{"id":78848,"date":"2015-11-07T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T02:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78848"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T02:33:05","slug":"knesset-member-launches-symbolic-campaign-to-label-european-products-to-protest-antisemitic-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78848","title":{"rendered":"Knesset Member Launches Symbolic Campaign to Label European Products to Protest \u2018Antisemitic\u2019 Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Different groups have different interests. The interests of Jews, Europeans and Muslims conflict. <\/p>\n<p>Jews used to call for Palestinians to fight for their cause without violence, but that&#8217;s what BDS is &#8212; fighting for the Palestinians without violence. Jews don&#8217;t like it because it is against their interest. <\/p>\n<p>Any healthy group fights for its interests and when necessary, does it with deception and terror. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2015\/11\/06\/us-born-israeli-mk-launches-symbolic-campaign-to-label-european-products\/#\">REPORT<\/a>: Israeli Knesset member Michael Oren has launched a campaign to label European products in Israeli supermarkets, ahead of the European parliament\u2019s announcement of guidelines on how to label Israeli products from the settlements in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to show the Europeans how we feel when they mark our products,\u201d said Oren, speaking to Israeli Channel 2\u2018s Oded Ben-Ami from the aisles of an unnamed Israeli supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Oren, who posted a video of the interview on his Facebook page, clarified that he was not calling for a boycott, \u201cbut just as the Europeans want consumers to know where the Israeli products are coming from, it\u2019s also important that Israelis know that the moment they purchase crackers from Spain or beer from Belgium, you see, or chocolates from Germany, they should know that they are supporting policy that is actually antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American-born Oren \u2014 who served as Israel\u2019s ambassador to the US and subsequently wrote Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, a best-selling book about his experiences with the Obama administration \u2014 noted that although there are many territorial disputes and \u201coccupations\u201d in the world, the EU \u201cdoes not label products from Turkey, China or India, just Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different groups have different interests. The interests of Jews, Europeans and Muslims conflict. Jews used to call for Palestinians to fight for their cause without violence, but that&#8217;s what BDS is &#8212; fighting for the Palestinians without violence. Jews don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29634,9993,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabs-2","category-europe","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78849,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848\/revisions\/78849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}