[ April 23, 2024 ]
Yellow star for a label perhaps.
This is no different from the Nazi boycott of the Jews. Now it’s all of Europe.
Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products
Legal decision reminiscent of Holocaust-era boycotts of Jews
Story continues below advertisementBy Adam Kredo, Washington Free beacon, August 12, 2019:
The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels, a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws and open up what legal experts describe as a “Pandora’s box” of litigation, according to multiple sources involved in the legal dispute who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice recently issued non-binding opinion arguing that EU law requires Israeli-made products to be labeled as coming from “settlements” and “Israeli colonies.”
The decision was seen as a major win for supporters of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which seeks to wage economic warfare on Israel and its citizens. Pro-Israel activists, as well as the Jewish businesses involved in the legal dispute, see the decision as an ominous warning sign that they say is reminiscent of Holocaust-era boycotts of Jewish businesses.
With the EU court’s 15 judge panel now poised to issue its own binding judgment in the case, legal experts are warning that a potential decision mandating such labeling could pave the way for goods from any disputed territory to receive such treatment. The decision also could trigger U.S. anti-boycott laws meant to stop Israeli-made goods from being singled out for unfair treatment on the international market.
Brooke Goldstein, a human rights lawyer and executive director of the Lawfare Project, which is involved in the legal dispute, described the EU court’s initial decision as “frankly outrageous.”
“The Advocate General’s opinion said that goods produced by Muslims are to be labeled from ‘Palestine,’ and goods produced by Jews labeled as coming from ‘Israeli colonies,’ Goldstein said. “Both people are living in the same geographic location, and yet Jewish goods are being treated differently.”
“Could the discrimination be any clearer?” she asked. “If the EU Court justifies this bigotry it will degrade the rule of law in Europe and it will undoubtedly have many unintended consequences for EU traders. My understanding is that certain consumer protection agencies have already filed complaints to demand the similar labeling of goods from other disputed territories. This labeling fiasco will turn into a nightmare for EU importers of goods from any and all countries involved in territorial disputes. I trust the court will maintain that goods must be labeled indicating the geographical location of origin, and reject the push to politicize labeling.”
The legal dispute first began after France passed a law mandating that products made in the West Bank territory of Israel be labeled as coming from an “Israeli colony,” a label not applied to any other products across the globe.
The term “Israeli colony” is not legally required to be applied under EU law and was seen as overly burdensome by Israeli business leaders.
Following the French decision, the Israeli Psagot winery filed a lawsuit alleging unlawful discrimination against Jewish companies. That lawsuit eventually made its way to Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice.
That court now appears poised to affirm the advocate general’s opinion mandating that Israeli goods be labeled in a fashion that opponents say is unfair and anti-Semitic in nature.
“I am not a psychologist, so I can’t tell you what the motives are behind Europe’s targeting of Jewish-owned businesses. Perhaps it is anti-Semitism rearing its ugly head again, perhaps it is blind ignorance, or even a desire to do the right thing,” Yaakov Berg, CEO of the Psagot winery, told the Free Beacon. “Regardless, the application of the current EU trade directive to label goods from Jewish producers, and only Jewish producers in the West Bank is discriminatory and illegal.”
Berg maintains that Jewish businesses should not be penalized for policies enacted by the Israeli government that European leaders object to.
“We are not the Israeli government,” he said. “Psagot winery is not responsible for Israeli government policy. But because we are Jewish owners of a winery in a beautiful and hotly contested land, we are being targeted and punished. And we are being punished precisely because we are Jews living in Judea where we have every right to be, as do the Palestinian Arabs and Druze and the Christians.”
“No one should be discriminated against because of their religion,” Berg said. “If you support a Palestinian state, would you support a Judenrein state of Palestine? That seems to be what the EU is proposing when it says Jewish businesses are illegal in Palestine but Muslim businesses are not, in the same location! Such a de facto boycott of Jewish products, the likes of which we have not seen since Nazi Germany, would definitely run afoul of U.S. law.”
Yohan Benizri, a lawyer representing Psagot, warned that a decision affirming the labels for Jewish-made goods could open the door to other types of overly onerous labeling.
“One doesn’t need legal training to recognize the unintended consequences of the EU adopting a policy of politicized labeling,” Benizri said. “If the EU Court rules that geographic location is not enough, and that EU law mandates every product coming from either a ‘disputed territory’ or a country with ‘objectionable social policies’ be labeled as such, then EU markets will be thrown into chaos.”
