[SOURCE: http://muqata.blogspot.com/2011/05/official-scotch-whisky-counter-boycott.html.]
Please help pass this on to Kiddush Clubs everywhere!
This is the official pro-Israel, counter-boycott page against Scotch Whisky, distilled in the anti-Israel region of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. (letter to the distillers, appears below)
My good friend and fellow blogger, Aussie Dave from Israellycool has been following this story since it's inception.
- Scottish Council Launches Ban On Israeli Books
- Follow Up On The Dumbies of Dunbartonshire Council
- Jim McElhill of West Dunbartonshire Council Leaving Nasty Comments
The story also appeared on my blog, and in other news sources as well.
- FURY AS COUNCIL LAUNCHES BOYCOTT ON ISRAELI BOOKS
- Scottish areas ban Israeli products
I believe its best to contact the whisky distillers directly, since the West Dunbartonshire Council of Wise Men couldn't care less what a pro-Israel, pro-liberty, person might think...but they might listen to voices of their constituents; specifically the Scotch whisky distilleries in their council's region.
You can contact them directly at:
Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd. info@morrisonbowmore.co.uk
Distillers of: Auchintoshan, Bowmore, Glen Garioch, McClelland’s
Loch Lomond Distillery Co. Ltd mail@lochlomonddistillery.com
Distillers of Loch Lomond, Scots Earl, Distillery Select, Glen Scotia, Littlemill, Croftengea, Craigslodge, Inchmurrin, Glen Douglas, Inchfad
Chivas Brothers media.relations@pernod-ricard.com
Distillers of Ballantine’s, Chivas, Royal Salute, Clan Campbell, Something Special, Passport, 100 Pipers, Imperial, Long John Aberlour, The Glenlivet, Glendronach, Strathisla, Longmorn, Scapa, Tormore, Jameson, Paddy, Powers, Walker Special Old, Wisers
This is the most current and accurate list I could procure based on the addresses of distiller's in the West Dunbartonshire Council region. Please contact me if I have omitted any whisky from this region, and I will gladly update the list.
I urge you to write to these fine distillers of whisky, and express your outrage and support of the counter-boycott. Pass this list on to your friends and neighbors. It is simply immoral for the West Dunbartonshire Council to boycott Israel.
Following is the letter I sent them today...feel free to use it in expressing your sentiments to these distillers.
Regards from Israel,
Jameel Rashid
The Muqata Blog
www.muqata.com
Letter to the Fine Whisky Distillers of West Dunbartonshire
Tuesday, 31rst May, 2011
To The Fine Whisky Distillers of West Dunbartonshire;
Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd.
Auchentoshan Distillery, Dalmuir, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire G81 4SJ
Distillers of Auchintoshan, Bowmore, Glen Garioch, McClelland’s
Loch Lomond Distillery Co. Ltd
Lomond Industrial Estate, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire G83 0TL
Distillers of Loch Lomond, Scots Earl, Distillery Select, Glen Scotia,
Littlemill, Croftengea, Craigslodge, Inchmurrin, Glen Douglas, Inchfad
Chivas Brothers
Kilmalid, Stirling Road, Dumbarton, Lanarkshire, G82 2SS
Distillers of Ballantine’s, Chivas, Royal Salute, Clan Campbell,
Something Special, Passport, 100 Pipers, Imperial, Long John
Aberlour, The Glenlivet, Glendronach, Strathisla, Longmorn, Scapa
Tormore, Jameson, Paddy, Powers
Walker Special Old, Wisers
Gentlemen,
I would like to preface this letter, in that I have enjoyed your fine whisky products for many years, and believe they are truly world-class. Unfortunately, due to the actions of your esteemed West Dunbartonshire council members, I will not be able to enjoy your whisky in the foreseeable future.
It has come to my attention that the West Dunbartonshire Council claims to have voted unanimously to boycott Israeli products.
The West Dunbartonshire Council clearly states their point on their website, updated on the 30th of May, 2011.
http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/news/corporate-statement-on-the-boycott-of-israeli-goods/
The actual boycott resolution is as follows:
‘This Council deplores the loss of life in Palestine which now numbers well over 1,000. This Council also recognises the disproportionate force used by the IDF in Palestine and agrees to boycott all Israeli goods as a consequence. Officers should immediately cease the purchase of any goods we currently source, which were made or grown in Israel. Officers should also ensure we procure no new goods or produce from Israel until this boycott is formally lifted by WDC.’
I find it disturbing that the esteemed council found no reason to mention the reason for the IDF’s operation in Gaza. There was no mention of the intentional targeting of civilian infants, children, women and men by Gaza’s Hamas government, the thousands of rockets they launched at Israel’s civilian population, and the restraint that Israel employed over the previous years when attacked on a daily basis.
