Sydney, Australia – Marrickville Council has joined a global boycott of Israel over its occupation of the Palestinian territories. It is believed to be the first Australian local council to do so.
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The Greens and Labor-dominated council voted 10-2 to cut links with organisations that support the Israeli occupation, and ban any academic, government, sporting or cultural exchanges with Israel.
The Greens councillor Cathy Peters, who put the motion at last week’s meeting, said the council was representing the feelings of its multicultural community and its sister-city relationship with the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
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Vivienne Porzsolt of Jews Against the Occupation welcomed the move to put pressure on Israel.
But Vic Alhadeff of the Jewish Board of Deputies, said the boycott was ”an exercise in rank hypocrisy that has everything to do with local politics and nothing to do with the realities of the Middle East”.
First they should throw away their mobile phones and computers, as more than likely some components are from Israel. And anyway, how would a council in Sydney affect Israeli trade.
I guess it’s the “in thing” to be against Israel. It makes you popular in secular leftist society circles. For every person that doesn’t buy something Israeli, I buy three though, so this is pointless on their end.
That means that they can’t use intell, microsoft 7, text messaging and a host of other other latest computer tech.
This will be the norm all over the world in those countries that have allowed hundreds of thousands or even millions of Muslims into their countries. Australia is a lay-back beautiful country with very generous social welfare and no wonder that there are so many boatloads of Muslims trying to get in. (A week ago a boat sunk killing 30 people) And they will repay Australians by the bucketload in a few years.
In the case of Marrickville, there is nothing there to boycott in response. In general, Jews should counter-boycott the anchor businesses of any town that engages in these boycotts, including pressuring vendors and customers of such businesses with loss of business if they fail to break commercial ties with the targeted counter-boycott companies.
An example (only hypothetical) would be a boycott of Kodak if Rochester passed a boycott resolution.