“Can you imagine a situation where plastic cups imported from China must be labeled ‘this country has a one-child policy,’ or gas from Russia must be labeled, ‘This is gas from a country that illegally occupies Crimea,’ or products from the United States require the labeling ‘the U.S. engages in capital punishment and is building an illegal border wall?’ Product labels will have become political billboards depending on the whims of EU politicians, and every EU importer will shoulder a liability for not complying with arbitrary labeling laws.”
A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration has been clear in its objection to the BDS movement and efforts to single out the Jewish state.
“The State Department is aware of this particular issue,” the official said. “The administration’s position strongly opposing all efforts to boycott, delegitimize, or isolate Israel is well-known.”
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58 Comments
4 years ago
Europe poised to put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products. The next step, all European Jews will be mandated to wear the antisemitic, Jude, Yellow Star of David. Nor will this bigotry stop with the Jew-Hating EU, it shall become rampant throughout the West.
Nationalists, Conservatives are deemed the Neo-Nazis, while those of the Leftist-Nazi-Globalist movement are, in truth, the quintessential Neo-Nazis.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
It’s about time we pull out troops out of Germany and anywhere else in Europe. It’s just a matter of time before Europe is a modern version of East Germany anyway. We pulled their asses out of the fire twice and that is enough.
4 years ago
Reply to
Joe Bob
I couldn’t agree more, Joe Bob. There are a few exceptions however, Hungary, Poland and others not kissing the a** of the totalitarian EU. The Europeans are on their own or should be left to sleep in the shat they created. Indeed, no more American or allied lives must be spent to salvage this fetid embodiment of self-created despotism.
4 years ago
Reply to
Joe Bob
NATO is a scam. Trump talks about bad deals and the U.S. getting taken advantage of, well, after the U.N., NATO is almost as bad. We need to withdraw from NATO which is a bad deal for us. We foot the vast majority of the bill and get nothing in return. Moreover, we protect Germany presumably from the Russians, and in return, Germany buys gas from the Russians whom we pay to protect them from. Also, Norway and Denmark benefit significantly as we prevent Russia from claiming the Arctic and all its potential mineral and energy riches, and all that North Sea oil that’s made Norway one of the richest countries in the world.
4 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
I agree on one level…..but isolationism is not the answer….wasn’t it Woodrow Wilson who tried that?
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Wilson promised “isolationism”: to get elected and then promptly involved us in WW I and then master minded the League of Nations. Wilson was no isolationist. He was a typical lying, deceitful Democrat.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Yes, Wilson promised “isolationism” but German unrestricted sub attacks involved the USA in WW I.
FDR promised “isolationism” also but it was Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack that involved the USA in WW II.
To sit out either war would have made the world a darker place.
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I am not an isolationist and agree I that isolationism is not the answer, but I also don’t think we should be footing the bill for Europe’s defense when Europeans are extremely ungrateful for all we do, and have done, for them. They don’t even like us. They arrogantly mock us, make fun of us, belittle us, criticize us, all while benefiting significantly from us at our expense. At a minimum, those who receive our help should at least like, respect and appreciate us, and Europeans definitely do not.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
EU = 4th Reich . . .
I can now understand how the Euro countries are going to ally with the ME countries to eventually attack Israel.
4 years ago
Reply to
Charles Martell III
Indeed, I believe that the EU and its ME appendages plotting the downfall of Israel began a decade ago. Israel is deemed the Great Satan, as is the US by the EU and the Islam/Arab states of the ME. The usurping of Trump or the Democratic-Nazis overtake the White House, Israel will face great the wrath by not merely the ME but the entirety of the Western-Fascists.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
The Western EU states and NATO are now toast.
The USA should demand the British and French turn over all their nukes before the muslims finish taking over completely.
4 years ago
Warning labels my ar$e. They’ll be the priducts I for one will always aim to purchase. Better those than purchasing cr$p from stinking ‘Slimes.
4 years ago
Reply to
BP
THERE is no such thing as Islam
– it is just ordinary tyranny
– that has wrapped itself in religious piety
– just as Aristotle described in 350 BC
– ALL tyrants claim moral purity
– to justify hate, violence, and subjugation
– and Islamist tyrants have no real religion
– but subjugation of the citizenry
– Socialist tyrants wrap themselves
– in the Communist Manifesto, and claim to help the poor
– but they make poverty worse
– Islamist tyrants wrap themselves in the Koran
– and demand ‘Islam’ [= submission]
– and they make people’s lives worse
– because poor, sick, ignorant people
– are easier to subjugate
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It’s been a death cult for 1400 years….the first war that America fought was under Jefferson and it was the Muslims of the Barbary Coast….and here we are…still doing it in the ME….right now its a “culture” war in the US….how long before it’s a real war?
