BOYCOTTING IS A POPULAR SPORT. The Boycott, Divest, (and) Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel has world-wide support , primarily from people who have never even been to Israel, let along lived there.
What has scotch – probably the most preferred alcoholic drink among Jews – go to do with boycotts, and why should Jews boycott the whisky?
Because apparently anti-Semitism is alive and well in Scotland where ignorant bigots are loose on the streets waving the flag of a county that never existed in the entire history of the world.
Truth in blogging: I prefer Irish and Bourbon whiskeys and arak to scotch, a flavor that falls somewhat below rum and vodka on my list of high proof potables.
Scotland is the home of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) 1
The party’s web site, http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/, is one canard after another. A sample: Israeli Army child prisoner abuse is policy and driven from the top.
The group’s misguided and ignorant rants might be acceptable under “free speech” legislation, but it has turned violent.
According to London’s Jewish Chronicle 2, An activist connected to the group was found guilty of racially abusing Nisan Ayalon, who operates stalls selling Israeli cosmetics. The report continued: The campaign group Jewish Human Rights Watch (JHRW) has accused the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign of "targeting" a Jewish businessman for selling Israeli goods.
Ally Coutts was found guilty of racially abusing Nisan Ayalon, who operates stalls selling Israeli cosmetics, earlier this month.
Coutts, 57, is a prominent member of the SPSC.
Mr Ayalon, a Jewish businessman based in Aberdeen, owns Jericho SkinCare, which sells products containing minerals extracted from the Dead Sea.
He claims to have already been “hounded out” of Glasgow.
The Jewish Chronicle notes that on this occasion and two others, SPSC members were NOT charged with committing a racially motivated crime. (If pro-”Palestinians” attack Jews, how can the crime NOT “racially motivated”? Perhaps the Scottish magistrates are imbibing a little bit too much of the national drink.)
The SPSC brags, on its site, that it has prevented Scots from seeing entertainment from Israel simply because the SPSC’s bigotry is not limited to its own membership; it succeeds in imposing its ignorance on people who have open minds.3
REAL bigots live in South Africa where the ANC government rejected out of hand an Israeli offer to help mitigate the suffering in Cape Town where residents soon will die of dehydration. The Scots are moving in the same “cut off their nose to spite themselves” direction.
NOW THERE’S AN ALTERNATIVE TO SCOTS' “SCOTCH"
There is now a growing number of distilleries4 in Israel, making a variety of potables, include pseudo-Bourbon, pseudo-scotch, rum, gin, and of course maheyah (arak) from various plants.
Why “pseudo”? The only alcoholic beverage that may be called “Bourbon” must be made in the U.S.; likewise, scotch whisky only be distilled in Scotland, Irish in Ireland. Rum, gin, vodka, arak and most other alcoholic beverages may be made anywhere and every where the raw materials are available.
Presumably, if Israeli distillers age their products in casks formerly used to contain kosher wines, makpedim will be dancing in the streets (even before imbibing).
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/y93zkuep
2. http://tinyurl.com/y74p9byu
3. http://tinyurl.com/yazrqt9x
4. http://tinyurl.com/ybhs8awd
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
