Buycott – Psychos Putting Warnings On Israeli Grocery Products, So That’s A “Buy” Signal To Us
Jonathan Turley: “For those shopping for Passover, be prepared for these stickers which appeared on Israeli products at our local Safeway. Activists have added warnings that these products are ‘contaminated with apartheid & Zionism.'”
The sheer idiocy and depravity of anti-Israel leftists in America knows no bounds, as has been evidenced in tactics they’ve ramped up since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7th.
Just to name a few, they disrupted Easter services at New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a Holocaust remembrance discussion at a Berkeley City Council meeting, airport travel at several high-traffic airports here in the United States, and have infamously and disgracefully pulled down posters of missing Israelis taken hostage by Hamas.
They’ve also penned letters justifying Hamas terrorists raping Israeli women and even went so far as to taunt child cancer patients.
And as George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley recently observed in a Twitter/X thread, those tactics extend to slapping anti-Israel labels on select food products in grocery stores:
For those shopping for Passover, be prepared for these stickers which appeared on Israeli products at our local Safeway. Activists have added warnings that these products are "contaminated with apartheid & Zionism." pic.twitter.com/cuc8qBBTj7
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 4, 2024
…Safeway must have videotapes of those responsible. The police were called yesterday…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 4, 2024
Turley also advised that such tactics could be considered a crime:
…This can result in criminal and civil liability. On the federal side there is 18 U.S. Code § 1365 – Tampering with consumer products: “Whoever, with intent to cause serious injury to the business of any person, taints any consumer product or renders materially false or misleading the labeling of, or container for, a consumer product, if such consumer product affects interstate or foreign commerce, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
…This can result in criminal and civil liability. On the federal side there is 18 U.S. Code § 1365 – Tampering with consumer products:
“Whoever, with intent to cause serious injury to the business of any person, taints any consumer product or renders materially false or…— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 4, 2024
Back in December, Philadelphia area ACME locations were also hit with a similar anti-Israel campaign by local wacktivists:
Three Acme Markets in Lower Merion had their Sabra hummus products vandalized with stickers instructing shoppers to “boycott Israeli goods” Wednesday, according to a company spokesperson.
Sabra is owned by PepsiCo and the Strauss Group, a conglomerate that got its start as a business in Israel in 1939. The company has long been the subject of scrutiny among supporters of the Palestinian cause for its connections to the Golani Brigade, which is part of Israel’s military. The company is currently working with Israel’s national food bank Leket Israel to aid farmers in land bordering the Gaza Strip.
In Montgomery County, the contents of the Sabra products were not tampered with but bright yellow stickers were placed on the lids of containers saying the hummus was “contaminated with apartheid and Zionism.”
In response to Turley’s thread noting the stickers on Safeway grocery store items, many noted that the stickers actually made them want to buy the products:
Catholic here. Anything I see with this sticker is going in my cart.
— Haulin’ Oats (@Flyover_JCS) April 4, 2024
I am not Jewish, and I don’t keep kosher, but if I were to stumble across such a label at the grocery store, I’d buy the product just because it pisses off the assholes who wasted their time and money. https://t.co/H8FUExjDfT
— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 4, 2024
Next time I go grocery shopping I’ll be wearing my IDF sweatshirt and will load my cart up with any products I see with these stickers… because f**k the activists. https://t.co/iY7VhjFkB9
— A.C. Spollen (@ACSpollen) April 4, 2024
"Activists" in reality they are terroist Hamas supporters. This will only make me want to pick this products made in Israel up. This is BDS bullcrap. https://t.co/CKJcGKIaBj
— Joe (@JoeC1776) April 5, 2024
I would never eat this stuff myself, but if I saw these stickers in my local supermarket, I would buy every one of these items in stock and donate it to a local synagogue or food bank. https://t.co/bxcsSR7nkh
— Ironhead841 (@Mt2Aguy) April 4, 2024
Marking Jewish things with symbols? Where have we seen this before… https://t.co/zIoOhTqWpo
— Zach Jones (@TheZMaster23) April 5, 2024
It would appear that this tactic, too, is already backfiring on the anti-Israel activist mobs, bless their hearts. It’s no wonder they’ve gotten so desperate.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Frustrate the loons. Buy Israeli.
