Be Useful: Blog the Boycott

From the news concerning Ytong as well as Teldor Cables who were among some 10 to 20 companies that had signed contracts with the developers of the new West Bank Palestinian city, in which they agreed not to use any settlement products in connection with work for Rawabi:-

MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) said, “Those who help build Rawabi have to understand that they can not also build Tel Aviv.”  But MK Israel Hasson (Kadima) gave a number of passionate speeches against any legislative or judicial moves to penalize such companies, even though he himself does not support a boycott of settlement products.
“You can’t impose a diplomatic policy on the economic considerations of a company,” said Hasson.
The public has a right to campaign against that decision and even to boycott that company, but there is a difference between a public outcry and a legislative ban, Hasson said.

Separately, Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein said he plans to hold a meeting this week with settler leaders and members of different governmental offices to talk about the issue of Israeli companies boycotting settler goods.

“We can’t sit quietly when construction companies are working against our country for money. They have to know that who ever boycotts will end up being ostracized,” Edelstein said.

Meanwhile, the Samaria Citizens’ Committee offered NIS 500 to anyone who could identify any of the companies. It has started a list of such companies on its website, and has already posted the names of Teldor Cables and Ytong.

At the end of December, the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel asked the attorney- general and the Finance Ministry to amend the law regulating governmental tenders, so that companies boycotting settlement products would be banned from bidding for government projects.

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