'Black Friday' gives way to 'Buy Israel Week'

[vminfla]

Their effort may be coming on the heels of “Black Friday,” but organizers of a new nationwide campaign are hoping that consumers will hold on to some of their shopping dollars to show support for Israel.

Jewish newspapers, pro-Israel groups, Israeli companies and retailers are joining together to launch the first Buy Israel Week, which runs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 4.

Retailers are offering special offers on Israeli goods and nine Jewish metropolitan papers are publishing special supplements and a website, buyisraelweek.com, is featuring deals, coupons and contests in order to showcase the breadth of Israeli products.

“From a consumer perspective, Israel is known as a high-tech place,” said Frances Zelazny, a marketer from New York who conceived and organized the campaign. “We want to show some consumer brands, the coolness of the fashion, the food.”

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=247018

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This is a good week to buy Israeli goods. I think I will go out and buy a Jericho this week. What a wonderful program that will no doubt more than offset the ill-conceived BDS (Boycott Derangement Syndome) programs that anti-Israeli groups promote.

[Little Tich]

1. I will buy my weekly tin of Israeli dill pickles whether it's Buy Israel Week or Boycott Everything

Week. I will not buy settlement products, however. Unfortunately, I saw that some of the companies involved were those that sell products from settlements: Ahava skincare products, Barkan winery and Royal Wines. That's sneaky, for these companies make things difficult for other Israeli companies that are not doing anything illegal. I'm smart enough to know the difference, but maybe others won't be.

Here is a link to the Buy Israel Week flier to look at:
http://buyisraelweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/biw-chicago-jewish-news-supplement.pdf

If there were more Israeli products in the stores I would probably buy more than just pickles.

[azurnoir]

2. a more complete list of settlement products

http://www.inminds.com/boycott-settlements.html

for a few here I am sure encouragement to go out and buy specifically these products

[holdencaufield]

3. My Xmas list online -- thanks! NT

[Violet_Crumble]

4. I take it from that reaction that you support the settlements...

Disgusting....

[King_David]

6. I will buy Israeli goods

all year round and more on buy Israel week.

I encourage everyone to send the info to everyone on their contact lists as I did.

(I guess you never got my eMail? )

[Violet_Crumble]

18. I don't care what you buy...

And seeing as how you haven't got my email addy and blocked any PMs from you, there'd be no point trying to send me anything...

[King_David]

27. You blocked my PM`s ?

WTF , I never PM you EVER.

That is just creepy.

[Violet_Crumble]

30. You just asked me if I got yr email. Can't be too cautious...

Nothing creepy about keeping my inbox free of creepiness that could possibly end up there. I mean, I find it rather creepy that someone who doesn't have my email address would ask if I got their email :)

[vminfla]

9. Perhaps he places no value in Boycott Derangement Syndrome

It is a disgusting attempt to delegitamize Israel.

[holdencaufield]

12. After checking out that website...

... and seeing how obviously biased and misleading it was, I decided that it was my duty at patronize the companies on that list to lend a sense of balance and equity to the argument.

After all, I wouldn't want the BDS Movement to be overcome by over-zealous bias. It wouldn't be fair.

[Violet_Crumble]

17. Yeah, there were folk who felt the same way about BDS against South Africa...

And as yr so prone to confusion about what is and isn't Israel, the settlements aren't part of Israel, but occupied territory. Opposing the settlements and refusing to buy products from the settlements is in no way attempting to delegitimise Israel...

[vminfla]

21. Aer we still trying to raise the "apartheid" flag up the pole?

What utter nonsense that does a disservice to the memory of South Africans who endured apartheid.

[azurnoir]

22. "What utter nonsense that does a disservice to the memory of South Africans who endured apartheid."

really now you mean like Desmond Tutu?

[vminfla]

24. Tutu's comments were ill-conceived

If you wish to decry apartheid states, that complain about Saudi Arabia that bans non-muslims from Mecca and Medina. Don't complain about a progressive state that has arab and Christian legislatures and has none of the demonnstratable traits of an apartheid state, such as Saudi Arabia.

[Violet_Crumble]

33. Having endured Apartheid himself, it's yr comments that are ill-conceived...

Given that you view the West Bank as being part of Israel, Greater Israel would be most definitely an apartheid state. It's the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank that carry the traits of apartheid, and for those who insist the West Bank is part of Israel, there's no getting out of the fact that their vision of Israel is that of an apartheid state...

[King_David]

28. Judge Richard Goldstone thoroughly destroyed that apartheid argument .

Israel and the Apartheid Slander



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/israel-and-the-apartheid-slander.html


;)

[azurnoir]

29. didn't Goldstone help to enforce apartheid? why yes he did as a SA Judge at the time

whereas Desmond Tutu lived under it, I'll take Tutu's word for it
Your premise is similar to taking a settlers word about living under occupation.....oh wait

[vminfla]

32. Every few years, the anti-semites come up with another excuse for everyone to hate jews

They have been trying to get the apartheid meme to stick ever since the boycott derangement syndrome has turned out to be a complete failure despite their best, crazy efforts.

[shaayecanaan]

16. I myself won't touch wine unless the grapes are grown on stolen Palestinian land...

it makes the wine taste so much better, particularly if I can read in the wine notes that the said Arab's lemon or olive groves were uprooted and ploughed into the soil beforehand.

[Violet_Crumble]

19. Heh heh....

I suspect that's pretty close to the thought patterns of some who go out of their way to buy stuff just because they're produced in the settlements...

[Mosby]

26. What about wines from the Golan?

are they off limits to progressives?

and if they are should good progressives not shop at Bevmo and Total Wine, cuz that would be a bummer
:-(

[Violet_Crumble]

31. I don't know. Why don't you go ask a progressive?

I'm not one. I'm rather parochial when it comes to wine and have a fondness for supporting the local wineries in this region...

[azurnoir]

7. oh you mean they weren't anyway? glad I could help n/t

[vminfla]

5. Don't care much for Middle East wines

But thanks for the list. The list clearly demonstrates Boycott Derangement Syndrome. Including the Golan Heights clearly demonstrates that this group is not for a two state solution, but an arab state in place of Israel.

[hack89]

8. Thanks for the gift ideas. nt

[azurnoir]

10. Thanks for your reply support settlement goods

were you in the market for diamonds in the '80's I bet DeBeers had a steady customer?

[hack89]

11. Ladies love the blood diamonds I must admit. nt

[holdencaufield]

13. I hope you spent TWO-MONTH'S salary... NT

[azurnoir]

14. Do they now? actually there are not many 'blood diamonds' anymore Kimberly Process and all

However my comment applied to South African diamonds exported during the apartheid era, not the blood diamonds which came later

but thanks for your very revealing replies they say so much

[hack89]

20. Well, considering how hard it is to get products made in North Korean prison camps

one has to make do.

[azurnoir]

23. well if your having a hard time finding them check your local Walmart

I'm sure they carry something

[Dick Dastardly]

15. You have not lived until you try Don Hermann & Sons Kosher Dill Pickles.

http://hermannpicklecompany.com/index.htm

Its a family owned pickle farm that has been around since 1938.

They sell a few different varieties and also pack Nathans Famous Pickles but my favorite are their original Don Hermann & Sons Kosher Dill Pickles product. Here is what the the label looks like.
http://hermannpicklecompany.com/don_hermann_and_sons.htm

[azurnoir]

25. ah but unfortunatesly the best IMO are no longer availible

they would be Max's especially the half dills straight brine no vinegar with whole garlic cloves carrot chunks and celery in the jars, good stuff Clausen's makes a half dill which will do but they're not as good