Fight the BDS Movement--Shop at Trader Joe 's on June 19 and June 20! Buy Israeli products : Cleveland IMC (((i)))

AN OPEN LETTER TO TRADER JOES
by Stand with us

http://standwithus.org/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=1062

We have just read a copy of the letter that you are about to receive from the South Bay Mobilization group, which encourages you to isolate Israel and punish it for the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Unfortunately, you are the new target of anti-Israel activist groups, who continue a propaganda campaign against Israel and distort facts to persuade merchants and others to boycott Israel. Such policies echo those that Arab countries have had since well before Israel's rebirth in 1948, and they also encourage and strengthen extremists who continue to undermine the peace process.

We note that the letter is a one-sided and self-serving view of the conflict. For example, there is nothing that describes the relentless terrorism coming from the variety of radical Palestinian groups surrounding Israel, including Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah, and fundamentalist groups like Islamic Jihad. We notice that their letter does not refer to Hamas, whose founding document calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel and which has caused the major problems for those who dream of peace in the region.

Also not mentioned in the letter, is the fact that Israel is only the size of New Jersey, and the terrorist groups surround it and continue to launch rockets from Gaza into Israel while calling for the ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people (check their founding documents, you can find them online).

What is mentioned in their letter is historically inaccurate, including issues about "stealing Palestinian land" and the building of the "segregation wall." It’s important to note that Jews have been in the region for over 3,000 years – all the archeology points to this fact – and the Palestinian Arabs never had a country in the region. While there are Palestinians who dream of peace and a better life for their children, the Palestinian leadership has never agreed to compromises that would have created two states, and they have tried to destroy Israel instead. Simply put, any negotiations that Israel has with the Palestinians will result in the creation of a new Palestinian/Arab state, not a reconstitution of a former entity. It is also important to note that the "segregation wall" is simply a security fence, which was built in response to the campaign of suicide bombings and terrorism launched by Palestinian leadership in 2000. The fence has helped reduce suicide bombings by almost 100 percent.

While Israel certainly is not perfect, no amount of propaganda can convince well-informed people that Israel is arbitrarily attacking its neighbors for sport.

We have always loved shopping at Trader Joes because you clearly have not allowed yourselves to be censored by political prejudice but rather offer an array of products that reflect the various tastes of your patrons. We salute you for standing clear of political pressure and maintaining your integrity and neutrality.

Thank you,

The Board and Staff of StandWithUs

standwithus.org/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=1062

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

There are many ways to participate in deshelving Israeli products. Each
group and individual should decide for yourselves what makes sense for you.

Possible actions include (& can be used in combination):

1. Leafleting outside stores (a downloadable leaflet will be posted here
very soon), with lists of the Israeli products carried by the establishment
you're targeting
2. Giving consumers a coupon to present to the cashier when they check
out, asking the store to stop carrying Israeli products
3. Putting "Don't Buy Into Apartheid" stickers on the products and
leaving them on the shelves (see exemplary photos)
4. Removing products from shelves and piling them in the front of the
store
5. Removing products from shelves and leaving them in hard-to-find places
in the store
6. Removing products from the store and dumping them in the street
7. Damaging products in some way (e.g., pouring fake blood or ketchup on
them) so they cannot be reshelved
8. Singing, guerrilla theater or speechifying inside or outside of the
store (see exemplary video)
9. Protesting/picketing/bannering outside the store
Most actions will have multiple components and options for people who don't
want to risk arrest, along with more confrontational options.

Leafleting is an important component of any action, because we are trying to educate the public about Israeli apartheid and human rights violations and the BDS campaign. We are working on a sample leaflet which will be downloadable here very soon.

Actions will have different legal consequences depending on what they are and the situation in your community. We recommend contacting your local National Lawyers' Guild chapter if there is one, or other progressive lawyers for advice before you take action.

Send us your plans!! Let us know if we can help!!

funny zionuts... trix is for kids
they do this now and then to paint the boycott as a violent rather than a passive practice.
Nice try though...
It's much easier to just say no rather than make a ziomut fuss about it.

