Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

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By Juan Cole | Aug. 3, 2014 |


The ill-considered and remarkably brutal Gaza war likely will give further impetus to the Boycott, Sanction and Divestment movement by Western civil society to pressure Israel on its illegal actions toward the Palestinians. A thoroughgoing such European set of sanctions could cost Israel as much as $5 bn a year and more. Roughly a third of Israeli trade is with Europe, and the EU is Israel’s largest single trading partner.

Unite, the largest British trade union, has now resolved to campaign for adoption of BDS against Israel.

The Sinn Fein mayor of Newry in Northern Ireland is also calling on retailers in the town to boycott Israel.

Although the Irish government has declined to slap sanctions on Israel over the latest Gaza War, Irish civil society is generally disgusted with actions like the Gaza campaign, with its ruthless disregard for the well-being of noncombatants:

in full: http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/boycott-spreads-european.html

[Purveyor]

1. kick. Thanks for posting. +1 eom

[4now]

2. Looks like the US is going to have to give Israel

a lot more free money.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement is getting much bigger.

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3. I honestly don't see BDS as a threat, and Cole is careful with his words, he is not suggesting

it's a sure thing. What is important to watch and too soon to say presently, is what
will the fall out be from all the investigations that are taking place and what price
will all the parties pay. Some things can get away from you, even when you have
the most powerful friends in the world.

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4. That's how it started with South Africa, no? /nt

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5. Christabel Gurney

Christabel Gurney was active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1969 to 1994. She edited the AAM’s monthly newspaper Anti-Apartheid News in the 1970s and was later secretary of Notting Hill Anti-Apartheid Group. More recently she has researched and written about the history of the AAM.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of the ‘Forward to Freedom’ AAM history project in 2013.
http://www.aamarchives.org/interviews/christabel-gurney.html

When the boycott began to bite

http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/when-boycott-began-bite

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