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Teh left has always relied on teh ignorance of useful idiots, from the Klan to the anarchists to weather underground to OWS to BLM.
Awww, come on proggies… unleash your inner Fascist… go ahead and make the stickers yellow stars!
The choice of color is unlikely to be a coincidence.
And historically the Jewish badge was not a star but a yellow circle.
Yes CONTAMINATED on a black background.
They’re not tampering with the food yet, but…
Are you referring to Nazi Germany? Because, the famous symbol that I and others are familiar with, is the star of David on a yellow background, with the word “Jude” written in the center. I’ve never seen a yellow circle used in this context.
No, I’m referring to the thousand years or so before Nazi Germany. The Nazis didn’t choose their design out of thin air. They built on the yellow circle badge that various countries had forced Jews to wear, and turned it into a star.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. I’m not familiar with this yellow circle symbol used as a device to identify Jews, prior to WWII.
My planned response to any pro Hamas demonstrations I encounter is to chant, “DARVO” clap clap “DARVO” clap clap.
Safeway should release the surveillance camera feed. Though it could get a bit tricky if the culprits are also unionized Safeway employees.
How tricky could it be. Employees deliberately damaging products and making them useable with an anti-Israeli, anti-semitic message stickers. Their sorry butts would be out the door and the “union” could go and stick it up their chocolate whizzway for all I would care.
“Unsaleable” . Make them unsaleable.
Why would a sticker explaining the origins of a product make it unsaleable? Unless you’re implying people are buying Israeli goods unknowingly, and now wouldn’t, because of the sticker.
Because it says CONTAMINATED in big letters…just like this. Most people would not purchase this on that basis alone.
That is obviously the intent of the stickers, with the word “contaminated” and the moronic ‘apartheid’ smear, and the equally idiotic “Zionist” as if the Jews don’t have the right to their homeland.
Clearly, only a true imbecile would make such a sticker, but the intent is obviously to dissuade other imbeciles from buying the product.
Oh for That Galilee Preacher’s Sake… you know better.
It’s about threat and conformity — not do you know you are buying Israeli, but showing that we know it, and what we say it means. Nope. Not permitted. Get with the boycott program, you Zionist scum. Or you might, you know, get “mostly peacefully” protested.
Myself, I think Imma “Look for, the yellow label” to toss into my cart next to the Goya. The right response to extortionate jackholes like those goes something like:
If you try to extort me into anything, that becomes the issue. I’ll probably do the opposite just to spite you. Either way, I’ll never forget you were willing to demand what I can, or cannot do, and force me to comply. Apparently, we’re not doing civilization any more — OK, bring it.
Bringing religious strife into a nation that was founded largely. to escape it.
I’d not be at all surprised if the unions are in back of this, or if not, the union will crawl over broken glass to protect their members.
If I see that label on things in my store, it will make me buy it just to spite the haters.
Time for discrimination lawsuits.
Buycotting is all very well, but when the product is the one depicted what will you do with it afterwards?
Yehuda is not the worst brand of jarred gefilte fish, but it’s far from the best, and the best is far from good. I would class Yehuda as “edible”, but not much more. There used to be one brand of jarred gefilte fish, Noam, that was actually good, but they seem to have been taken over by Meal Mart and the fish is now made to Meal Mart’s recipe, which is better than Yehuda but decidedly meh.
If you want gefilte fish that’s actually good, go to the kosher section of the frozen foods and get a frozen log of gefilte fish, and boil or bake it yourself. So much better than anything in a jar. I don’t think any of the brands commonly found in the USA are made in Israel, but all their owners contribute to Israeli causes so that may be enough for them to get these yellow stickers.
