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Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe (www.lemonde.fr)

submitted 5 days ago by qaz to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Consumer boycotts are not sufficient by themselves. However they do serve to reduce the economic strength of the hostile nation.

They also signal to the politicians that political actions is backed and demanded by the population.

The US wants to forbid talking about boycotts in some states. the German parliament passed a resolution to condemn the BDS movement. When the ICJ concluded in its advisory opinion regarding the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land that there most be no economic complicity in the occupation, the German chancellor Scholz condemned the ICJs legal conclusion as "disgusting".

They would not attack consumer boycotts in such ways, if they would not fear them.