palestine,while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced,this i believe is what Labhras has been pointing out,plus The Gisha Report also describes this prejudice being carried out by the Israeli government.

moslem pressure will not help the free world to confront The terror, moslems inflict.

I hope other unions will do the same. The main boycott is for the American good people to stop US $ aid to israel and to elect a truly genuine American President whose foreign policy would be directed to US interest ONLY and peace. How about banning foreign money allowed in the election campaignm and registering AIPAC as a foreign lobby.

Ur point re primitive Jewish narcissism is well taken. Many Jews have this idea that r the inventors of almost all. But I'm a Jew and am quite well acquainted with science and its leading lights the last 150 yrs. Make no mistake about it , a great deal of modern science and technology is the creation of Jewish men and women. Just like more primitive Christians think of themselves as "the lovers" of humanity so more primitive Jewish souls think themselves "the intellect" of the world. Such r the shortcomings of men.

Yes, the word is out. Jews now have a country of their own. The Jew-haters can choke on it. They can boycott all they want, Israel will remain strong, will remain democratic, and will continue to defend itself. Those that thought that Jews all over will remain quiet in in the face of boycotts, that they will not fight back, were dead wrong.

Jack, I always love to read comments on topics written by people who have a poor command of the language and facts. If you even knew any history you would know that the land in question was in arabs hands from 1948 to 1967, but they didn't allow the palestianians to have any control over it and actually the palestinians were leaving it due to the arab countries making it very difficult for them to be there. It wasn't until Israel captured it asnd started improving it that the Palestinians started returning to it. Oh and by the way. The current governments in the U.S. Britian, France and many other if not most countries of the wrold were invaders who occupied the land illegally by your standards. If you actually look at the population of cities like Jerusalem it had a higher percentage og Jews living there before it was controlled by Israel. The increase in arab population happened after Israel was created and they improved it. BUT hey jack I realize that this is wasted on you

The British are occupying Iraq but why aren't they boycotted too? Why only Israel?! Is it because we use the occupation to transfer our own civilian population into the territory occupied or because the occupation is already 40 years old?! Don't they believe us we want to end it one day?!

What version of the "truth" are you proposing be taught? Come on now, you can't polish the turd of occupation and settlement expansion with any "truth" that you propose be taught.

important to the world economy. Who told you that, your mom? Come on, have coffee, shake your head and realize you are just a tiny spoke in a cob on a very large wheel. You better stop thinking superiority and start thinking survival. Grab the passport and that umbrella, too late for coffee. Catch the peace train, choo, choo. Regards.

That is not what I said and you know it. The issue with you and yours is that is has brought East vs West front and center with the possibility of nukes, according to Madelne Albright. The US sends weapons and money which are used against the Pals in their attempts to keep you and yours from stealing more land. the US will be leaving Iraq; even staunch Repub senators like Lugar are calling for withdrawal. The issue is the continual slurping and squatting of the settlers. Those who dream of historical Israel are doing just that, dreaming. I see Olmert refuses refuge to some Sudanese, mighty benevolent of you guys. In any case, the Pals issue will be settled cause the West is not gonna do without oil, of which you have none. You are surrounding by 1.2b Muslims who do not agree with your treatment of the Pals. They view you as an outsider coming in to treat their insiders badly. You say the Pals have no weapons and I say given what the US sends you it is like Goliah and David!

"Call all critics anti-Semites." Din't you admit that you are an antisemite, and that you would proudly wear any shirt so proclaiming?

These unionists truly have no love for their own country, England, when they commit themselves to set a precedent to which they will be held accountable. Do they wish to give their land to the Palestinians in England? In Sweden, in France, in Spain. These are truly inane and insane and shall I say, as one put it oikophobes of the worst kind.

Ballistic, If nothing else you are at least consistent. As much as you make not like Ariel Sharon, he was the guy that carried out Israel's evacuation of settlements in Sinai before peace with Egypt and the 2005 removal of Israelis from Gaza. Those were certainly not anti-Arab moves. Haven't seen the Arabs ever do anything like that with Israel without a war involved. Hope the water level has risen at bit at Lake Mead. Adam

I almost lost my life on the Mittla Pass in 1956,and I had good friends killed in 1973,and in the terrorists bombings...Are you talking about "natives" of the West Bank?Are calling the Israelis "newcommer settlers"?...If you are a Jew,rush and find yourself a good psychiatrist.But I'm sure tou can only be an islamofacists...Get the hell out of JUDEA AND SAMARIA...Your place is across the River in the "real palestine" that's called jordan...

...in order to appear balanced. But then it turned out that Israel is already taking care of that - for the past 40 years.

China gets oil wherever she can buy it. She may have commercial ties to Israel but has refused to endorse anymore sanctions against Iran. Russia has said the same thing. Don't think for a second that China supports the madness there. She will take what she can get, but when the rubber hits the road, you have no oil to offer, and what US technology you can resell to her is quite limited. She has reversed engineered everything and is the largest investor in the US. In fact, CNN claims the US is paying China interest on our war debt, not to mention her huge advantage in our trade balance. Nope, I wouldn't count on the Chinese if I were you. She is building her arsenals and has a HUGE standing arm. Makes it a tad tough to bully her. Regards.

