Below is a list of companies in Amman that support Israel. Do not purchase any of their products under any circumstances because they will donate a part of their profits to Israel.
It then goes on to list 15 corporations.
Let's start with the fact that this is a Jordanian campaign. Article 7 of the Israel-Jordan Peace Agreement requires the parties "to remove all discriminatory barriers to normal economic relations, to terminate economic boycotts directed at each other, and to co-operate in terminating boycotts against either Party by third parties." This campaign is thus in violation of a solemn treaty entered into by the Hashemite kingdom.
Second, Jordanian citizenship law deny citizenship to Jews (there are no Jews in Jordan). During Jordanian occupation of Judea and Samaria, Jews were excluded from Jordanian citizenship by law.
Third, let's look at just the first company listed: Starbucks. Starbucks doesn't actually operate in Israel (it tried to but lost money and left the market). It does operate in a number of Arab countries. It does negotiate with unions (one of the only coffee chains that has unionized workers). So, why is it targeted?
Here is the simple answer:
In summary. Starbucks’ chair Howard Schutltz (sic) is an active zionist (sic) whose own activities include running propaganda seminars on behalf of Israel across campuses in both North America and Israel.. Let me put it plainer, Howard Schultz is a JEW! Well that makes things clearer, doesn't it!
- just so it is not lost on the reader, in the same website where countries with startbucks locations are listed (with Muslim ones in bold), Israel (Palestine) is listed in bold. There are two obvious problems with this. First, Starbucks doesn't do business in Israel at the current time. The second problem is that Israel is not a Muslim state.
To put it plainly, this kind of boycott, based on the ethnicity of the owner, is simply a carrying forward of the Arab boycott (which was simply a carrying forward of the Nazi boycott). Starting in 1936, Arab leaders called for a boycott of Jewish businesses in the Palestine Mandate. This policy was then broadened by the Arab league in the aftermath of the 1948 war (in which the stated objectives of the Arab armies was the liquidation of the Jewish population of Israel). The current call for boycotts simply continues this pattern.
Should trade unionists be supporting such actions? Boycotts based on ethnicity? Boycotts whose origins are clearly racist? Boycotts that violate signed peace treaties? Really? Gimme a break.
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