Annexation may push UK Jews to refuse to buy settlement goods

Published: 10 July 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

COLIN SHINDLER: We won't say so in public, but many of us would support Lisa Nandy's recent call for a boycott of goods from settlements in the event of annexation

SUPPOSE YOU WERE GIVEN two tomatoes of equal size, quality, taste and price. Suppose you were told that one was from an Israeli kibbutz and the other from a West Bank settlement. Would you choose to eat one and not the other?

Some would undoubtedly be indifferent and choose either — a tomato is a tomato is a tomato. Others would discern. For some, it would be an unflagging endorsement of the right of Jews to settle in Judea and Samaria. For others, it would be a demonstration of opposition to the settlement drive on the West Bank. According to several scholarly analyses, those British Jews who oppose the settlements are the overwhelming majority.

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