PLEASEEEEEEEEE Stop blaming the aran world for the illegal immoral and disgraceful occupation - it is a weak argument and no one is buyingit I dont care one bit about what the arba world should do for the Palestianians when the fact of the matter is that YOU Isrealis condone this illegal occupation and sit buy while YOU steal others land - You wanted it now you have it = history and demographics will right this eveli wrong If it makes you feel better about what you did to the palestianians by blaming the arab world for not giving the Plaestianins their land because you stole their homeland then knock yourself out. Keep fooling yourselves while the rest of the world pewks up your zionist hatred. The only group that really support what you are doing is the Buysh admins which is chuck full of bigots and hate mongers much like Israel -

Don't blame Britain , blame the activists who go around universities and Unions inciting hatred of Israel to naive Brits who don't really understand what is going on. The answer: Anyone who really understands the situation in the Middle East must go to the universities and the unions and teach everyone the truth. That is what the antisemites are doing right now and that is what peace loving pro Israel people must do, (not next month, not next week but now).

Research suggests Jews were not the first to worship one God. Who told you that they were? Worshipping the Sun and nature does not automatically make one an idol worshipper. The Egyptians, despite 'idol' worshipping as yo characterize and educating Moses, who in turn gave Hebrews some of that knowledge, were more advanced in many ways than we are today. We still can't figure out how they built the pyramids with accuracy which cannot today be duplicated or had such advanced scientific knowledge, which we still have not replicated. Regards.

Israel should begin with dismantling setllements and stop the growing of them. These settlements has nothing to do with security, you need IAF/IDF/Shin Bett/etc. to get people that launch missiles, it's not the settlets that go after them, do they? Retreat from WB is something completely different then moving settlers out of WB, Israel will then have the same military control over WB as it has now, you are mixing these things but I do not buy that. And these large blocks you mention, they are a bit too large and they are very strategic located. It makes a Bantoestan of WB for Pals, we have seen that trick before. No Israeli government really had the intention to allow a truly viable Pal-state, including Kadima. Bantoestan will not work, Israel's old friend South-Africa (when under apartheud-regime )made that mistake too.

They can be traded for a peace. Gaza example shows that it should be traded.

The BBC Middle East office wants to boycott Israel yet they remain in Jerusalem. Please go live in another ME city. Amazingly silly these Brits. In the last year 2 yrs they have had internal attacks by domestic and foreign born individuals. You know the ones that follow the "peace loving religion" The cancer is growing within the country and they only see bad Israel. They refuse to see the Israeli point of view. They never once pushed to have Arafat or his cronies since his death to force a peace deal. They only know how to suck up to the followers of the peaceful religion. They say hit me again and we'll put more pressure on Israel. Meanwhile the cancer grows.

Who would suffer more, isreal or the UK between a mutual boycott ?? I think Isreal will come off worst. Don't even go there. For example isreal would not last 6 months without US support. The UK can go on indefinetly.

"...territory populated with hostile people who don`t want to live in peace with their neighbors. So occupation is an only way even though nobody likes it." [Bruce] If the people are so hostile then why in hell all the settlements on their land?! I could understand a purely military occupation out of security concern. Unfortunately, the occupation has become the 'only way' to steal more land and I don't think that 'nobody likes it'.

Yes Chris we all know your song. The brits have invented everything. It is really too bad that they can't produce anything.

ENJOY IT ALL OF YOU SUCKERS OOOPS!!LANGUAGE!

are irrelevant even in Britain. Having no more clout to defend the interests of british workers they try to make headlines by meddling in international affairs. They doomed themselves in the eyes of the british people by catering to organized crime in the 70s and 80s, and they are doing it again today by catering to the islamo-fascists. Think about it 800,000 members in a country of ~ 50 millions is absolutely nothing.

The majority of Brits are a cold people with no soul, bad teeth, and can't cook. Oh, they also screwed up most of the countries they colonized, de-meaned indiginous peoples around the world. Who cares about these anti-semites anyway.

To all who are jumping up and down. Nothing is being said either at the BBC,nor by the Prime Minister Mr.Brown.

Do not have the time to consider boycotting Israel. They are too busy trying to slaughter their own co-citizens.

In late 2006 it was exposed that the TGWU leadership played a role in support of arms company BAE Systems (for whom many TGWU members work) in their attempt to improperly compel the suspension of the Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE's slush fund operations and corrupt dealings with Saudi officials. This foolish boycott attempt is the leadership's effort to divert rank and file attention from their own corruption. But, corrupt leaders can't wash themselves clean in this manner. They must go.

Tosefta It is all a big drama by Haaretz.I have been watching the news,and the only thing of concern by the new Prime Minister is about the increase vigilamce and making certain about combining forces on the terror subject.No mention wahtever of "boycots" or anything.Everyhing is always blown out of proportion here at Haaretz. Don't you find it strange why?And with all the so-called boycots that have been applied and no substance whatever transpired as a result. HEY WAKE UP EVERYBODY IT IS THE USUAL HOAXY MOXY..

