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Here’s a video taken of the Nov. 29 BUYcott event supporting MEC in Vancouver

Our successful BUYcott MEC campaign was the subject of several blogs and an article in the Canadian Jewish News:

• Breaking a Boycott – a post by popular Vancouver blogger Jonathon Narvey
• England, France, Underpants! – a post from the UK blog Divest This!
• Anti-Israel protest fizzles as long johns sales soar – by Lauren Kramer, Canadian Jewish News

Here’s a very supportive editorial published in the Nov. 28 Calgary Herald:

Ignore boycott, it’s time to BUYcott Israel

With the Aryan Guard in Calgary disbanding, it’s good riddance to one bunch of anti-Semites. Now, if only another bunch would disperse, as well. The misguided members of this particular group plan to picket at Mountain Equipment Co-op stores today to protest the retailer’s selling of Israeli-made products. MEC management should ignore them and continue selling made-in-Israel goods. Anyone who wants to boycott merchandise made in a democracy because of the despicable belief that this democracy has no right to defend itself against attacks by terrorists determined to wipe it out should be dismissed with the contempt merited.

Israel is the only country in the world that suffers condemnation for fighting back when attacked–and that bespeaks loudly of anti-Semitism, for no other reason is discernible.

Sunday, a counter-protest is taking place–it’s called BUYcott Israel, and its purpose is to urge people to go to MEC and specifically purchase Israeli products there, to show their support for Israel and for MEC’s sensible refusal to cave in to the wrong-headed protesters. The pressure must be kept up against those who would boycott Israel.