The IDF does not target civilians. The vast majority of Palestinians that Israel killed have been terrorists. Go check the facts. I have. Palestinians terrorists routinely use hospitals, mosques, and schools to launch their rocket attacks on Israel. Try defending your population from terrorists and see if you can guarantee zero collateral damage. Does your council not condemn the barbarism of the Arab terrorist because in the back of their minds they are concerned terrorists might hunt them down and terrorize THEIR families?
Why was there an IDF operation in Gaza in the first place? To oppress poor Palestinian Arabs? How would you deal with Gazas’ Arabs’ targeting Scotland’s babies, other children, and other civilians? Have you not seen the pictures of atrocities the Arabs have visited on innocent children, or does your council not care? We are not talking about isolated attacks on Israel, but about thousands of rockets they have launched at Israel’s civilian population.
The restraint of Israel under attack is astounding. Colonel Richard Kemp, previous Commander of British Armed Forces in Afghanistan said when presenting his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in October 2009: “During its operation in Gaza, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” (source)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to the US Congress last week: "Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel's Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights. I want you to stop for a second and think about that. Of those 300 million Arabs, less than one half of 1% are truly free, and they're all citizens of Israel! This startling fact reveals a basic truth: Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East; Israel is what is right about the Middle East!" (source)
Lastly, the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas stated this past Saturday that the future state of Palestine will be “free of Jews.” (source)
The State of Israel offers equal freedom for all its citizens, Jew, Arab, and Christian alike, including full parliamentary and judiciary representation. The State of Israel is the unchallenged leader of democracy in the Middle East, and the West Dunbartonshire Council boycott unfortunately attempts to undermine the very success of Israel as a democracy.
Therefore, it saddens me to have to inform you that the global counter-boycott of Scottish whisky products, distilled in the West Durbanshire Council region, is beginning. I don’t know anyone who bears malice toward these fine distilleries. When, however, your local council representatives boycott my country, under the most unethical and immoral of pretext, you cannot expect your market to sit idly and pretend your are not perverting justice.
• The counter-boycott is on the purchase of Scottish Whisky, distilled in the West Durbanshire council region.
• The counter-boycott is not retroactive and applies only to purchases made from June 2011 onwards.
• The counter-boycott will not prevented global residents from purchasing whisky products, distilled outside of West Dunbartonshire.
• Attempts to depict this counter-boycott as racist are also entirely inaccurate. The counter-boycott is instigated in response to conduct and boycott initiated by the West Durbanshire Council and applies to no specific ethnic or religious group. This is in direct opposition to the West Durbanshire Council which refuses to condemn the actions of Palestinian terrorists targeting Israeli civilians and the anti-Semitic, racist declarations of the Palestinian Authority, which calls for a “Jew-free” apartheid, State of Palestine.
The counter-boycott is publicizing the list of West Durbanshire distilled whisky by internet and distributing press releases to news agencies and others around the globe.
Sincerely,
Jameel Rashid
The Muqata Blog
www.muqata.com
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Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael
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AFTER WORD
I myself intend to boycott pretty much everything Scottish henceforward.
And I dare anyone to accuse me of racism - there are kilted heathen in my family background, and one of the things my mother happily told me about when I was young, was how her ancestors had slaughtered some other bunch of hairy Scots gits back in the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Besides, I know how haggis is made - that foul product qualifies as a crime against humanity on par with buggery Bobby Burns horrid doggerel.
No surprise that they are often paired.
Thank heavens the best marmalade comes from England.
------ATBOTH
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How to be consistent when boycotting Israel: West Dunbartonshire Council's Boycott of Israel See list at end of this mail Following the decision of the West Dunbartonshire Council to boycott all goods produced in Israel, council workers now need to perform the following actions:-
1. Computers & Technology
• Remove all Intel Pentium and Celeron computer processor chips from council personal computers (desktops, laptops and notebooks) as these were either developed or manufactured in Israel. Note that the revolutionary new Ivy Bridge processor will be manufactured in Israel.
• Any computers that still work need to have their anti-virus software and personal firewalls removed as this technology originated in Israel. Any computers running the Windows XT operating system must be turned off immediately as this was developed in Israel. All current Microsoft operating systems are not to be used as Microsoft is heavily reliant on its Israel R&D centre.
• The departmental firewall will also need to be switched off. Employees should no longer open external emails as most of these will be infected with viruses
• No outgoing emails can be sent. The algorithm (code) that's used today for sending e-mails, was made by an Israeli who worked at the Ben-Gurion University in Be'er-Sheva in 1980
• Before accepting any printed material, check that the supplier has not used the Israeli device that might have saved up to 50% of the ink used.