The decision made by Israel to create the settlerstate on the WB with an Apartheid-like system implemented on Pals is Israel's doom in the future if this is not turned around.

you may have the right to express what you did, but better remember that you may end asking to boycott the whole world, when the whole world would have already boycotted you.Your biggest mistake, is that you think and believe that the world needs you, while you do not need no body.... Your arrogance will doom your very existence, IF you do not wake up and better wake up soon.

These British union mopes would be unemployed if they did not have the unions to protect them and permit them to do as little as possible for as much pay as they can squeeze out of the employers. Unions are a leftover anachronism from Victorian England. So is the thinking process of their members and who gives a damn what they think. It hasn't been relevant for two hundred years. The only place most of these characters are capable of finding on a map is their local pub and as Israel doesn't make warm, watery beer, it has little to fear from a union boycott of Israeli products.

and anti-semitic from has beens and never to be. I would not even answer your comments. No truth to any of them. Boy are you guys wrong and off the track and off your trolley.

The Mexicans are returning in great numbers and without war or nukes. I have no problem with it. The only land belonging to Israel is what was given, and she has taken more than she was given. How do I feel if the Indians want back America? Well, say, how would you react if you had to leave your cushy USA home to give back to the Indians what they owned only a few hundred, not thousands, years ago? The non-Muslim country has quite a history in the Muslim world, rather unsavory starting with Mr. Sharon and his gang practicing terrorism against the Pals and the British. Regards.

Does not mean we think we are superior or better. Means we are the first to practice monotheism and to follow one G-d. G-d is a concept of a transcendental being that no religion practiced before Judaism. People were worshipping idols and the sun and nature, mythology.

You say Zionism is not a dirty word. Unfortunately, there appears to be several layers of meanings for the same. If you are talking about what the Zionist government has and is doing to the Pals, then it is a dirty word. If you are talking about defining Zionism as Jewish aspiration for a homeland (what was given), then I agree. Zionism in its benign form has been highjacked by the zealots, which, in my opinion, include you and turned into something ugly including theft, occupation, apartheid, murder and a perpetural cry by you and those agreeing with you that you are a victim rather than the perpetrator. Some of the virulently radical Muslims have hijacked their religion too, but they are certainly not alone. Where are the moderates and reasonable folks on both sides? Regards.

in Israel, but she considers herself an expert in Zionism, History of Jewish People. Durson based her attitude on postings of Clickfool, "Dutch", so-called Hannah, Australian VIPER, Maureen Ann. They also din't live in Israel. What a shameful bunch of experts.

Having lived in two countries, the Bahamas and Ireland, which suffered under British Colonialism; the British reaction to an "occupation" is terrible slanted by their own "bad" behavior around the world. It is their way of saying "we were not really that bad, and now we are good." Their "unconscious" analogy between themselves and Israelis is intellectually and morally inept as was their treatment of the Bahamians and the Irish.

The current government in Israel was voted in on a platform of withdrawal from the west bank and the dismantling of settlements, except for large blocs for which the Palestinians would be compensated with other land. Some even suggested that Israel Arab towns on the border would also be part of Palestine (but the Arab residents strongly protested - I wonder why). The fact that withdarwal from Gaza resulted in Gaza becoming a huge launching pad of missiles into Israel, would it be reasonable for Israel to withdraw without further without guarantees? And yes, we are fighting Islamic terror every single day.

Why doesn't Israel? Israelis seem so interested in Darfur, why haven't they lobbied their country's leaders to intervene militarily or economically?

Srange, it seems you are trying to talk reason into the Labhras. I don't believe he needs one. I read a couple of his tirrads, and I got the point. If he is a pal from Ireland, which is more likely, than that what he believes in. If he is trully Irish, than its beyond me, why he waistes time, instead of drinking wisky and be drown in it. Regards, and all the best.

Zionist colonization? Can you please explain this concept? Usually colonization occurs when a "mother" country colonizes other country ususally to take advantage of its natral resources, you know, like your country did for centuries in Africa and Asia. So where is this "mother country" that is colonizing Palestine?

40 year boycott of Palestinians? What the heck are you talking about? Do you actually know anything of the history of this conflict, or did you just decide to try be part of a big people's forum. How old are you? Almost 13?

no more gin, vacations, liberty scarves. No more King Oscar sardines. No more, no more.

Aren't 40 years enough yet?! Except some Jewish extremists everyone wants to see an end of this hateful occupation. What are you waiting for? More boycotts or that the Palestinians turn into Finns?!

Ishmael your kind came uninvited to Jerusalem and Israel back in history, you killed anyone at your liking, you desecrated the most holy jewish place by building a mosque at that exact position. Still you are treated kindly, even generously in the land today once it is governed by its rightful owners again.

1) I admitted nothing of the sort- Israel has for the past 15 years (in addition to directly after the 6 day war) offered lands back in exchange for true peace, despite the fact that many in Israel believe that these are Jewish lands. So far there have been no takers because they want ALL of it or nothing. Establishing a state in the areas conquered in 1967 would remove Hamas's and the Palestinian strongmen's raison d'etre, and we can't have that now, can we? 2) What does all this have to do with South Africa? How many times do I have to repeat that the boycotts had far less to do with the change there than the actions of Afrikaner intellectuals, the children of the very founders of Apartheid. 2)And no, I haven't heard. Since when and by whom? Those are still Israel's basic demands. Your knowledge and understanding of processes both in SA and Israel is equally dismal, but then you have to pat yourself on the back for something, I suppose. Never mind that it is at the expense of others

In short, if the occupation of Palestine must end where should Jews live? Do you think they will through themselfs into the sea?