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Your post is probably the most irrelevant and inappropriate response that I have seen.
What do “people with self defense weapons” have to do with islam, Israel, and EU labeling requirements?
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
“…Islamist tyrants have no real religion” I disagree w/this statement. Bill Warner defines political islam as the part that deals w/the kafir, but it is still an integral part of the muslum death cult and your attempts to separate it from islam border on apologia.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
ALL Islam is just ordinary tyranny
– the Koran is a tyrant instruction manual
– Mohamed was just an ordinary tyrant
– of the type described by Aristotle
– who wrapped himself in religion
– the way ALL tyrants clam to have high morality
– and then Mohamed set out to subjugate as many people as possible
– until he died a tyrant’s death
– there is nothing in the Koran or the Communist Manifesto
– that is unique or special
– except a list of excuses why hate, violence, and subjugation
– are desirable, or acceptable
4 years ago
Another weapon Boris can use in his argument against fascist Eurabia, Boris Boris Boris Oy Oy Oy Brexit 31 Oct stuff u Eurabia.
4 years ago
Israel should be far more selective about the Islamic terror, “ticking bomb” intelligence that they share (what and when…) with their western European “allies”
let the Antisemitic Europeans “enjoy” their multicultural “diversity”, to the highest extent possible!
4 years ago
If Europe were concerned about “human rights”, warning labels should be placed on items from Islamic countries, not Israel. But obviously, contrary to what Europe claims, this has nothing to do with “human rights” or even “Palestinians”; it is simply European Jew hatred and the pathological obsession with Israel.
4 years ago
It will be “get on the train…” next!!!
4 years ago
what?
4 years ago
I can’t believe how toxic the Left has come to be. This is outrages.
Very slippery slope…
Didn’t the Left do something like this to South Africa back when it was clean & not dangerous? Now it is a poor dirty scary $#!+-#0!I£ thanks to the Left & their lies & hateful hearts.
4 years ago
I’d be much more worried about HALAL if I was in Europe.
4 years ago
MAJOR ENEMIES – GOVERNMENT OF EU/MERKEL & CO
4 years ago
Have the Nazis taken over the EU?
4 years ago
Reply to
Larry17
Well, the descendants of the Nazis…..the Germans….like Angela Merkel…..control the EU.
4 years ago
Reply to
RichardBlazer
…simple answer…they already have….but you need to throw in the Islamist Pope with that crowd.
4 years ago
Clearly Europe becoming NUTZI Germany again. A well-known preacher use to say the Germany would attack America. I had a hard time believing that. But now that you tell me this I can see everything is in place to bring the dreaded and last TURD world war.
Shake in your boots like Murky. It’s COMING…..
4 years ago
Just anti semitism at its worst and actually makes me more committed to buying Israel’s products. It also shows that UK needs to get out of EU asap. I do not want my taxes supporting that oligarchy
4 years ago
Europe is lost as the ignorant hating libturds have taken control. Time for the USA to pull out of there and let them drown in their own HATE!!!!!! No more taxpayer dollars for those parasites either!
4 years ago
Antisemitism is a political tactic used to neutralize a perceived enemy. When Jesus left Judaism and started the new religion of Christianity there was no separation of church and state – religion and government were intertwined. Jesus was a rebel and Christianity was a threat to the status quo. Today, Israel is a threat to the new world order the globalists and Islamists are attempting to impose on the free world. Israel is a Jewish state that demands her national sovereignty. Israel will never submit to globalism or Islamism. But wait – there is more. The United States, under the leadership of America-first President Donald Trump, is demanding her national sovereignty and so Israel and the USA are the existential enemies of the globalists and Islamists seeking their destruction. The “big Satan” and the “little Satan” refuse to submit. Oh my! The radical Leftists now in charge of the Democrat party have joined the anti-Israel boycott because they actually think that they can impose socialism on America if they win the 2020 election. The anti-Israel boycott is the perceived path to power of the Leftist/Islamist/Globalist axis seeking world dominion. Anyone foolish enough to buy what the Leftist/Globalist/Islamist axis is selling will soon find themselves in a post-free world if the axis is successful. There are no individual rights in socialism globalism, or Islamism. There is only a catastrophic return to feudalism where the tiny few at the top of the pyramid rule the enslaved masses at the bottom. Antisemitism and the Israeli boycott are they greatest bait-and-switch hoax of the 21st century. BUYER BEWARE!
