CART I (COOP) RITA: THE CAMPAIGN AND THE COOP MASKED
anti-Israel by the Courier Online
Coop initiative anti-Israel (returned)
When the label is hidden beneath the boycott
Behind the 'traceability' a campaign against a state
Pierluigi Battista
he plays in the Italian and minimizes the words, takes the form of a boycott un'aggrovigliata issue of "traceability" and a campaign to ' political and economic ostracism of a State becomes a trivial problem of etiquette, an altercation at a distance on products with a designation of origin. But the war
Coop (and Nordiconad) against Israeli products dell'Agrexco proved within a few hours for what it was: a political case, a dispute that the boycott has added an unprecedented threat of counter-boycott . Other than "traceability." Now, signed the agreement (or truce), fruit and vegetables on the back benches of the Coop. The Coop has found time in which the Internet, blogs, social networks, an insurmountable obstacle to its strategy of minimization. They said it was "boycott", which was only a matter of accuracy and fairness of the market, consumers had to know that behind the "Made in Israel" were also collected and processed products from the agribusiness giant in Agrexco Occupied Territories, as is known, are not yet a Palestinian state, but certainly not the State of Israel. But the Agrexco responded that those products accounted for only 0.4 percent of the total and if there was to adapt the label to the fees set by EU rules, then they would not reverse any impediment. And then, there was no need for the Coop to draw up a listing so demanding nothing less than the release of its products from shelves Israelis, some of unknown origin? They could not apply directly all'Agrexco, then as has been done, but only after the improvident, and catastrophic announcement of the boycott? And then, it was not really sure, just 'boycott'?
managers of Coop say no, that has never been a boycott. But then you discover that the site of the NGO "Stop Agrexco" There was pleased in recent days to "the important result of the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' (all in capital letters) "against Israeli apartheid." Only a "question of etiquette" or that hint to the 'Israeli apartheid' policy does not declare an intention perhaps a bit 'less, so to speak,' technical? "Boycott," to appear here, repeatedly and obsessively by its promoters, the forbidden word. As it appears on the same site, the sequence of actions show that in a couple of months have strongly impressed the Coop suddenly to take the decision now returned: the events of Largo Agosta Coop supermarkets and Via Laurentina in Rome demonstrations outside the Coop of Pisa, Italy Casalecchio Coop, Coop front of Pesaro and Jesi by organizing "Palestine Solidarity Campaign gears, and so on. Very often appeared in leaflets which they deplored "the Israeli government has repeatedly guilty of war crimes against humanity." Always appeared the forbidden word, "boycott": that the Coop has always denied, that just take a look at some 'of these movies and ubiquitous ubiquity YouTube to discover the brand, "Boycott!" With the militants wearing the same shirt extolling the 'Free Palestine', the same scenes of the shelves with products Israelis targeted the same language very aggressive.
The strategy of minimization, the eradication of the word "boycott" from the lexicon of the Coop, could not keep time to the reactions which have been especially on blogs their channel of information: in a 'cross', is on the right than on the left. A Left that, in heartfelt open letter signed among others by Furio Colombo, Emanuele Fiano and Gianni Vernetti, was questioned about the reasons which led amazed organization "progressive" as the Coop to go along with the anti-Israeli underestimating the emotional impact, and the awakening of horrible memories, the dell'estromissione products "Jewish" from the shelves of a store. A right that has seen Fiamma Nirenstein among the principal architects of the counter-boycott and by Foreign Minister Frattini expressed with an adjective, "racist", the taste is unmistakable. On Facebook groups were created as' Coop boycott the products of Israel? We boycott the Coop "and" I do not buy either the Coop or the Conad "who have collected miles accessions. It appeared even the tragic picture of the smiling Italian in 1938 who wantonly performs the sign "This store is Aryan" in the window of his shop. There have written open letters to Luciana Littizzetto, spokesperson of the Coop. The common reaction Coop did not work, beginning with the reassuring page newspaper advertisement bought by the Coop brand to drive away the ghost of "boycott." Today acronym, obtorto neck, an agreement with Agrexco. And the anti-boycott camp can be found, bipartisan, one last protest in front of a supermarket Coop. A dramatic own goal, at best. An open wound with a portion of the public who do not recognize the incessant anti-Israeli campaign
Pierluigi Battista