Nobody is keeping you here in Israel. You are fre to go and live as free people in any of our neighboring Arab democracies. Please, feel free to do so.

Occupation is wrong but who's to blame for it? PA is not overseas colony, it is adjoining territory populated with hostile people who don't want to live in peace with their neighbors. So occupation is an only way even though nobody likes it.

Is your second name Adolph by any chance? You sure are a decent chap and soooooo knowledgeable. Jews are being used to control oil? And how did you work that one out? And yes you are right - nobody wanted us. That's why we need, have and love Israel- so that none of you Europeans would ever have to suffer us again. Now all yo have to suffer are the millions of Muslims taking over your countries. Well, good for you. And by the way, China and Israel have very good relations, both cultural and commercial. They are getting their oil from Africa, not the Arabs.

21:16 Britain`s new terror chief says 15 years needed to fight Islamic terrorism (AP) "Exactly what Israeli is doing - fighting Islamic terrorism." Does that include the ongoing building of (illegal) setllements taking away hope for Pals to ever have a vialable state and the unnescessary humiliations and brutal conduct of IDF at the checkpoints in the WB? In my view that is not fighting terrorism but creating and fueling terrorism.

A voice of truth reason in a jungle of ignorance and incorrigible self-righteousness. Thank you.

That may well be so, so what is your argument, because they killed each other, it is okay for a strangers (zionists) to keep up the good work? Preposterous.

OK, the far-left-wing, socialist, communist, Islamofascist-dominated, and anti-Semitic TGWU has called for its 800,000 members to boycott Israeli-made products. Does that mean that the TGWU members are going to ask the green grocer where the strawberries are coming from, or tear apart their electronic devices looking for Israeli made chips, or ask the jeweler where the diamond in their engagement ring was cut, or refuse life support while in the hospital because the machine to do it was made in Israel? I don't think so. It's just another useless bluff that will have no economic impact whatsoever, but it might have political consequences if the majority of the British agree, but I doubt that. The majority of the British are not too keen on extra-judicial organizations disregarding the presumption of innocence and assuming the role of judge, jury, and executioner with statements like 'Israel's "criminal policies in Palestinian territories"' without a trial.

The post doesn't say that at all, and you know it. The madness in Darfur is being addressed, but not quickly enough, however, that and other tragedies are NOT supported by US money, weapon nor stand at the fulcrum of not only East versus West but the possible use of nukes here. If you fail to discern any difference between the two, there's not much I can say. Most people agree that the Pal issue will and must be settled, and very soon and probably not to everybody's satisfaction. Time is short. Thanks for the post. Regards.

Fabulous News! Horray for the British! It's too bad so few my own countrymen here in the States don't have the nerve to do the right thing as well.

It won't be the first time in history that the Jews were sacrificed on the altar of financial expedience and self-interest.

The biggest resistance to Palestinian independence is from the Palestinians themselves, as proves in 1948 (181), 1967 (3 nos of the Arab league in Khartoum - rejecting Israel's offer of return of all captured land in exchange for true peace), Oslo (they sure screwed than one up and Camp David 2000. The reason is that they want all of Israel (as stated in Hamas charter) and therefore they will not settle for less. Far prefer to endure another 40 years of misery and hardhip.

Jews don't like (and rail against) the Muslim mentality that they are superior to everyone in the world and that everyone should accept their "specialness" the Jews also raise their kids think that they are better than anyone in the world their "chosenness"...no wonder these people hate each other! Both think that they are superior than the other....I have to say, this abrahimic/zoraostrian view of life and god is very very primitive, their is no external god per se (much more compicated) and their is no binary world of good and evil...it is all part of god, which we are all a part of, its not some being that dictates to this people or that or chosen one over the other, its a miserly and primitive way of looking at god, god almost as a commodity in their minds, Muslim and Jew. You will both bring this world down. Please let the rest of the atheist, buddhist, hindu world (which is the majority of the world) live in peace!

All this stupid prattle by the ignorant racists amonst us claiming the superiority of Jewish brainpower assists our equally stupid detractors in promoting their own agendas. I would be happy to see less of this arrogant nonsense expressed in so many responses

Unpleasant as it is for Israelis and Jews to admit, what is going on in the West Bank does resemble Apartheid. There are two groups of people there, the natives (Palestinians) and the newcomer Settlers (Israeli Jews). The latter group has all rights, and subject to Israeli law, while the Palestinians have no rights and subject to Jordanian and military laws handed down by military courts. The settlers have exclusive use of some new and fast roads, while the natives have to use side roads or dirt roads, and must wait patiently at roadblocks which do not block the Israelis` traffic. All this is well known. The usual excuse for this state of affairs is Palestinian terrorism and danger to the settlers. Sorry, but this is a lame excuse. When you introduce settlers into an occupied territory and allocate to them large tracts of land and generous water quotas (much larger than the natives get), there should be the expectation of resistance. The settlement project itself breeds the resistance, and therefore the Apartheid regime. It is time for Israelis and Jews to look at Israel`s behavior and stop accusing the world of anti-Semitism.