4 years ago
Reply to
linda goudsmit
Wasn’t it GHW Bush who first said the words….”a new world order” in one of his speeches. There was his “dog whistle”…and so many of us were not paying attention or didn’t know the significance of it because of the indoctrination camps of education in America had already gone. far Left. …
4 years ago
This is shocking!….It’s like watching Hitler’s rise all over again. It’s almost the same process and horrors. Step….by….step!
I’ve come to resent the Dim Libtard Jews in America for not rising up and speaking out for their people across the globe, in our country….and especially the universities where antisemitism is growing unabashedly.
It’s like watching an impending train wreck in slow motion.
4 years ago
And it should read: These products are made with care, in clean facilities, by highly intelligent innovative and compassionate people who contribute to the well-being of mankind.
4 years ago
I suppose they will be putting similar labels on all other hotly contested lands across the globe. Right? I thought so. Disgusting. Shame on them!
4 years ago
The same “logic”can be applied to disputed territories in the Balkans, to Catalonia and Basque areas in spain, to Cyprus, to many other areas of he world.That It only applies to Israel clearly shows its an act of blatant anti semitism.
4 years ago
Europe has just one path — downwards.
4 years ago
Julian Castro is doing the same thing here by doxxing donors
4 years ago
It’s just so Muslims can discriminate against Jewish products
They will be making Jews sew on stars of David again telling them its so they can protect them better……
4 years ago
Even though “Religion” is quickly becoming a thing of the past and people who profess a belief in God are ridiculed as “nut jobs”, I still take comfort in my belief in the following promise, Zechariah 12: “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people
round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah against Jerusalem. And
in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all
the people of the earth be gathered together against it. In
that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment,
and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of
Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.”
4 years ago
The EU chicken is hitting the ground squeaking the Islamic Mantra from the Koran: “There is a Jew behind the tree/stone kill him” by killing their commerce! The world’s Jews need to wake up as do the US Catholics and listen to great, late, Zionist leader, Jabotinsky, the Leftists are not for them or the folks of any civilized religion! Jewish Americans and American Roman Catholics, really ethical, religious Americans in general betray themselves in supporting the Dim-ocRAT and leftist Parties supported by the globalist conspiracy of George Soros’ modern illuminati! I forgot to use all caps but get what I say, we on the right are right and the Left is wrong!
LAST, REGARDING THE SO CALLED PALESTINIANS, THEY DECLARED THEMSELVES VIA THEIR LEADERSHIP IN 1948, CITIZENS OF JORDAN WHICH EXPELLED THEM FOR TRYING TO OVERTHROW THEIR SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT! THEY ARE TRAITOROUS REFUGEES WITHOUT A COUNTRY DUE TO THEIR OWN MAKING & DOING! THEY DESERVE TO LOSE AS DOES THE ISLAMIC, GLOBALIST IDEOLOGY! ALL PATRIOTS OF THE ETHICAL, CIVILIZED BELIEF SYSTEMS NEED TO REMEMBER THE POEM, “HOW CAN MANKIND DIE BETTER THAN FACING FEARFUL ODDS FOR THE ASHES OF THEIR FATHERS & TEMPLES OF THEIR GODS” WHEN RELATING WITH THE ISLAMIC HORDES! IT ISN’T LIKE THE FOLLOWERS OF THIS IDEOLOGY DON’T MAKE IT EASY TO SEE WHAT THEY SEEK TO DO TO FIRST TO THE JEWS, THEN TO YOU AND ME!
4 years ago
EU = 4th reich
4 years ago
Are they going to put warning labels on products made in California and Texas? They are contested areas too (Ask any member of La Raza)!
4 years ago
No matter the pretext, the result is always the same.
4 years ago
On its face, this idea is not only ridiculous, it is open racism and bigotry. Product labels already state where it is made and sometimes even who distributes it. A warning label added just because it is made in Israel cannot be justified. The manufacturer cannot be required to put it on the product even if the cost is added to each unit. So, do the people who have come up with this hateful idea realize that they will have to cover the cost themselves as well as organize the means to put it on each product. And that cannot be done until after the products have arrived in Europe. I am sure it will be a “no returns” policy for the Israeli companies. As usual for the leftists, ideas without thought!
