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List of Israeli Goods and produce

  • 31-05-2010 07:54PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭


    Is there anywhere I can find a list of Israeli goods and produce sold in Irish stores so that I can know which brands to hereby boycott? Would appreciate any information on this.

    Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question, I'm sure the mods will move it if appropriate.

    Please keep this thread specifically for a list of Israeli Goods and Produce and do not derail it with a discussion of topics for which there are already other threads.

    Thanks,
    Memnoch.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,477 ✭✭✭newbie2


    jaffa oranges


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    The menu on the left here..

    https://www.israel-catalog.com/product.asp?Product=7862&kbid=1180

    Should give you some ideas. Not sure him much if it would be available of here though. Not checked the list thoroughly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭Memnoch


    Thanks will be keeping an eye out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Will probably be links on www.ipsc.ie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,011 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    I think you also need to examine repatriation of profits from external enterprise back to Israel. Companies where Israelis hold shares for example. Lets face it, its a globalised world where "Made in X" doesnt mean that much anymore. The most important part for hitting them where it hurts is stopping the flow of money from their investments.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    You can buy Palestinian Olive Oil from a few places in town: http://www.zaytoun.org/

    I have heard that some Israeli products are actually produced on Occupied Territories but labelled as Israeli.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭taytothief


    A lot of the herbs and vegetables in tesco come from Israel I think. 2 birds with one stone;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭Memnoch


    taytothief wrote: »
    A lot of the herbs and vegetables in tesco come from Israel I think. 2 birds with one stone;)

    What about Dunnes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    Sand wrote: »
    I think you also need to examine repatriation of profits from external enterprise back to Israel. Companies where Israelis hold shares for example. Lets face it, its a globalised world where "Made in X" doesnt mean that much anymore. The most important part for hitting them where it hurts is stopping the flow of money from their investments.
    better disconnect your fone lines, cancel your mobile fones, as virtually all Irish operators (not sure about 3) use Israeli billing/credit tracking software.
    While at it, I'd say it's impossible that any packets of data reaching your PC via the internet has not traveled though Israeli software/firewall hardware. Better get rid of the internet too.
    and, Oh, your Sky sat, better cancel that too. The encryption used for the subscriptions cards is Israeli too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Most Stanley brand tools are made in Israel.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    Hmm what about Intel chips some of which are made in Israel, oh and if you have sky you'll have to get rid of that as well, security software is built by an Israeli company.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭taytothief


    Memnoch wrote: »
    What about Dunnes?

    I don't know about Dunnes. In tesco, most of the vegetables and fresh herbs have a section on the packaging that says "produce of ..." on it. There is Irish produce as well so don't avoid all of it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    and no Luas for you.

    http://www.bigcampaign.org/index.php?page=veolia
    The Veolia parent company is Veolia Environnement, a French multinational. Veolia Transport, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, is a leading partner in the CityPass consortium, contracted to build a light rail tramway system linking west Jerusalem to illegal Jewish settlements such as Pisgat Ze'ev, French Hill, Neve Ya'akov and Gilo in occupied east Jerusalem. Once built, the rail system will help to cement Israel's hold on occupied east Jerusalem and tie the settlements even more firmly into the State of Israel. And not only the settlements in east Jerusalem: the project states that the “Ammunition Hill” station of the network will operate as the feeder station for settler traffic from Ma’aleh Adumim, a large Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and from Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,772 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    silverharp wrote: »
    I understand Veolia sold their shareholding, although there were some legal issue to be cleared up.

    This is what Lynch mobs end up with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Any consumer boycott will only ever be targeting a very small % of their exports. I doubt it the Israeli government will lose much sleep over a tiny fraction of 1%



    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/israel-gaza-attacks-boycotts-food-industry
    The bulk of Israeli export is in components, especially hi-tech products such as Intel chips and flashcards for mobile phones. It is thought that the consumer goods targeted by boycott campaigns represent around 3% to 5% of the Israeli export economy.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Bogger77 wrote: »
    better disconnect your fone lines, cancel your mobile fones, as virtually all Irish operators (not sure about 3) use Israeli billing/credit tracking software....

    Well, all you need to do to boycott the Israeli component is to refuse to pay bills generated by Israeli software.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Bogger77 wrote: »
    better disconnect your fone lines, cancel your mobile fones, as virtually all Irish operators (not sure about 3) use Israeli billing/credit tracking software.
    While at it, I'd say it's impossible that any packets of data reaching your PC via the internet has not traveled though Israeli software/firewall hardware. Better get rid of the internet too.
    and, Oh, your Sky sat, better cancel that too. The encryption used for the subscriptions cards is Israeli too.

    So basically do nothing would be your opinion then ?