Why doesn't the British workers' union take action against the genocide that is happening in Darfur. Hundreds of thousands have been murdered there but the union does not even bring that issue up on their agenda. Is the British workers' union anti-semetic. They sure are, but just as the horrible justification of blaming Jews for all the world's problems was advocated by the Third Reich, so in time will the unjustified accusations of the British Unions be relegated to the dust bin of history. OK British Union: if you want to take some effective action boycott the Sudan.

Michael, thanks for the lesson in free media. america can enlighten us all, surely. no colonial aspects there, no sirree!! We're all anti-Semites here, our media included. Nothing to do with 40 years of occupation or 60 years of zionist colonisation. Open your eyes!

While this is going on in Britain and Canada, the USA Protestant churches have recently declared they had been too one-sided at looking at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which they say is complicated; and hopefully they will now look at both sides of the issue and remain fair. Many Christian Churches are tolerant. Again, we have a terrorist list and sanctions against Iran, etc. will probably get tighter. Why don't these unions try boycotting Iran and Hamas? They can't because I think they depend on Iran and USSR for oil. They could get oil from Iraq if only things in Iraq change so they do not have to depend on Iran. I surely will continue to buy "made in USA" for better products and nothing from the kingdoms of the Prince Phillip and the Queen of England. The husbands of Phillip's sisters were in charge of German concentration camps. I am glad USA no longer belongs to this royalty. I will not visit Canada or Britain or buy their products (my boycott). Losers Great Britain.

...have a momentum all of their own.

A box of the finest thigh-rolled Havanas, Comforti - at long last after many weeks of being villified,venomised, pillories, shouted at, abused and denigrated at last somone with a sense of humour. Seriously and to respond directly to your well-taken irony, it would be reckless to go near Gaza with the Dagmoush criminals still on the loose, waiting, as you say, for their next Alan Johnston. Thanks you for your cheering post, wherever you are Comforti.

Sounds to me more like noise from your cage. But to answer your question. 1, Put a stop to the illegal exspansion of illegal Settlements. 2, stop the illegal asassinations. 3,Stop the illegal House demolitions.This is collective punishment and is a war crime. 4,Stop the illegal theft of Palestinians land,etc,etc. And maybe then they will stop responding.If they do not then you and I can talk about where we sit. BTW Carrying out a selfserving demographic move from Gaza does not ammount to sufficient effort on your part to foster confidence in the minds of your enemies.As a stand alone act,even if an act of genorosity???, it wont stand up. As to the other groups Doing a better job than boycotts,they have been shut up as is anyone in Israel who criticises that state.The facts on the ground do not bear out your assertions.Usually the 'Self Hating Jew " card comes out/Heard it all Gil.

...Firstly HM, have you ever lived in the UK for a period of time, I ask because you seem to think you have an accurate idea of our society. (I should point out I?m nether Jewish or Muslim, I?m a young brit-indian) the Muslim minority in the UK have devolved disproportionally little political influence, let alone influence on UK foreign polices. People seemed to not have noticed that this is union boycott, not a state supported boycott?however this union does represent a broad section of our multi-cultural society. This boycott is in reposes to the crimes that Israel for years have perpetrated against the Pal (which I witnessed for myself last year), as well as their summer war with Lebanon. There is also a large number of british Jews who support this and other boycotts of Israel?but I?m sure they will just be accused of being self hating jews, right? ?Second, British Muslims did not ?bring? terror with them, and it is ridiculous to suggest so? ?and lastly anti-Zionism, is not anti-Semitism, Israel will not be able to hide behind this excuse for much longer

Supporters of Israel are burying their head in the sand if they refuse to acknowledge the similarities between Israel's settlement policy and the "homelands" policy of the apartheid South African government. Israel's occupation of the West Bank in support of its settlement policy may not be equivalent to the situation in Darfur, or the Rwandan genocide. Still it is beyond what should be tolerated by Western democracies. Since it is clear that governments, neither in Europe nor the United States, are prepared to put the kind of pressure on Israel necessary to make it conform to international law in the "territories", it is up to groups like the British unions to take this matter into their own hands. More power to them!

london's piccadilly circus has cameras covering every last square inch of the tourist trap and not one camera caught the picture of the driver of the "terrorist" mercedes, hmmmmm... cameras cover every linear inch of glasgow's airport that was "attacked" by a car exploded from inside by TWO drivers with very expensive education. The pictures showed said car with a FLAT roof and INTACT, if burning, sides, hmmmmmmm... cui bono from this obvious if inane stupidity? israeli governments unconscionable brutality, an every day staple easily found on the internet, often provided by israeli expats who understand that time is no longer on israel's side. the persecution and slaughter of palestinians will never deliver the israeli goal of eretz yisrael. what is unconscionably insane is that the stupidity of the minority of dumb racists and the complicit silence of the majority will mark the yet unborn generations, just look at the germans. and heed pastor niemoeller's words...

