Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Moment of Activism for you People: Stop the Bomb, Anti Boycott at Trader Joes

Please sign, takes a minute!

http://de.stopthebomb.net/en/start/germany/sign-now.html#c324

Recieved this Re TRADER JOES:

Greetings StandWithUs Activists,

A group of anti-Israel protesters are apparently trying to boycott Trader
Joe
's for selling Israeli products. (See "Don't Buy Into
Apartheid<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=86106513889>"
and the YouTube clips and comments on the page.) The organizers, a group
calling itself "Quit Palestine http://www.facebook.com/l/;<http://www.quitpalestine.org/dbia/>," is
calling for stores to "cleanse their shelves of products that support
occupation and apartheid" and offering their supporters "resources for [image:
http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs037.snc1/4337_204337230346_616965346_7139081_3776014_n.jpg]you
to create disencentives for stores to stock Israeli products."



According to blogger Bluetruth, one of the retailers targeted in this
campaign is Trader Joe's, which carries many Israeli-made products. Trader
Joe's has resisted the call to change its policies, and so the
boycott-divestment-sanctions (BDS) guys have called for a "de-shelving" of
Trader Joe's from Israeli products this Saturday, June 20. This creates an
opportunity for friends of Israel to express their support while also
shopping for groceries.



You can help! Here's what Bluetruth suggests:



Go to your local Trader Joe's http://www.facebook.com/l/;<http://www.traderjoes.com/locations.asp> and
do three things on June 20 (or, if you are shomer Shabbat, on June 19):

1. Buy a whole bunch of Israeli products (if they are off the shelf, maybe
someone else read this and bought the entire stock-- so go to the store
manager and tell him/her they need to buy more!)

2. Tell the store manager to keep stocking these products because you really
like them!

3. Also tell the store manager that anti-Israel groups have declared June 20
as a "National Day to De-Shelve Israeli Products" so they can be aware of
potential efforts to shoplift, deface or otherwise vandalize these products

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