One thing I could never eat at my grandmother’s table was gefilte fish lol
I’m going to guess she didn’t make it herself, it was from a jar. That’s the mistake so many people make.
Oh no! She made it herself…she made everything except matzah herself. I didn’t like her beets either. It’s me.
My father, who was from Poland, made it from scratch. Bought the whitefish from a kosher butcher and gutted it himself and ground it up with spices.
It’s quite good. But only with horseradish.
Of course with horseradish. Gefilte fish and horseradish were made for each other. (Though a tomato sauce makes the horseradish unnecessary.) But it still has to be decent gefilte fish. Horseradish on inferior fish is like lipstick on a pig; neither of which belong on a kosher table.
Wash and make fertilizer
I don’t think Turley’s idea works:
The intent to harm is certainly there, but the labels don’t taint the product inside the packaging, and the label is not false or misleading. Whether zionism is a “contaminant” is inherently a matter of opinion (really stupid and bigoted opinion), not of fact, so it can’t be treated by the law as false or misleading.
But it’s still definitely illegal just because it’s vandalizing someone else’s property. That jar belongs to Safeway, and it didn’t give these people permission to attach a label that’s intended to make people not buy it. That should be enough for criminal charges, not to mention a civil lawsuit.
DIsagree.
“or renders materially false or misleading the labeling of”
This condition IMO is clearly met.
The word contaminated has an objective meaning. It is being misused here deliberately. Everything in fine print after that would be immaterial to that criminality if one were motivated to pursue.
Yeah this is a step or two beyond the Biden ‘I did that’ stickers that were the rage awhile back. Those were sarcastic but these new ‘contaminated’ stickers intend to include folks not to buy the product thus rendering harm to the store, the distributor and the manufacturer.
It’s misused, but it isn’t actually false or misleading. It says exactly what it means. Using that word betrays ugly bigotry, but it’s an opinion, not a false statement of fact. It’s intended to impress on shoppers’ subconscious that Jews are a contaminant, but that’s an opinion.
It doesn’t work not because you think it’s a bad idea but because for laws to be of any use what so ever it requires a will to enforce them.
Democrats have shown us very clearly they have no intention of enforcing any law that is inconvenient for them.
Therefore Democrats will do absolutely nothing against these “activists” because these “activists” are Democrats.
It could be elevated to felony status by leaning on hate crime laws no?
“The intent to harm is certainly there, but the labels don’t taint the product inside the packaging, and the label is not false or misleading.”
Wrong. That is why there are multiple comma’s. The labels are clearly meant to “cause serious injury the business of any person”
The commas don’t help.
Let’s expand that:
1. Whoever, with intent to cause serious injury to the business of any person, taints any consumer product. They didn’t do that.
2. Whoever, with intent to cause serious injury to the business of any person, renders materially false or misleading the labeling of a consumer product. They didn’t do that either. The product’s labeling is neither false nor misleading.
3. Whoever, with intent to cause serious injury to the business of any person renders materially false or misleading the container for a consumer product. They didn’t do that either. The product’s container is neither false nor misleading.
“Contaminated” is not false, because it specified what it’s “contaminated” with, and the only thing wrong with that statement is that zionism is not a contaminant. But that’s not a matter of fact but of opinion. If you were a nazi like them you would regard Jews as inherently dirty and unhygenic, and thus anything they handled as contaminated. And as a matter of law opinions can’t be false.
Which makes them common vandals, and both criminally and civilly liable as such.
Start boycotting Pale exports, here are details:
https://www.lloydsbanktrade.com/en/market-potential/palestine/trade-profile#:~:text=Palestine%20mainly%20exports%20articles%20of,also%20go%20through%20Israeli%20customs)%2C
And they pretend not to be Nazis.
“Marking Jewish things with symbols? Where have we seen this before…”
Exactly.
