Is it Time to Boycott Israel?

Meanwhile, as soon as you hear that this or that group has called for disinvestment in this or that Israeli company, make sure you wait until the disinvestment has taken place, then immediately buy that Israeli stock which has abruptly been made a bargain by its being unloaded not for economic but for political reasons.
I think you could make a lot of money, if you timed things right, in buying Israeli stocks just as soon as some British labor union, or Norwegian government, or some other similar body, decides to sell.
Sshh. Don't tell anyone of this idea. Just quietly buy. And buy, And buy. ‘’

I also think that a boycott would work, and I would participate in my own way. It really sounds fair that if you wreck someone's pocket they are bound to come around hopefully without taking any more lives..........

netinyahooo do you just cut and paste from post to post?

I don't know whether or not I agree with her stance on this,...but Naomi Klein is a powerful, sane, anti corporate voice in an EVER MORE corporate world. If she advances a perspective, I sure as hell am going to mull it over.

Hmm, let's boycott medicine, it's the #1 export, how about eco-tech? #2. Computer tech? The funny thing is except for a few things at Trader Joes, you might die without Israeli products, (the bees might die too because we have advanced research in stemming hive collapse) and you certainly won't be able to post this crap without our tech stuff.
Only Israelis and Jews buy Israeli Kosher food imports.
Boycott all you want, I look forward to not hearing this again.
"You can't protest the cutting down of trees with paper flyers," Charles Manson

so boycott an ally in democracy ?
doesnt that provide support for terrorists through denying support for thier oponents?

That picture of Albert Einstein is hilarious, he was ugly as they get, he must have easily been identified as a Jew. Definitely time to boycott Israel and stop sending them 5 Billion a year in American taxpayer dollars

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At 12, as Klein has proudly recounted, she wrote her Bat Mitzvah speech "about Jews being racist." Her target then was attitudes supposedly held by her sixth-grade classmates in Montreal's well-respected Jewish People's School.

This was only prelude to a central episode in the Klein mythology, about which she boasts in biographical interviews.

As a college student in 1990, Klein wrote an editorial (see http://www.unwatch.org/naomiklein)for the University of Toronto's student newspaper The Varsity.

Klein's article was anything but normal. Its thesis sentence and blaring headline: "What Israel has become: Racism and misogyny at the core of its being."

"Israeli men," she said, "reach maturity by brutalizing and degrading Palestinians." Then there was "Israeli men's misogyny toward Israeli women."

Most disturbing, said Klein, "is something known to Israeli women as 'Holocaust pornography,' where images of emaciated women near ovens, shower heads, cattle cars and the like are used to sell clothing and other products." Jewish women, she informed her readers, "are sexualized as Holocaust victims for Israeli men to masturbate over ... the themes are fire, gas, trains, emaciation and death."

If such aberrant ads or magazines ever existed, they were well hidden. But Klein was looking to demonize -- not only Israel, but Judaism, and Jews.

Two decades ago--in the "Victim to victimizer" article that she continues to revere, even as she has been hiding its true contents -- Klein asked Toronto to hate Israel on the grounds that "racism and misogyny" were "at the core of its being," a society sick on "Holocaust pornography."

In her recent op-ed calling on Toronto to boycott Israeli films, Klein attacks the Jewish state for objecting to the Goldstone inquiry on Gaza created by the UN Human Rights Council -- in which the Arab-controlled body declared Israel guilty in advance.

The path to Middle East peace requires mutual dialogue, recognition and compromise -- not irrational boycotts motivated by selective morality, anger and rage.

The strange enduring rage of Naomi Klein

Supporters of liberal democratic values may have a hard time understanding why anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein has recruited Jane Fonda and other stars to boycott the Toronto International Film Festival for the crime of showing films from Tel Aviv, a symbol of tolerance in a region of tyranny.

Klein has never called for a boycott of films or any other products from the dozens of Arab and Islamic countries that systematically subjugate their women, torture dissidents and persecute religious and ethnic minorities.

She was not moved to protest when the city of Toronto twinned with Chongqing, nor when it established a "friendship relationship" with Ho Chi Minh City, despite the widespread human rights abuses in both China and Vietnam.

Nor has she ever called for the boycotting of films from the many Western democracies, including Canada, whose soldiers are fighting Islamist terrorists in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Klein's singling out of Israel -- particularly its most liberal city and cultural sector -- has no rational basis.
This should come as no surprise. For while Klein's statements and writings on Israel pose as sober analysis, the truth is that she has always acted on this subject out of intense emotion, hysteria and anger, rather than rational thought, facts or logic.
Klein has certainly succeeded in becoming today's leading opponent of Israel in the Western world. While this is a new role for someone famous as an anti-capitalist crusader, the truth is that Klein has nurtured a strange rage against her own people, faith and national cause, from a remarkably young age.

What is there to boycott? Does Israel even export anything to the west that we could boycott? I would be interested to see a list if anyone knows.