If Jolanda thinks that people join the Trade Unions for political reasons Then he/she is up the gumtree. The unions have never spoken for the British People. Many of the activists are and were Trotskyists who wanted the Labour MPs to be union delegates. I have lived my life in Britain and it's still a free country. So who is Jolanda to dictate to me who or what I am allowed to support.

then how do we call a 40 year long boycott of the Palestinian people by Israel? Zionism?! The Boycott is not anti-semitism but it is wrong and so is the occupation.

Most if not all of the westerners who are antisemties, and lovers of what islam stands for and does are leftwingers. Leftwingers have become something very sick. Since socialism is a sick system, it makes some sense leftwingers love the bad regimes all over the world. Leftwingers like china, cuba, former soviet union, the pol pot regime, all muslim regimes with beheadings, honour killings, treating women like dogs etc. Leftwingers are no better today than the nazis during the 30's. Or are they, if so how?

Labhras ? have you ever asked yourself the question, why? Or what have they done to deserve this? Just, O they threw a 2000lb bomb. ? Why? What happened before? Or, O they demolished a house, O they use targeted killings, O the use separation barriers, O they have only Israeli roads ? Do you ask why? What happened before? Are the Israelis making an effort to stop and see what happens to loosen the grip? By your posts, I know you haven?t! And I think it is better to ask those questions! And try to answer that question objectively! Yes I know we are talking about people here, yes I know, and I have my own criticism on the system I live in, but not on what you are arguing here!

Maranatha is right....the wealthy Arab oil states had the capacity to lift Palestinian refugees out of their dire straits decades ago. I would have thought that these many years of religious fervor in the name of Islam would have, at the least, brought about this singular act of compassion. If the Brits wish to boycott Israel for acts committed, how about boycotting Arab states for acts OMITTED?

There is a very simple response that we can give the British: cancel the pending $4 billion agreement to buy gas from British Gas company until boycott is rescinded. Why should we buy gas from fields off the coast of Gaza when they are controlled by Hamas and will be supplied to Israel by people who are proposing to boycott our products?

Thanks for correcting me, Ting. The Norwegians boycotted Israel first. "A week ago Norway's largest trade union, representing some 800,000 workers, declared a consumer boycott of Israel. It urged its members not to buy Israeli goods and to reject invitations from any Israeli bodies. Supermarket chains promptly began labeling Israeli produce with special stickers to help the boycott, and truckers refused to transport Israeli goods from the ports.. Unlike in many other European countries, attitudes in homogeneous Norway are not the product of a large Muslim population. Butenschon explains that after World War II, Norway felt a strong obligation to Israel, which translated both into military and economic aid and emotional attachment. Now, he said, "many Norwegians feel betrayed. Israel disappointed them from a moral standpoint and crossed red lines."" - Haaretz 26, 2002 www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-0035.html

The boycott, precisely at this time, is a sick hypocritical strategy. It is not too far-fetched to conclude that one of its main immediate intentions was to placate further terrorist attacks in Britain. That is sick hypocritical logic.

Fatma, all boycots of Israel are stupid. Eventually Israel will become much more creative in dealing with all, who try to undermine it. Say for example, the pal's are instigating this or that boycot, or in other words all the boycots are for the benefit of pal's. So Israel should give tham a good taste of that benefit. Why not subtract permanently the damage costs to Israeli economy, from pal's taxes paid through Israel, or refuse all pal's good's transit through Israel untill all boycots are removed and so on and so forth. I for one would implement the harshest measures against pal's regardless of anything, boycots including: no water, no medicine, no electricity for pal's. If it is up to me your beloved pal's would be long gone to the muslim lands far, far away from Israel. It will happen Fatma, and not in so distant future. Regards....

...Firstly HM, have you ever lived in the UK for a period of time, I ask because you seem to think you have an accurate idea of our society. (I should point out I?m nether Jewish or Muslim, I?m a young brit-indian) the Muslim minority in the UK have devolved disproportionally little political influence, let alone influence on UK foreign polices. People seemed to not have noticed that this is union boycott, not a state supported boycott?however this union does represent a broad section of our multi-cultural society. This boycott is in reposes to the crimes that Israel for years have perpetrated against the Pal (which I witnessed for myself last year), as well as their summer war with Lebanon. There is also a large number of british Jews who support this and other boycotts of Israel?but I?m sure they will just be accused of being self hating jews, right? ?Second, British Muslims did not ?bring? terror with them, and it is ridiculous to suggest so? ?and lastly anti-Zionism, is not anti-Semitism, Israel will not be able to hide behind this excuse for much longer

you've saved yourself from owning a lemon!

Bravo England, Throw out the Jews from England. I like your Zionistic effort. We need them in Israel. The Jewish Agency cannot do such a good job! Jews of England, Leave England with its Muslems. Come home my sisters and brothers! Eilat welcomes you!

