Jerusalem – Activists Launch Boycott Against Kashrut Certification Products ‘Badatz’ In Battle Against Anti-IDF Incitement

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    Jerusalem – A new initiative seeking to curb violence in the ultra-Orthodox sector against young people who choose to enlist in the IDF aims to impose a financial price on organizations that support and fund the campaign against the draft law by calling on the public to boycott them.

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    In the campaign, launched Sunday by the Forum Against Incitement, the organization called on the public to boycott the Orthodox Council of Jerusalem (OCJ)—otherwise known in Israel as Badatz—which serves as the ultra-Orthodox community’s Kosher certification agency—by avoiding purchasing any food products bearing its certificate.

    In a video distributed by the new organization, an ultra-Orthodox man appears, standing nearly naked in front of the camera with the ambient sounds of a supermarket in the background.

    With every beep of a barcode scanner, an additional garment associated with Haredi attire adorns him. Eventually, as the beeps continues, more extreme and anti-Zionist props begin appearing. At first he is seen carrying a sign disparaging the IDF, then treading on an IDF uniform, and finally holding a smoldering and burnt Israeli flag.

    The Forum Against Incitement includes social activists and IDF reserve officers—secular, religious and ultra-Orthodox—who have been fighting in recent months to curb incitement against the IDF, among them Benjamin Ze’ev Tsabari, who organized a protest in march in Mea Shearim in support of Haredi soldiers, and Gadi Dimri, a member of the Bet Shemesh Zionist organization who fights attacks on IDF soldiers in his city.

    At a conference the organization plans to hold in Jerusalem this week, its members will present an “Incitement Report”, which has surveyed the activities of the OCJ and the radical Jerusalem Faction fringe group against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel over the past year, and will announce their next steps in the efforts to eradicate the phenomenon.

    Moshe Lorber, founder of Citizens for Lone Soldiers, who is also taking part in the initiative, outlined the group’s intentions and primary goals.

    “We decided to do something and to end the brutal activity of the two groups,” he said. “It is important for us to clarify that our claims are directed only at the OCJ and the Jerusalem Faction, and not at the entire Haredi community, most of whom are good citizens who contribute to the state. We also think that the activities of the two groups hurt the ultra-Orthodox.

    “In the coming months, we will work to stop the funding of these groups through the Badatz kashrut certification. There is no need to fund inflammatory groups that harm IDF soldiers and the State of Israel,” Lorber concluded.


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    misslydia128
    misslydia128
    6 years ago

    Clever idea. I hope it produces the desired result .

    6 years ago

    it’s about time.

    EisIchVus
    EisIchVus
    6 years ago

    That’s a good move. I’ll grant it to them. But כאשר יענו אותו ען ירבה וכן יפרוץ!

    6 years ago

    They should cut the government funding to the entire zip code of that area

    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    6 years ago

    the boycott will never work. people who want to be the ‘frummist’ will give preference to the products with the Eida hechsher irregardless to the price and quality of the product since they believe that the Eida product, like water or soap, etc is of higher kosher quality, when it is not always true.

    6 years ago

    lol! it wont work a dime. Bedatz produce is bought by the people supporting the anti drafting of yiddishe kinder to the treifene tzahal. While not condoning violence, it is abslutly not allowed for a yid to serve in the heretic IDF. We here in Brooklyn will support and buy Bedatz products. To all you idiots of the Zionist regime, the Bedatz does not approve violent behavior nor do they support it but unfortunatly theres no way out with the Zionist mamzerim. G d forbid our holy kids enter the IDF. Theyre lost forever. The Bedatz can handle a few boycotters. They neednt worry. Hashem is with them.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    we don’t have to worry about arab hatred there is enough sinus chinom ,

    chaimkeh
    chaimkeh
    6 years ago

    Some of the previous commentators are naive or are being deceived by their own ulterior motives. In EY, this sort of reaction is rooted in a form of Jewish self hatred While in the rest of the world they call themselves anti-Zionists (= antisemites), in EY, they call themselves anti-chareidi (= anti frumkeit). Just look at the picture in this article. Goebbels, m”s, couldn’t have done better. The issue of these crazies that block streets and go to jail for their views is only a small basis for such hatred. Don’t take either of their sides!

    LionofZion
    LionofZion
    6 years ago

    We stopped using anything with Satmar for the same reason.

    starfish
    starfish
    6 years ago

    Such a boycott is totally wrong and will not work one iota. Most boycotts are not effective, just like the BDS against Israel is doing nothing to the Israel economy. the economy in Israel is growing and getting stronger all the time and the shekel is considered one of the strongest currency in the world for the last 2 years. We have enough haters from outside and do not need any internal adversaries. Whatever action the public is asked to take should be to bring us together and not divide us. these groups if left alone will eventually fizz out. be reacting to them strongly you will only strengthen them.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    this wont work, as the people buying badatz products don’t care for the medina nor for the army, not buying Satmar products is getting harder in NY nowadays as they have cornered the chicken market with their OVERPRICED KJ meat etc, anything Satmar touches triples in price, that is why they are rich but on paper are poor so they can get section 8.

    thegreatone
    thegreatone
    6 years ago

    While i am against violence i say BRING IT ON!
    A few points:
    1. The Kashrut Certification of the Badatz has nothing to do with protests.
    2 The.Badatz is as strong of a certification as the OU.

    3.ANY food mfg who has the Badatz and will cave in to the boycotts removing the Badatz can forget to sell any products in Brooklyn,Monsey, Lakewood, Kiryas Joel etc etc. And we are taking here in the tens of millions of revenue.

    4. Satmar chasidim are sending MILLIONS of dollars each year to institutions
    Yeshiovos and girls schools who do not take money from the Medinah.

    4. We do not recognize the Torah forbidden state of Israel.

    And finally BRING IT ON the Nazi tactic of boycotting.
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    savtat
    savtat
    6 years ago

    Look pious and cause pandemonion. Sounds like a day at the fair…. too much time on their hands. Put yourself at risk like the Hesder young men and then come and talk to me.

    BarryLS1
    BarryLS1
    6 years ago

    One more thing, do you blame the IDF for all the kids off the Derech in New York, Monsey, Lakewood, Baltimore, etc. Who do you blame that on? Just foolish excuses.

    There are many dozens of IDF soldiers where I live. Not one went off the Derech. They’re Chinuch is probably a whole lot better and they are stronger in their Yiddishkeit. They also serve as great ambassadors of a Torah lifestyle to other soldiers.

    L-Chaim
    L-Chaim
    6 years ago

    IDF lay down their lives to keep frummies safe, and defend klal.
    If you have a problem with the Jewish State, don’t live there. And taking there money? Chutzpah.