I doubt the anti-Israel sticker bandits are being careful to ONLY sticker products exported from Israel – just as the anti-Israel mobs assaulting Jewish students don’t ONLY assault Jewish students from Israel.
Claims this isn’t based in bigotry ring hollow.
Besides the innocent family businesses hurt by big “contaminated” stickers on their product that some will think ARE contaminated – if this tactic becomes more common I can almost guarantee some deranged “rape of women and be gearing of children is justified” wacko will proceed to tamper with more than just the labeling.
Beheading, not begearing.
By the way, Turley, who is not Jewish, is a better defender of Israel and a harsher critic of the Democrats than most prominent Jewish attorneys. I hear Alan Dershowitz all the time on Sid Rosenberg’s radio show in NYC and Sid (himself a former Democrat) cannot get Dershowitz to admit that he HAS to vote for Trump this year.
Has Turley said yet that he has to vote for Trump? If I recall correctly, like Dershowitz he voted for Clinton in 2016 and for Biden in 2020. I vaguely recall him saying that he might have to consider voting for Trump this year, but not that he had definitely decided to do so.
The morons putting Jewhating stickers on food that will be purchased ONLY by observant Jews certainly reaches new heights of stupid.
Not only purchased by observant Jews. I’m not Jewish and I’m going to buy something if I see that sticker although now that stores have heard about it I’m pretty sure they are going to have someone checking on a regular basis.
I’m sure the stickers would read better in the original German. Like, oh say, “Kauft nicht bei Juden!”
The “apartheid” slur makes me so angry, because of its brazen dishonesty and slander. Yet, it’s been an undeniably successful bit of propaganda from Muslim supremacists and Islamofascists, and, their non-Muslim, dhimmi and Dhimmi-crat allies, in tarring Israel and Israeli Jews with alleged racial animus, in a conflict that arises only and solely from Muslim supremacists’ and Islamofascists’ pursuit of genocidal, Islamic “holy war” intended to ethnically cleanse the middle east of its original, indigenous people.
And, the attempt to turn “Zionism” into a dirty word, is similarly evil and despicable — denying Jews’ right to live in their ancient homeland, unmolested by Muslim belligerence. How about these idiots focus on Islamofascism, as a real problem?
No more so than everything else they say. Their modus operandi is to accuse the Jews of everything that is true of themselves. They rape so they accuse the Jews of that; they are bloodthirsty so they accuse the Jews of that; they target babies for murder, so they accuse the Jews of that. Etc. et sickening cetera.
Hell yes. Just make sure the seal is in tack. And mention that you like like to buy Israeli because the quality is exceptional.
The Biden administration are some of those Psycho’s you put on your title….THIS is why the Joe Biden must be defeated, because we CAN’T let the NAZI’s take over…
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/04/06/wait-the-biden-administration-is-going-to-label-jewish-goods-now-sounds-pretty-hitlerian-n2637471
“Turley also advised that such tactics could be considered a crime”
You have got to be kidding me. You can burn down cities, loot stores, block highways and assault people without any repercussions.
How about biden encourage drilling our own oil and boycott oil imports from terrorist muzzie nations instead?
“terrorist muzzie nations”
Brilliant and articulate as always.
It would be interesting to know the identity of the phantom downvoter.
The FD&C Act (Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act) that created the FDA in 1938, as amended and as our FDA compliance attorney explained, created two major violations for food, drugs and cosmetics: adulteration and mislabeling. Something may be mislabeled without being adulterated, and something may be adulterated without being mislabeled—but most of the time both are present. Adulteration means a physically polluted product (e.g. ingredients and final product are putrid, incorrect amounts, filthy, etc.) and are therefore mislabeled as being something that they are not.
Slapping this kind of label is definitely mislabeling, and that is a serious offense according to the compliance attorney I work with. I showed him the labels and he said whoever is using them is risking a hell of a lot of jail time and hefty fines.
I hope FDA gets their asses in gear and starts prosecuting. Knowing this FJB administration—they won’t. Not at all.