Please leave the politics and do your job!

If the Co-op spent a bit more time on the day job they might manage to get more stuff on the shelves. There are still a lot of gaps in my loca.l

Of course not Allira!

NotSpaghetti

You could always buy British sugar from beets?

I don't think the Indian people are indentured any more

In fact, I know they're not.

I tend to agree with OP

elizabeths

I will boycott the Co-Op specifically because of their attitude. Israeli food producers employ Israeli Arabs and if this escalates it will hurt them and their families. They should stick to selling good products instead of jumping on the fashionable political bandwagon

Hard to compare 'genocide' with 'fashionable political bandwagon', really.

You could always buy British sugar from beets?

Minefield isn't it?
It certainly is!

As for sugar in your tea or coffee 😯

After slavery was abolished, how many knew that people from India were indentured to work in the sugar plantations in Trinidad and Tobago? I only found this out recently.

YANBU

I shall not be shopping in the Co-op again.

The OP is making a fair point, as is David, despite the waffling about him.

The Israeli Govt could care less what the Co-Op does, it's an irrelevant gesture.

I recall an article a few years ago that said that, historically, there are possibly 4 countries round the planet that have a squeaky clean, politically correct record that nobody else could object to (& no I don't remember which ones they are, but we - UK - certainly aren't one of them . . .all that naughty colonial empire building).

IF everyone really wants to walk this PC path, then don't buy anything from a Muslim country, or even talk to a Muslim (still treating women as 3rd-class citizens some 1900 years after being founded), and that includes checking where your petrol comes from, as if it comes from Arab oil-fields, then factor in all the human-rights abuses?

Nor would we, for example, ever buy anything German or Japanese, after their exploits in World Wars, and the same for China, after many decades of appalling human rights abuse. Let's throw in anything American, after their severe record of genocide against Native Americans, and the present policies of the idiot Chump, and that includes their film, TV and music industries, boycott the lot! Etc etc. Minefield isn't it?

There is a saying - ‘The only thing necessary for evil to strive is for good men to do nothing.’

Good on Co-op for their stand against genocide. There is a small Co-Op supermarket near us and I will shop there more often.

elizabeths

I will boycott the Co-Op specifically because of their attitude. Israeli food producers employ Israeli Arabs and if this escalates it will hurt them and their families. They should stick to selling good products instead of jumping on the fashionable political bandwagon

And you are perfectly within your rights to do so.

I will boycott the Co-Op specifically because of their attitude. Israeli food producers employ Israeli Arabs and if this escalates it will hurt them and their families. They should stick to selling good products instead of jumping on the fashionable political bandwagon

Have to hit them where it hurts, their pocketbooks. It can make a difference, ask the Target CEO here in the US. Ask the whisky distilleries in Kentucky. Until the profits fall, nothing will change.

Good for those members.

I predict Netanyahu will be so shocked he will cease hostilities forthwith.
🤔

Etoile2701

I love him.

Who?

Are you on the wrong thread Etoile?

Good on the CO OP. Remember, its owned by members and they will have consultanted with the members prior to this decision.
Someone has to take a stand against genocide.

Good for them.

I love him.

YABU

lafergar

Nan0

I see you condone Hamas

If that is directed to me, then we really are in the playground aren't we?

( Setting timer for ususal suspects to have a go at me)

Indeed (see other thread).

Allira

Claremont

Outcast52

Mt61

I can’t stick GL so I don’t buy walkers crisps, too expensive anyway.
When he was paid millions as a football pundit, he should have stuck to that.

This is such an inane, ridiculous point of view. Are you suggesting that all public figures, broadcasters, media personalities, sports pundits...in fact anyone who appears on any screens where you and I can see them - should be banned from expressing a personal opinion on social media / TV / radio, etc, etc for the whole tenure of their employment??? Try thinking about what you're saying.

So people around the world should have happily gone on buying German goods at the time of WW2 and the Holocaust?

Germany did continue trading with its Allies and neutral countries during WW2 and looted goods from its own citizens and countries it had invaded.

Obviously enemies would not trade with each other but I wasn't aware we were at war with any other country and I fervently hope we will not be at any time in the future.

You don't need to be at war with a country to make sure you don't support it. Call it 'virtue signalling' for all I care- but refusing to support a regime that attacks another wrongly, illegally and wants to expulse anyone daring to survive, is a matter of principle, morality and humanity. Quite 'simple' really.

YABU

It’s unlikely Marks and Spencer will do this!

In my view the leader of the Israeli government is guilty of war crimes as there is bombing of schools and hospitals. So the least that i can do is avoid goods from Israel.
The decision is based on views from co-op members

As for leaving politics to politicians - that does not seem to have stopped the atrocities has it?

I'll do without if it's made in China
Garlic for instance!!
Why?

We grow onions in this country, why not garlic? I buy Spanish.