We Need You to Help With BIG (Buy Israeli Goods) Day: March 30

StandWithUs has been advised that March 30th has been designated as a Global BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Day of action by the boycott movement against Israel. We have received a memorandum that says the following: "The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on its supporters to unite in different capacities and struggles to join the Global BDS Day of Action on Land Day, 30 March 2011." Boycotters have been energetically lobbying stores acrossNorth America to drop Israeli products, from local co-ops to Costco and Trader Joe's. We are therefore working closely with the pro-Israel, pro-peace community to use March 30 as our next “BIG (Buy Israeli Goods) Day” and we need your support and help to promote it. Let us show anyone that calls for boycotts of even one or two stores, that it will always be met with a much larger counter-movement to buy Israeli goods. StandWithUs and the America-Israel Chambers of Commerce calls on schools, college campuses, synagogues, community organizations, and individuals to designate Wednesday, March 30, as the day to actively Buy Israeli Goods. Go to your local stores and request Israeli products. Whenever a boycott is called, respond by purchasing the very Israeli goods that are being targeted and let store managers know they should keep them well-stocked on the shelves. While you go shopping for Purim and Passover, choose presents from the wonderful array of Israeli-made items, from fine Israeli wines to the high quality Ahava beauty products, Israeli jewelry, shoes and clothing lines, and of course, food.  Select Sabra or Tribe hummus, great Israeli wines and Osem cookies to grace your holiday party. We must defeat the boycotters who advocate destructive instead of constructive measures, who undermine hopes for peaceful co-existence, and whose only goal is to defame, cripple and damage Israel. We can defeat them if we join together.  On March 30th, go shopping for Israel no matter where you live. Buy for Israel. Buy for peace. Be a big part of this BIG (Buy Israeli Goods) Day. Shop with friends, and please take pictures and videos of yourself purchasing Israeli products, and send them to us. Make entries for youtube, make them positive, fun, and/or funny.  Email your photos or links to your videos and pictures tobig@standwithus.com. AND: Visit this website: www.BuyIsraelGoods.org  ---  The website includes a locator so that you can find stores in your area that carry Israeli products.  The BIG campaign is a partnership between StandWithUs and the America-Israel Chambers of Commerce and like-minded organizations.

Filed under Israel, Boycott, StandWithUs, Unites States, Divestment on Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Author: Admin.