How about we change the wording just a little bit? How about we damage the queers in some way?

A crime is a crime, but some victims are more equal than others, isn't that right?

Quit is Queers United against Israeli terror.

yeah, thats turkeys for thanksgiving again.

Trader Joes knows about the threat and has publiclly responded. Also, the community knows about the threat and is planning on turning June 19th and 20th into "Support democracy, buy Israeli products day'. At Trader joes.

From the forest itself comes the handle for the axe, eh Kate?

for more info see:
http://www.bluetruth.net/2009/06/fight-bds-movement-shop-at-trader-joes.html

christ! another bluetruth link to rabid insanity.
I notice you use this nutbag blog alot for yer screes.
Consider the zionut source.

Zionist source = anything i don't like
Zionist source= anything I can't dispute
Zionist Source= anything that makes me think

Notice the numbskull never disputes anything?
Me think he doesn't think much

bluetruth is your only source and it's tainted.
Like your mind.

Any terrorist fellator that parrots "justice is the quality and consequence of truth" for Arafat deserves a university Chair.

Sources from the good guys:

http://standwithus.org/app/iNews/view_printer.asp?ID=1062

http://www.bluetruth.net/2009/06/fight-bds-movement-shop-at-trader-joes.html

garyfouse.blogspot.com/2009/06/trader-joes-not-giving-in-to-anti.html

elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/06/moonbats-going-after-trader-joes.html

radarsite.blogspot.com/2009/06/trader-joes-under-leftist-assault-over.html

and there are others

There are plenty of links to the vandalize trader Joes sites, too. You'll have to find them yourself. I'm not going to link to them

why do they all say the same thing? Zionazi rants.

These be loons, folks; raging rabid loons.

When all else fails, trash a supermarket

I’ve reported in the past how divest-from-Israel advocates have been attempting to import some of the excesses of their European equivalents into the US, including both an academic boycott movement and campus building takeovers started in the UK. The fact that both imports have flopped has not seemed to discourage boycotters from bringing to our shores a tactic even more likely to turn the public against their cause: attacking the shelves and assaulting customers at Trader Joes.

This all began in France where a gang of Palestinian supporters took it upon themselves to enter a French supermarket where they pulled Israeli goods off the shelves in protest of the quality of couscous (whoops! I mean as a glorious and courageous “raid” into the very heart of enemy territory). This trespass and destruction of property was apparently not punished, possibly giving US-based BDS-niks the idea that they could pull off the same stunt with impunity (ignoring the fact that the French supermarket in question was in a neighborhood that had seen violent clashes between armed gangs and the police, which might have made supermarket managers a little gun shy).

Given that the threat of local armed violence over the Arab-Israeli dispute is not yet a feature of US retail (yet), the divestment crew chose to start by sending Trader Joe’s a form letter (versions of which seem to be cropping up around the divestment community lately) asking them to live up to their lofty corporate principles by refusing to sell Israeli products (including the aforementioned couscous). Ironically, the incident allowed the funky food retailer to actually live up to its principles by telling boycott advocates (and here I paraphrase) to go fuck themselves.

Bold and courageous activists in Pittsburg then turned ugly on the company they had previously tried to cajole (sound familiar?) and walked into a Trader Joe’s shop where they proceeded to pull Israeli goods and/or shove their usual misinformation into the hands of customers before being tossed out of the store for trespassing.

Undeterred, the BDS community throughout the land called for a national day of de-shelving Israeli products on June 20 (this coming Saturday). One hopes that before they get started they realize the two ways of performing such de-shelving (other than buying all the couscous for themselves) would involve (1) shoplifting, a locally prosecutable criminal offense or (2) defacing said Israeli products to make them unsellable, which turns out to be a prosecutable federal offense under the US Product Packaging Protection Act of 2002. Then again, perhaps it would be best if they didn’t realize this, but that store managers did.

Once more we have an example of what I’ve referred to in the past as “fantasy politics,” whereby people make political choices not because it will have an impact on the public or advance a particular cause, but in order to make themselves feel as though they are uniquely righteous or part of some kind of global vanguard.