My computer was made by those wonderful people Phillips in Holland. The box did not have Made in Israel stamped on it. In fact the main chip thingy does not have Made in Israel stamped on it either. So if there are components from Israel I have not conciously brought them. As far as I am aware Microsoft is an American company. I presume you yourself in protest at the boycott are going to stop using tyres on your car, bike. Cease to travel on Jet Aircraft, and lobby for the removal of all tamacced roads in Israel. Thought not

At least you don't try to wrap it in moral chatter, like the rest of the anti "Israeli" comments here.

No travel to Britain for me as long as this boycott is in effect. I think that is the best response to this unfair, unbalanced and unjustified union action.

Probably doesn't know the meaning of Zionism, either. Thinks it's some racist diatribe against the goyim and dhimmis. Oh well. No one ever said that a true anti-Semite is an intelligent human being. In fact, anti-Semites are some of the dumbest people we find here on Earth. Willing to believe anything the Church, the 3rd Reich, and a gun toting stuffed mouse will tell them.

"Just ordered Jaguar car, will cancel!!" Am I right to suppose that your last car was also a Jaguar which you ordered when Britain joined the coalition of the willing and you cancelled the Mercedes which you ordered after you cancelled the Citroen and found out that Germany and France objected to the Iraq invasion??? But even then you were had: Your Jaguar couldn't move an inch without German components. Conclusion: He who takes his political views to the car dealer, reveals himself as an idiot.

"If anyone thinks such boycots will pursuade Israelis to return lands without these conditions in place, they are dreaming." you wrote. 1, I am glad to see you admit the lands are not Israel,s and should be returned. 2,Your remarks are echoes from the past. Were you making the same statements then in afrikaner country.The boycotts worked there. 3,BTW the quartet conditions are defunct.Haven,t you heard.

Labhras ? Who rattled your cage? Yes Sir (Labhras)! Tomorrow we will end the occupation! Why should we? Why because you say so? And what then what guaranty have you for us Israelis that the day after tomorrow rockets won?t flay on the airport of Tel-Aviv, what guaranty have you every thing is going to be just fine! Labhras we have been there before, Gaza remember, we got out of Gaza and they got violent, why? Because of their nature! So what would you advise us to do when they get violent, just because we pulled out from the West Bank? What then? Go send our soldiers to conquer? And what then, get out? Start understanding that rushing things up is from the devil! Believe me there are many groups in Israel (not me) that are doing a better job then your boycott, your boycott is only sending the wrong message to the region! But what do I know about this offal place besides living in it!

ator: one Göran Rosenberg in Sweden says almost exactly the same as you do. He's in fact eeking a living out of bashing Israel. He's got a Swedish passport though,you should get your Israeli pass revoked,pronto!!!

Mr. Don Camillo, upon arriving to Gaza, if asked for a password, please say: "Alan Johnston".

anti-Semite. In short, the occupation of Palestine must end.

Surprised at you Chris. They already have the 1.5 billion Moslem customers and they will lose way more than the custom of the six million people in Israel. The only people who should be "quaking in their boots" are the radical Brit unionists who can't see beyond their narrow-minded turned up noses to recognize that their unilateral actions against this one little country, when there are so many more worse and serious wrongs being done around the world, can't be interpreted as anything else but anti- Jewish. But there's no surprise there since bastards like you have worked for years to make it fashionable to tweak the Jews and twist the knife just a little, smile a bit at your accomplishment and then, with great and dramatic outrage, express disdainful shock that anyone could possibly think you were an anti-Semite.

Why not inviting them to visit Ajaami in Jaffa or the old city of Akko or to Jisr elzarqa or to Anatta neighbourhood in East Jerusalem so they can see for themselves how happy are the Arab in the beacon of democracy of the middle east?

As a jewish english academic with an israeli passport and IDF armry service behind me my only question is why it took so long for this boycott to be supported. My experience i the army primarily during the 1st lebanon war and 2nd intifada made me realise that what `israel was doing didn't just contravene international humanitarian standards it was also bad for the jews. I am proud to have left israel and proud to as a jew to be supporting a boycott of policies that are profoundly unjust and ultimately unjewish

British Labor Unions are the heart and soul of the British Labor Party, the governing party, which is a member of the Socialist International.The Israeli Labor Party and Meretz are also members. Couldn't the multi millionaire leader of the Israeli Labor party work this out with his socialist brothers? The answer is that Socialism is finished in most of the world and the sooner Jews say good -bye to this false deity of universal brotherhood (which always excludes Jews) the better.

muslims?? now you chris should start the boycott immediately and switch off your israeli designed computer and software !

BIG BIG day for the Irish Jew-baiter and Israel-hater. Context Labrhas, context. This is a marginalized story EVERYWHERE but Haaretz. Haaretz feeds on this stuff and you and your ilk get your big chance to pontificate about how none of this would have to happen if only the "occupation" was ended. What a load of horsepoop. The British boycotters would find another reason and then another reason to boycott Isral and you would find another reason to bleat about their moral rectitude. Your racism is always transparent because you give no quarter at all to Israel's side of this story and there is one. The problemn with racist bigots like you is if you were to acknowledge it, you'd have no justification for your own, very special, one-sided morality.

