PA upgrades boycott of settlement products despite Israeli warnings

through which Israel exports some 27% of it,s exports to the EU. Well done those Palestinians --Israel has claimed for decades that if you adopted peaceful protest you would get somewhere --but now we see that any form of protest is a "Hostile Act" to these people who have no interest in making a just peace. Some of us have known this for years but at least more people are catching on.

Good job Salam Fayyad. We all support you!

It is within my rights to protest the settlements, just as it is the right of every Palestinian and every other Israeli with a conscience. If we want peace, we have to stop pandering to these extremists, set a reasonable border, and move forward with a real 2 state plan. Stopping the settlements is the first step.

Keep it up. at one point theyre businesses will start loosing and they will find it not feasable to stay in such settlements.

Good for them!! Too bad the settlers don't understand how ridiculous they sound!!

the illegal settlement council calls the boycott of products made on stolen lands "economic terrorism". I like to know what they call the blockade of Gaza. I guess in Israel, the only democracy in the middle east, anyone who disagrees with you is a terrorist, including Chomsky. You should start calling yourself "Israstan",

...or a new low for Israel. Israelis must be totally divorced from reality if they think anyone outside of Israel and US Evangelical churches believes any of this "economic terrorism" garbage. It would be simply pathetic if it wasn't so genuinely evil in its slander, and intent to legitimate the subjugation of fellow human beings. Shame on Israel.

So when the PA peacefully recommends its people stop funding the occupation and the settlers who are stealing Pal land, that's 'economic terrorism'. But when Israel leads a world campaign for boycotts and sanctions against Iran which may or may not be developing nukes and which may or may not be some kind of threat to Israel, that's legitimate? Time for Israel to grow up and stop whining every time somebody legally opposes its illegal occupation.

that a bottom has been reached in treatment of Palestinians, settlers or their surrogates reach a new low. Taking action of any kind against a captive people's decision not to buy their captors' products is scurrilous. The Goliath of Israeli military occupation is being defeated by simple decisions of the ordinary Davids of Palestine. Now Goliath is whining that David wants to injure him.

We should have done this a long time ago!

Keep it up, boycott Israeli Settlements products. Boycott Divest and Sanctions, continue the non-violent resistance, continue the popular struggle. At the end of the day, we will survive, we will announce independence, and occupation will go to the garbage of history, then we will be free :)

When will the "pay backs" start by Israeli religiously fanatic Occupiers against this non-violent Civil Disobedience? Stop the land grabs! Stop the confiscation.

The Palestinian Authority has no doubt steered itself on a collision course with Israel. This serves well for the right wing settler movement which grows as we speak. Even though, the silent majority of Israeli society may well applaud said decision, one can be sure that pressure will be exerted on the coalition to either downgrade current proximity talks or close down the port facilities offered by Israel to the PA. No doubt, the PA needs to unify its citizens in a common course of action. No doubt the PA believes that Israel is some sort of Apartheid State similar to South Africa in the 80·s, where the popular belief by many was that through sanctions South Africa capitulated in favor of the ANC. The PA no doubt has been influenced by certain "outside" groups. The PA no doubt has taken a serious decision, which shows maturity. The ball may well be in the court of Jerusalem, however it could well be returned in an unjust manner. Good day.

Honestly, what is happening to Israel ... It occupies more of our land, keeps the occupation, annex water resources, demolish our homes, confiscate our land, imprison kill and injure our people, control our movement ... and yet they want us to use their products?? what kind of Evil is that?? Please, didn't you get the message: WE WANT A FULL DISENGAGEMENT FROM ISRAEL.

The word terrorism is probably the most used and abused term in Israeli politics. Does anyone have a definition of economic terrorism? Maybe throwing an egg at someone also constitutes agricultural terrorism!?

Boycott of products, mass disobedience, mass go to prison movements are the only methods which are effective. otherwise every other act of protesting occupation will make them declare terrorists

poor little Israel is upset that the people they steal land from are deciding not to buy the illegal settlers products. Whay that's just tewwibble. Who do those Palestinians with no civil or human rights or self-determination think they are? Free people?

"This is a hostile act on the part of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership," the Yesha Council said in a statement. "We must respond to this immediately and sharply, just like one responds to a hostile act." Those darned Palestinians! If they keep this up, I think you should even consider occupying their country.

Israel sure takes liberties with that word. A positive, peaceful action by the PA is decried as "terrorism". Boycotts have been a part of most struggles in recent history. Is Rosa Parks also an "economic terrorist" for taking part in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts? Have you ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? Eventually the world will see through the knee jerk spewing of slander and baseless propaganda.

So the settler thieves believe they are entitled to be economically-supported by the very people they've robbed? Could their logic be anymore perverted? I fully support this non-violent resistance against the illegal settlers--in fact it should have been done long ago. The settler land theft should not be rewarded.

A primary laws of marketing is don't alienate your market. Certainly the settlers have worked hard on alienating the Palestinians. It would be shameful indeed (even for Israel) to penalize Palestinians for boycotting them by cutting off their exports.

"We must respond to this immediately and sharply, just like one responds to a hostile act." A rather laughable definition of "a hostile act" but, regardless, the correct response should be to urge Israelis not to but any Palestinian goods, and *NOT* to "close Israeli ports to Palestinian exports until the boycott is lifted". After all, the PA isn't BLOCKING any settler-made goods from export; it is merely urging its constituents not to buy those goods.

good for the pa i hope they stick with it and its a positive move

Israel's Shabak murdered three generations of the Dar Yousef family, then claimd their land as "unoccupied". This is legitimate buiness??? Boycotting settlement produced goods is picayune by comparison!, and a very democratic tactic.