Boycotting Jewish Industry

To be seen as utterly hateful to the scorned, ignore their enterprise, their presence, their words and their deeds as though they don't exist. The Jews as social pariahs. Somehow though, to those now embarked on the exercise thinking they are forging a brave new path to justice and morality on the world scene, it is a tired old minefield they ply, likely to blow up at any time, disabling their path of virtuous and ethical play.

Jews have long been accustomed to opprobrium, to isolation, to slander, to violence directed toward them. They know there is no shame in being cast out by intellectual and sanctimonious barbarians. For a tribe whom the world has traditionally set upon as a symbol of everything that they feel is wrong with the world, it is limited in numbers, but capable, despite the most horrendously inhumane measures to destroy their presence, to carry on, comport themselves with dignity and patience.

The patience is required to remind themselves that they've seen it all, experienced it all before, many times. In the knowledge that Jews have been singled out expressly by a war juggernaut to use rare resources, time and manpower on an officially institutionalized exercise in mass annihilation, and managed despite monumental life-loss to surmount the hatred and the slaughter, Jews are almost, but not quite, immune to the virulence of anti-Semitism.

A member of Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew,
who is forced to kneel before a mass grave full of other victims.

As an intelligent tribe, capable of using their naturally-endowed creative energy and grey matter to good use, Jews cannot themselves fathom the depths of lunatic dysfunction that would turn the world into a mad, slavering beast anxious to annihilate those they are swift to identify as other than themselves. But experience is a great teacher, and one need not be a genius to understand that hatred is a lethal disease leading to fear, paranoia and destruction.

Time may pass and events alter the manner in which the world views itself, but it seems that the passage of time does nothing to divert the popular masses, particularly those who must absorb a passion and choose the passion of hatred and racism to devote themselves to to give meaning to their lives. Israel looks for solutions, in representing itself as a haven for Jews in a world determined they should find no place for themselves, no sanctuary where they will be safe from hatred.

True enough, in choosing to return to the land of their heritage, where the nation emerged as a separate human grouping from others around them, they have positioned themselves geographically to bear the more immediate brunt of savagery expressed toward Jews living in the State of Israel, propelled by surrounding enemies of ancient origin. And it is Israel's response to continued violent attacks against its existence that infuriates its critics abroad; that Israel is capable of enduring all.

Militants prepared to execute Palestinians in Gaza City suspected of spying for Israel. Up to 18 were killed. Credit Reuters

Each time Israel rises to defend itself from attack, to strike back at those who strike it with the intention of destroying it, the world of external critics rise in fury to condemn the Jewish state for protecting its citizens from doom. The Boycott/Divestment strategy of the Israel-haters, Jew-baiters represents a civilized version of active conflict, with the hoped-for end result that it should succeed to destroy the country's economic future.

In Europe, mobs of hate-suffused leftist righteousness march with signs aloft proclaiming solidarity with Hitler and the gas chambers, lamenting their lack of total existential success. Where not only consumer products emanating from Israel itself, but those produced elsewhere in Europe for the Jewish market are the object of boycott. Threats and violence accompany the process, and many retailers anxiously accede to the demands, clearing their stock of offending items.

In the streets Jews are attacked, their freedoms violated, their synagogues and community centres fire-bombed, looted and desecrated. In North America the more popular and trendy view is to use barcode-reading smartphone apps to single out Israeli made products.  Or they target companies with Jewish ownership. And now that summer is gone for another year it is time for universities to reactivate the popular campus activities so the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement is not neglected.

Foods brought on campus that have a Jewish-owned or Israeli-made provenance are considered a red flag for those dedicated to Israel's downfall. Any links to Israel are forbidden to prove that those involved have a conscience and will not tolerate the support in any measure of what they claim to be an Apartheid state. University students with exposure to higher education feel they can smell apartheid in a country that gives equal citizenship rights to Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims, Druze and Kurds.

In comparison, say to the area they champion as Palestine where Jews may not enter unless they court dismemberment. The encircling wall, they claim, is ample evidence of apartheid, when it was in fact an costly emergency measure required to bring to a halt continued mass slaughter known as suicide-attacks where all-too-willing aspirant martyrs found their way to Paradise by killing as many Jewish civilians as possible, to be later celebrated for the passion of their hate.

Student union leaders might think of hurting Israel economically where it really counts; not in defying the distribution on campus of food products, which they do, finding anything labelled 'kosher', or 'Israel', monstrously disgusting, but by selecting products which express Israel's true prosperity, its production in the high-tech sector. Which would then lead them to boycott the use of a wide range of Jew-tainted technology.



Boycotting Google with its two research and development centres located in Israel. Eschew the use of iPhones, flash drives, instant messaging, voicemail and allied products whole or in part invented in Israel. Insist on no longer using Word, Excel and other products invented by Microsoft Israel, and cease the use of computers powered by Israeli Intel processors. Someone should whisper in their ears that every major IT company in the West relies on their R&D divisions in Israel, or on Israeli patents.