Morton Zuckerman’s newspaper, the Daily News, has an alarmist argument against the Park Slope coop boycott proposal that likens boycotting Israel to Nazi actions in Germany. It is titled “Kauft Nicht Bei Juden. Don’t Buy From Jews!” and has a big photograph of Nazis at the top. Rabbi Yaakov Spivak says that the boycott is anti-Semitic and writes angrily about pogroms. Wow, this is nuts:
In this day and age, anti-Semitism has had to reinvent itself in order to mask its malicious intentions. The anti-Semite is quite resourceful, and in the past few decades he has come up with a politically correct sham: “You see,” he tells a gullible media, “it is not the Jew that I despise, it is that evil robber state Israel.” Indeed, Israel is the new excuse for the old anti-Semite and his trembling, quivering yes-man, the self hating Jew….
I have a proposal for these Israel haters in Park slope:
If you don’t want to use Israeli products, then be consistent. Stop using your cell phone. Stop using your computer. Stop using the medical advances from Israel that daily save countless lives. Be consistent. If you or your loved ones need a life-saving Israeli medicine or medical device, in the name of consistency turn it down. After all, that product is from Israel, a robber state surrounded by loving countries such as Syria and Saudi Arabia, whose products I am sure you would never boycott.
Who you kiddin’, man?
Let me say this to those anti-Israel members of the Park Slope Co-op: I and my friends will not take this sitting down. Plans are in the works to find a legal, peaceful way to stand in front of your misguided co-op and offer – for free – Israeli products to those who pass by your establishment.