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Another good idea is to actively donate money to Palestinian aid groups, on a regular basis, and encourage others to do so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    jmayo wrote: »
    So basically do nothing would be your opinion then ?
    I never said pro or anti boycott
    Just mentioning how difficult it would be live a "normal" life in Ireland, if you were to start, unless it was a token effort, which most of the boycotters will do, in my experience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    Already only buy Irish :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    Well, all you need to do to boycott the Israeli component is to refuse to pay bills generated by Israeli software.
    in reality, the paper bills is a minor part, and may not even be part of the same solution as the billing software.
    In telco's, the software that tracks the time, destination and cost plan of a call, sms, mms or data, that checks if those are "free" minutes, that check to see if there's credit on prepay, that works out your minutes left (text bal to 1907 on vf, etc), through to passing the billing details to the bill printing software is "billing software". Even the check to see if your account is allowed to make or receive calls is done by the billing software.

    So not paying your bills, is a token gesture, at best, and may even be against the wrong software provider!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Sesshoumaru


    silverharp wrote: »
    Any consumer boycott will only ever be targeting a very small % of their exports. I doubt it the Israeli government will lose much sleep over a tiny fraction of 1%



    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/israel-gaza-attacks-boycotts-food-industry

    If someone gave up all the modern conveniences of life and lived in a cave, would this hurt Israel?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Nodin wrote: »
    Another good idea is to actively donate money to Palestinian aid groups, on a regular basis, and encourage others to do so.

    You might as well just take out the middle man and donate money to Hamas or Islamic Jihad :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Pauleta wrote: »
    You might as well just take out the middle man and donate money to Hamas or Islamic Jihad :rolleyes:

    It never ceases to amaze me how "Hamas" has become the new bogey man in relation to the Palestinian question. However, your stereotype is inaccurate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Iscar must be boycotted.

    Anyone in the engineering business would be familiar with Iscar (Abreviated Israeli Carbide) Manufacturer of precision carbide metal working tools.

    Unions should also instruct their workers not to use these tools.

    http://www.iscar.co.il/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Bogger77 wrote: »
    in reality, the paper bills is a minor part, and may not even be part of the same solution as the billing software.
    In telco's, the software that tracks the time, destination and cost plan of a call, sms, mms or data, that checks if those are "free" minutes, that check to see if there's credit on prepay, that works out your minutes left (text bal to 1907 on vf, etc), through to passing the billing details to the bill printing software is "billing software". Even the check to see if your account is allowed to make or receive calls is done by the billing software.

    So not paying your bills, is a token gesture, at best, and may even be against the wrong software provider!

    I think the Telco has to be named for this to be proven.

    Write to your telco and ask is their IN, SMSC, MSC, SRF, Billing System or any system involved in the transfer or monitoring of services to you in anyway under licence or support contract to an Isreali company.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    A boycott of food stuff from Israel won't hurt the Israeli economy much but it's a sign that people disapprove of a country. It's a political statement instead of doing "business as usual".

    Herbs like chives, peppermint or parsley are on offer from Israel in almost all shops (Tesco, Gala etc.). As well as potatoes, especially salad or "baby" potatoes. Then there are avocados and oranges.
    There are Irish herbs and potatoes, spanish oranges and avocados from god knows where. So why buy these goods from Israel? Just read the labels before grabbing the stuff.

    The herbs especially are usually from occupied areas not even from Israel as such. Grown by Israeli farmers, though.

    Does anyone remember the boycott of South African foods during the Apartheid? Here again it didn't damage their economy but it was a clear statement that the ordinary consumer does care and has a say in a modest way.
    But you have to make sure that the retailers know about it. Ask them why they are selling stuff from far away instead of supporting Irish farmers, why they support a rogue country which doesn't care much about human rights or international conventions. Make sure other customers hear your questions.

    It might not seem to make a big impact, but it shows that consumers are not ignorant sheep.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Zambia232 wrote: »
    I think the Telco has to be named for this to be proven.

    Write to your telco and ask is their IN, SMSC, MSC, SRF, Billing System or any system involved in the transfer or monitoring of services to you in anyway under licence or support contract to an Isreali company.

    Amdocs is one of the main telco billing system producers. You may well end up with no mobile phone if you go that route as I am pretty sure all the main people (Telefonica, Voda and Three) use their systems. If not in Ireland then elsewhere. Amdocs also purchased an Irish software company last year.

    Btw, did we all boycott McDonalds, Microsoft or Coca Cola when the US invaded Iraq, or would that have been to much of an inconvenience?

    All these Israelis we plan on making unemployed, do we know what their opinion is on the blockade or are they just guilty of being Israeli?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    Instead of people boycotting buying them shouldn't it be the companies boycotting to sell them?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Amdocs is one of the main telco billing system producers. You may well end up with no mobile phone if you go that route as I am pretty sure all the main people (Telefonica, Voda and Three) use their systems. If not in Ireland then elsewhere. Amdocs also purchased an Irish software company last year.

    Btw, did we all boycott McDonalds, Microsoft or Coca Cola when the US invaded Iraq, or would that have been to much of an inconvenience?

    I boycott McDonalds on health and taste grounds and have done so long before America ever invaded anyone, well maybe not Grenada ;)

    I boycott Coca Cola to a large degree due to their operations in South America, but sadly they own fanta, sprite and a host of other brands.

    I wish to God I could boycott MS but it is a little hard if you work in IT industry. :rolleyes:
    Sooner or later you have to use their products. :(

    I am not allowed discuss …



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