Comments on: BUYcott Israeli goods at Waitrose and Morrisons!

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:26:35 +0000

I’m a long standing supporter of Israel and try to purchase goods from the settlements when ever I can. I agree that a boycott of Israeli goods would also hurt the Arabs, they are reliant on Israeli goods as their prodcution economy has collapsed due to successful restrictions. Perhaps there should be a food festival where we could promote these goods and show the world how we have rolled back the dessert.

By: Angel

Angel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:25:02 +0000

It seems you missed the Israel: Off Your Trolley event in Newcastle Upon Tyne which managed to enter several shops within the city centre flashmob style and will be creating more events of a similar nature in the very near future. Google the event, there are many listings, how did you miss this??

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:53:14 +0000

I always look for Israeli products when I’m buying fruit and vegetables. If they don’t stock them, I don’t buy any!
Anyone boycotting Israeli produce has no idea of what’s going on over there! They are happily being brainwashed by the anti-Semitic British media!

By: Anja

Anja — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:40:32 +0000

I wish I would have read it earlier… In fact, I saw a demonstration in front of Waitrose at Brunswick Square, but I didn’t realise that it was a boycott campaign against products from Israel. From now on I’ll pay more attention to buying specifically Israeli products. Their fruits, vegs and herbs anyway mostly have better quality then cheaper products from other countries so it’s also a good opportunity to do something good for myself.

By: Nick Johnstone

Nick Johnstone — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:06:15 +0000

Hi
Just to say: some of these so called activists ‘stormed’ Waitrose Marble Arch while I was shopping on Friday 13 November 2009 and unfurled their hate-spreading banner calling for the boycott of Israeli products. I was pleased to see that while one such ‘protester’ ranted and raved about the apparent terrorizing of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers (laughably manipulated and inaccurate), a Muslim woman stepped up and told him and his cronies, that hateful protests such as theirs, would only make her buy more Israeli products. She then gave them what for about Hamas’ barbaric methods of government, which left the activists, somewhat lost for words, as they were clearly hoping to score points by ‘protesting’ at a supermarket in the heart of Arab London. As she put it, they were promoting hate, not peace. She called their protest “anti-semitic”. I joined her denouncing the protesters. Afterwards, at the checkout, as per usual, my basket was filled with deliberately hand-picked Israeli produce.
Nick Johnstone

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:52:11 +0000

Well done you guys, I just read this report from the Jerusalem Post:-

‘Call to boycott Israeli goods had no impact on trade’

LONDON – Last week’s call by anti-Israel activists for people to boycott Israeli goods at two of the UK’s largest supermarkets appears to have passed with no major impact.

Radical fringe group Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) called for a week of boycott action and protests against Morrison’s and Waitrose supermarkets and said they would flood the supermarket’s help lines with nuisance calls throughout the day on Wednesday.

Morrison’s declined to comment but Waitrose declared there had been no impact at all on trade during the week.

“Our customer services department has responded to calls in their normal way,” a Waitrose spokesperson said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1258027288768

By: Rhoda Boughton

Rhoda Boughton — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:18:41 +0000

Gratified to learn that the response to the boycott has been so successful. I have learned that to speak out, to act in support of just causes, such as Buycott, is the most effective action one can take in defense of human rights.
It is heart breaking to see the UN, which in my memory, had such a promising beginning become a tool of tyrannical forces. Now it seems that only through individual acts to defend our brothers and sisters from harm can we hope to promote peace.May we all gain success in this pursuit.

Rhoda Boughton

By: Sara Saber Freedman

Sara Saber Freedman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:05:54 +0000

Dear friends,

We are so happy to see people worldwide pick up on this initiative.

I’d like to share a couple of impressions from our experience here in Canada. The first thing to remember is that just as boycott is a propoganda strategy (more than an economic strategy), so, too, is BUYcott. What that emans in practice is that it is more than just going and buying Israeli goods. It means just what you’re doing with Waitrose and Morrisons: tactically deploying activists to buy up Israeli goods in response to a boycott.

The key is to TAKE PICTURES (videos are better still) of you and your friends clearing out the stock, and post them on youtube afterwards. Do thank the store for carrying the merchandise (the person who commented that the store management was unaware and unhappy about the boycott sends an important message about positively reinforcing the store managers who after all just want to turn a profit) and publish (on the web, in local Jewish media, wherever) your success.

You don’t want to get into an argument with the boycotters, or create any sort of obstruction or headache for the store, or behave in a way that will cause passerby to think “a plague on both their houses”. The idea is really to humilliate the boycotters in your follow up communications.

By the way, we did a BUYcott of Ahava in Montreal last weekend, and the store had to put on an additional cashier to handle the demand. They tossed the boycott fellow out (security guard shoved him right out the door!. )

By: Colin Linder

Colin Linder — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:13:24 +0000

Just to let you know that today I bought lots of delicious Israeli sharon fruit and really good quality mixed Israeli peppers from Waitrose at the Spires shopping centre in Hight St Barnet. Well done, Waitrose.