By any stretch of the imagination, bothering strangers while they buy frozen dumplings in Pittsburg is not going to move the needle on American support for Israel one angstrom. It’s not going to change company policy at Trader Joe’s or anywhere else. But presuming they don’t get thrown behind bars, it will leave the boycotters able to brag to their buddies how they took on the overwhelming power of imperial Zionism at the Battle of Couscous and allow them to go to bed at night (in their parent’s basements) thinking about their unquestioned bravery and wondefulness. Never mind that all they accomplished was annoying food shoppers and getting thrown out of a store like a bunch of rowdy teens.

As an aside, I’ve always through Trader Joe’s to be a bit overrated, but last weekend I bought a box of Israeli couscous (having confused the Day of Couscous Rage by a week) along with some of their veggie sticks (to eat while watching the truly overrated Music Man on DVD with my kids). And damn if I didn’t get change (over $1 worth) from my $5 for those two items! That combined with their way-cool response to the whole boycott idiocy left me firmly in the Trader Joe’s camp. So go Joe! And by Israeli! (Especially next Saturday.)

where is there *any* evidence of vandalism except in the minds of paranoids and their black propaganda hack writers?
Just say no.

Where's the pictures of the starving Gazans, shit for brains?

Their facebook page and several of their websites urge vandalism and gives suggestions for legal counsel if arrested. (google it- most are on the first or second page)

I suspect they know no one will do this- and thats its just an attempt to bully Trader Joes into submision. Fortunately, Trader Joes won't be bullied.

Where's the pictures of the starving Gazans, shit for brains?

And crush the skulls of any vandals, by any means necessary!

Join the counter-boycott and buy Israeli products on June 19 and 20.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95405211359&ref=ts#/event.php?eid=90821504301&ref=ts

As if the usual idiocy from the ultra-fringe weren't enough, now the pro-Palestinians wish to "de-shelve" Israeli products at Trader Joe's stores. Predictably this nonsense originated in California.
Names such as Yasmin Qureishi, Kate Raphael Bender, IJAN, The South Bay Mobilization, San Francisco Women in Black, and other known "sympathizers" are associated with the plan.
Sofar it is merely food owned by someone else that they wish to shoplift or destroy - apparently they have no intention of discarding their computers, cell-phones, text-message and anti-spam software, medications, or any other products which have Israeli content.

But couscous, that they will do without. And they demand that you stop eating it also.

This blogger does not consume couscous - I will force myself to start eating it now.

"Israeli or pearl couscous tastes more like barley than traditional couscous, with a large, pearly grain that pops in the mouth. It's slightly chewy and utterly delicious."
[Source: http://www.thekitchn.com/ this post: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/noodles-pasta-and-grains/trader-joes-pantry-harvest-grains-blend-033688 Trader Joe's Pantry: Harvest Grains Blend]

Sounds yummy!

And here's a great recipe:
http://www.shutterbean.com/israeli-couscous-with-zucchini-lentils/
Please note that the recipe includes feta cheese. I believe that 'Pastures Of Eden Feta Cheese' would be an excellent choice!

"Israeli couscous goes well with grilled scapegoat".
[Source: http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/latest_anti-israel_idiocy_trad.php]

Alas, no recipe provided. But young goat (available at Halal markets) rubbed with garlic, zatar, and olive oil, grilled over coals, would probably be very good. Some zhug and pita bread alongside, and you have a feast!

shitferbrains posts to itself.

"As if the usual idiocy from the ultra-fringe weren't enough, now the pro-Palestinians wish to "de-shelve" Israeli products at Trader Joe's stores. Predictably this nonsense originated in California.
Names such as Yasmin Qureishi, Kate Raphael Bender, IJAN, The South Bay Mobilization, San Francisco Women in Black, and other known "sympathizers" are associated with the plan.
Sofar it is merely food owned by someone else that they wish to shoplift or destroy - apparently they have no intention of discarding their computers, cell-phones, text-message and anti-spam software, medications, or any other products which have Israeli content."