Ah yes GZlives. The Balfour Declaration. Did you not notice how few countries wanted Jewish refugees during and after the WWII? Did you not recognize the Balfour declaration for what it was... a way to get rid of the Jews from the UK and probably Europe at the end of WW1. The Palestinians were saddled with you: pitty them. The US now uses you to control oil. Don't think that when the US has no use for you you won't be discarded no matter how strong AIPAC may be. The US btw is a waining power and China, the dragon, in waxing. Time is short to make peace with your neighbours to ensure your survival.

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The leadership of the union can call for all the boycotts in the world but the rank and file will always do what they want to. I find myself going out of my way to buy from Israel. I also buy all of the high tech stuff that comes out of Gaza as well. Although their distribution is really bad because their products are so hard to find. The only boycott I ever saw that worked was in the 70's when the east coast of the States boycotted beef because of a massive price increase. You would not see anyone at the meat counter. After a few days they were tired of throwing it away, and gave it to customers. The whole thing was over in a month.

entering Israel. They hould go to welcoming Britain

You say Chinese are met with protests about the situation in Tibet...the country is not boycotted...Israel is...and your use of the phrase sholmozion is ugly to the core...but then what can one say about a country whose prince prances around in a nazi uniform after all of the deaths that the English suffered at the hands of the Nazi's? Good grief Charlie Brown your country is nuts. But then again you are suffering and will soon be Londonstan...boo hoo.

The British, together with the French and Belgians, colonized the Middle East and Africa, then left in place horrid dictators and now they need someone to blame. The British media distorts the reports about the "Middle East Conflict", so that the Brits would think that Israel is the blame for everything that goes wrong. Same on you Brits.

I am ashamed that the T&GW Union want to boycott everything Israeli. They must be ignorant of the fact that Qassam missiles are still raining down on places like Sderot from Gaza. I believe that the Arabs are using the Palestinians as pawns in a game. Their wealthy petrodollars could solve the refugee problem by granting them plentiful land in e.g. Jordan, Syria and Saudi. They are not interested, as the Palestinian problem can be used as a big stick against Israel and also as a breeding ground for jihadist suicide bombers. Are you listening you poor deceived UK Unions and Anti-Semites everywhere. Wake up and open your eyes.

Apparently, ahead of the actual vote on the boycott, Eric McDonald, secretary of TGWU's Birmingham branch (which proposed the boycott motion) compared Israel to Nazi Germany. But wasn't it Nazi Germany that called on people 'not to buy from Jews'?

That is only the beginning. Anyone who has watched the french documentary The Wall gets the unvarnished picture of what Israel has wrought on the Palestinians and their land. Perhaps all who are ready to boycott Israel are antisemites. Israel in its actions apparently contributes to the swelling of the ranks. Sticking its head in the sand is not the answer.

DO AS THE ARAB COUNTRIES DO. INSIST THAT EVERY PRODUCT ENTERING THE BRITIAN ID'S EVERY PART OF ANYTHING THAT HAS SOMETHING MADE, DEVELOPED IN ISRAEL. SO IF ANY PART OF A MICROSOFT PROGRAMME IS DEVELOPED IN ISRAEL SHOW IT. IF ANY PART OF A MOBILE PHONE, TV, IPOD, PC, LAPTOP, GAMES PROGRAMME ETC. SHOW IT, BE PROUD. DENY THE BASTARDS ALL THE TOYS ETC. THEY NOW USE. DK

Nothing has changed in the British Mentality for the last 60 years with regard to Israel. I AM BORN BRITISH, and know them well. Britain made a mess of this land and left. The Arabs have never wanted the Jews here and Britain helped them on. However,Israel moved out of Gaza and gave them the land "judenrein" what have they done with it. Ziltch. A group of Jewish businessmen put up the money for the greenhouse businesses which provided work for the Arabs - Ziltch. totally destroyed by them. Businesses providing income for the Arab families abounded - Ziltch. The Arabs just want to take and not do something with what they have got. When Nasser had the refugees, they lived in tents, he did nothing for his people, look at Gaza today.What did Arafat do for them. Check the account in Switzerland. Come on you antisemites, why dont you study history and educate yourselves.British Workers should go to Gaza and get them started in the workplace. Good Luck Tony Blair in your new job.

Yep losing 6 million Israeli customers, but gaining 1.5 billion Moslem customers. Seems like a good trade off to me. The United Kingdom is quaking in its boots at your threats.

No Dina, it is not racism. It is because your country boycotts the right of Palestinians to have their own State. It is because your country drops 2000lb bombs indiscriminately on apartment buildings.It is because your Country continues to steal land and demolish Homes(A war crime). Do not flatter your self by assuming you attract attentuion by virtue of being Jewish.It is the criminal behaviour of the State which just happens to be called Israel that attracts the attention. For a zionist to accuse others of racism is indeed disingenuous.

just like the old days.

They do not represent the population.

#78. That's the ticket: cancel Jaguar, buy a Lexus.

"Let them start by turning off their computers Because the Pentium chips that they use were designed and possibly made here in Israel." First, I do not support such boycotts, but your presumption that anybody anywhere is dependent on Israeli products, is ridiculous as well. And Intel CPUs were, are, and will be American products. Regardless of their place of manufacture.