Buy Israeli food

Last week I wrote about the South Bay Mobilization's call to pressure Trader Joe's to get rid of Israeli goods. I wasn't too pleased - here in Chinatown we've had all kinds of crap from the no-fur and PETA crowd and other big-nosed busybodies all frazzled at something, and usually the people who end up suffering from politically motivated anti-merchant actions are not the self-satisfied middle-class white people. Judgemental prigs.

By the way - would you dumb tourists and rednecks mind awfully NOT photographing the fish stores and food markets? We aren't here for your amusement, we actually live here.
Thank you SO much, and have a NICE trip back to Podunck. Bye now.


In any case, it turns out that the nineteenth and twentieth of June have become "buy Israeli Products Day".


BUY ISRAELI PRODUCTS DAY
June 19 & 20, 2009.


Here are links to some posts about the know-it-alls behind the Trader Joe's divestment campaign.
[That being the South Bay Mobilization, Kate Bender Rafael, and Yasmeen Qureishi, among others - Kate Bender Raphael was supposedly involved in that little incident last year in which Israeli food products were sabotaged - which would be a crime if substantiated - and is known for her insistence that breaking glass and trashing offices counts as "non-violent protest". She's an uber-creep.]


SOLOMONIA
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/06/when-in-doubt-trash-a-supermarket/index.shtml

QUOTE: Bold and courageous activists in Pittsburg then turned ugly on the company they had previously tried to cajole (sound familiar?) and walked into a Trader Joe's shop where they proceeded to pull Israeli goods and/or shove their usual misinformation into the hands of customers before being tossed out of the store for trespassing. Undeterred, the BDS community throughout the land called for a national day of de-shelving Israeli products on June 20 (this coming Saturday). One hopes that before they get started they realize the two ways of performing such de-shelving (other than buying all the couscous for themselves) would involve (1) shoplifting, a locally prosecutable criminal offense or (2) defacing said Israeli products to make them unsellable, which turns out to be a prosecutable federal offense under the US Product Packaging Protection Act of 2002.
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Take note of that, you trolls - defacing products in the stores is a FEDERAL OFFENSE! And please remember that the next time you go into Chinatown. Being emasculated by an angry shopkeeper (even, perhaps especially, you, ms. Kate Bender Raphael) might be the very least of your problems.


ELDER OF ZION
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/06/moonbats-going-after-trader-joes.html

QUOTE: The obvious thing to do is to make sure you buy Israeli products from Trader Joe's on the 19th and 20th and let the store managers know that you appreciate the fact that they make such products available.
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The proper way to "de-shelve" is to buy as much as possible. That more than anything else says appreciation. Smack a pro-Palestinian noodnik on the way out.


DIVEST THIS!
http://www.divestthis.com/

QUOTE: Divestment debates are ongoing matters at many "Mainline" Protestant churches. I’ve talked before about how anti-Israel divestment resolutions, begun by local churches, find their way to national forums (notably the Presbyterians and Methodists who meet every few years within quasi-democratic frameworks to vote on resolutions submitted from "the field"). While these resolutions get routinely voted down at a national level by whopping majorities, that seems to just give local activists the go-ahead to try to re-craft their rejected calls for resubmission two or four years hence.
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Wanna bet that the "local activists" belong simultaneously to several different denominations? It's probably just the same five bigots in each region, who have nothing better to do, and believe themselves divinely chosen to judge each and every one of their neighbors. Which, in its own way, is very Protestant, very Christian - missionaryism uncleverly disguised.


BLUE-TRUTH
http://www.bluetruth.net/2009/06/fight-bds-movement-shop-at-trader-joes.html

QUOTE: The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement is an tactic from the anti-apartheid effort now adopted by the anti-Israel groups in the US and Europe. Of course, it completely ignores the actual fact, which is that Arabs in the State of Israel have citizenship and full and equal political and civil rights.
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See, Israel is more diverse, by a VERY WIDE MARGIN, than any of the Arab countries. And the Arabs don't appear to like anybody but themselves - except, of course, for the Philippinas and other female guest-workers whom they rape at the drop of a hat in the Gulf States, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia - and would you care to guess about the perpetrators of a very large number of violent sex crimes in Europe?
Here in San Francisco, the Arabs count as the worst racists and bigots, especially as far as the Chinese are concerned. You will NEVER hear an Arab say anything good about Chinese-Americans. They discriminate, they sneer at our accents, and they cheat. And many of them are the worst tenants in the world - they make twenty-something dummies from the Midwest look good; that .... takes some doing.
They are rude, crude, and venal.
Plus Arab-American teenagers are sexist pigs. Absolute unmitigated swine.

Yes, I know that I am generalizing - bite me!


GRIZZLY GROUNDSWELL
http://grizzlygroundswell.theodoremedia.com/archives/7069

QUOTE: Trader Joe’s, a well-known market for imported foods and wines, is now under pressure to stop selling products made in Israel (like Israeli couscous, for example). This effort is being launched by South Bay Mobilization, a leftist, activist anti-Israel bunch in San Jose, California. In addition to its letter to Trader Joe’s asking them not to sell Israeli products, this bunch is asking its members to actually go into local Trader Joe’s stores on June 20, which if you did not know, is "World Refugee Day" and "Day to de-shelve Israeli products". It appears they will do what French activists have been doing, filling their shopping carts with Israeli products (with great fanfare) then leaving them in the aisle. Neat, huh? Basically, they conduct themselves like vandals.
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Conducting themselves like vandals? How VERY white of them. Proof positive that white folk can go "native" (how delicious!!!!), that Arabs can blend-in (hah!), and that Arab culture is warm and open to all (please reread previous comments about raping Philippinas and being sexist pigs).
Between hypocrite middle-class dunces and nasty Arab liquor-store owners and taxi drivers, San Francisco is going to hell in a handbasket.
Berkeley, of course, is already part of the BORG.
And some of those sanctimonious twats in the South Bay really need to be smacked with a rubber hose.

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FRIDAY JUNE 19 ADDITION:

Over at DIVEST THIS! there are two recipes for Israeli Couscous.

Israeli Couscous with Seasonal Vegetables (From The Foods of Israel Today, by Joan Nathan)

Couscous with Dried Fruits and Nuts (A traditional Moroccan Hanukkah dessert, from The World of Jewish Cooking, by Gil Marks)

http://www.divestthis.com/2009/06/what-to-do-with-all-that-couscous.html

The siteowner there has promised to post more recipes as they come in. So please go over there often for updates and further information on Israeli Couscous, and also contribute your own recipes!

Seeing as Israeli Couscous is not a traditional Cantonese ingredient (yes, we do eat EVERYTHING - we just haven't gotten to Israeli Couscous yet), nor even at all common in TaiFao (SF Chinatown), I am anxious to see what you all come up with.

I'm thinking Eight Treasures Rice Pudding...... I'm going to experiment.