The labels will be these big, yellow Stars of David. You know, so they'll be easily and quickly noticed by consumers.
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.
Yup. It'll be a sub-zero St. Louis day in August before I ever support pulling that hell-continent's irons out of the fire again.
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.
Yup. It'll be a sub-zero St. Louis day in August before I ever support pulling that hell-continent's irons out of the fire again.
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Still enjoying my Sodastream. Mmmmm. Jihadi tears...delicious.
I'm going to have to get me one of those.
One would think Europeans would be alert to this particular form of bigotry.
And this is the kind of thing that happens when policy is made by unaccountable masters like courts and unelected bureaucrats.
It just worries me that this always seems to be their default position. Like that little dust-up in the 40's never happened.
Chris, cultural habits die hard. When Europeans got transplanted to North America, maybe because once here they had to accept lots of different people from the very beginning, the Jew-hating got diluted. Thanks be to God for that. Even with the horrors of what happened in Europe, I think people were able to focus on the other horrors, the ones that affected them and their families more directly, and they didn't internalize and correct this particular wrong. Plus, they are now inundated with immigrants from Muslim societies, in which Jew-hating is endemic and positively taught in the foundations of their religion. The old Europeans are afraid of these people, and since they have already a cultural prejudice against Jews, they don't act against it as they should.
That's what scares me, Katherine.
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