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Cracking Down on Israel?(rumors about anti-Israel boycotts in Europe)(Brief Article)
All sorts of rumors are being peddled these days about anti-Israel boycotts in Europe. Here's a tip: don't believe everything you hear. European activists are certainly upset about the military crackdown in the West Bank, but they're not having much economic impact. According to one tale, Norway is actively aiding consumer protests by marking Israeli imports with a star. The facts are quite different. In early April the boss of one Norwegian supermarket chain threatened to stop selling Israeli products--and the chain's parent company promptly overruled him. Israeli goods remain on the stores' shelves. They are labeled, but not with stars and not by government policy.
The 15-nation European Union (Norway is not a member) requires that all Israeli goods be marked as such, even though Israel enjoys preferential trade status with the EU. Imports from anywhere outside the EU are supposed to display their country of origin. The EU's toothless legislature, the European Parliament, voted a few weeks ago to call for a suspension of Israel's preferential status, but the real governing body, the Council of the European Commission, just shrugged ...
- Israel boycotts world court hearing on barrier, plans media blitz.(Knight...
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...avoid the evidence of targeting Israel, rather than doing more on human...Whitson continued to promote anti-Israel boycotts, and in May 2009, Whitson led...Arabia, where she denounced "pro-Israel pressure groups," which "tried...
- Boycotts: Cracking Down on Israel? Retaliation in the market against Israel can...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Moseley, --Leila Foroohar, Rana July 15, 2002 700+ words
...peddled these days about anti-Israel boycotts in Europe. Here's a tip: don...be marked as such, even though Israel enjoys preferential trade status...ago to call for a suspension of Israel's preferential status, but the...
- Polish press review 10/07/2006 - Government & Economy.
- Newspaper article from: Poland Business News July 10, 2006 700+ words
...consider it as worse. [Gazeta Wyborcza] POLITICS: Israel Boycotts Poland's Education Minister - Spokesman for the...given by international press agencies suggesting that Israel boycotts Polish Minister of Education Roman Giertych, due...