• At home, do not use Facebook as many in-built and add-on applications are Israeli-developed.
• Do not watch videos on the Internet as the platform used to upload them may be from AOL and hence from an Israeli company.
• Do not use Video On Demand (VOD) to watch movies as you may inadvertently see an advert displayed using Israeli software
• Do not purchase any games devices as these are likely to use Israeli technology.
• Do not read books using an e-book as this may contain Israeli technology.
• Do not use data storage as it may have been developed at Israel's storage technology R&D centre
• Do not buy an electric car as it is likely to be powered with an Israeli battery or use Israeli developed charging mats
2. Phones & Voicemail
• Discard all mobile phones, as this technology was developed in Israel, where the first mobile phones were manufactured. Mobile chip technology from a single Israeli company has now been installed in over 100 million devices.
• Only department heads may retain mobile phones for emergency situations. However the use of SMS (Texting) is expressly forbidden as this facility was developed in Israel.
• No 4G devices can be used as the chipset is Israeli.
• Turn off your voice-mail service and delete any recorded messages. Israeli companies invented the voice-mail system.
• If your call is not answered by someone you know, hang up. Israeli call-centres and call-centre technology is in widespread operation in the UK.
• Do not use the Internet to search for answers to your questions as this may involve use of an Israeli-developed search engine. Better to remain unenlightened.
3. Food and Drink
• Council restaurants and canteens must dispose of cherry tomatoes, which were developed in Israel. Employees must ensure that no cherry tomatoes are included in sandwiches brought into office premises.
• The ban also applies to honey and any products derived from honey. Israel has developed solutions to the world-wide problem of bee-colony collapse, so that any products derived from bees might only be available now due to an Israeli invention.
• Avoid drinking any of the world-recognised award-winning Israeli wines
• No delicious home-made drinks from Israeli-manufactured household drinks machines
• Avoid any fruit from South Africa or Peru as produce from these countries is being marketed with Israeli brand names
• No agricultural products from the following areas must be consumed as they use water irrigation and agricultural technology provided directly from Israel.
Most of Africa
China
India
Indonesia (a Muslim country)
Nepal
Many others - please check.
Much fruit and vegetables (including organic) imported into the UK has been enhanced using Israeli technology. This saves millions of people from starving around the world but is not a good reason for you to eat it. For safety, only eat fruit and vegetables that you have grown yourself using seeds that have been in your family for generations.
4. Dealing With People
When interviewing prospective employees or holding meetings with members of the public or other organisations you must check that they have no association with the following countries and areas that have accepted aid from Israel.. The council must avoid acknowledging Israel's contribution to world relief. Also, any associated products from these areas may also have been contaminated by Israeli technology. These locations include:
• The Congo (oil tanker fire disaster July 2010)
• Angola (mines cleared by Israeli technology - July 2010)
• Mississippi (bioremediation technique used to clean up after oil spills developed in Israel)
• China (a major purchaser of Israeli technology, and recipient of medical aid and training)
• South Africa (Israelis trained their doctors to perform circumcisions to prevent the spread of AIDS - July 2010)
• Cameroon (opthalmologists from Haifa restored vision to patients and trained local medical teams in these procedures - Aug 2010)
• Haiti (Israel set-up the largest field hospital to treat victims of the earthquake and hurricane and provided vital assistance for over a year)
• Romania (Israeli doctors treated babies following fire at a neonatal unit - Sep 2010)
• Ghana (receiving technological aid from Israel since 2006; Israel is now providing neonatal units to save many of the 4,800 babies that die each year)
• Philippines (signed major trade agreement with Israel in Nov 2010)
• The Maldives (although non-Islamic worship is banned here, Israeli eye-doctors performed free operations for citizens in Dec 2010)
• Kenya (Israel's Agency for International Development built a state-of-the-art Emergency Room in a hospital serving 6 million Kenyans in Jan 2011)
• Uganda (Israeli solar-powered refrigerators were provided to store vaccines used to eliminate an outbreak of Polio from the country in Jan 2011)
• Vietnam, whose milk industry is being totally transformed using high-yield Israeli cows (Feb 2011)
• Chile, whose rescued miners were treated to a tour of Israel as part of their "Pilgrimage of Thanks" (Feb 2011)
• New Zealand (Israel sent several rescue teams, temporary shelters and water purification systems following the Christchurch earthquake in Feb 2011)
• Japan (As well as rescue teams, Israel supplied geiger counters and Israeli thermal imaging cameras are monitoring the reactor cores - Mar 2011)
• Sri Lanka (Israel conducted a massive airlift with food, 50 medical staff and rescue teams only 48 hours after the Tsunami in Dec 2004)
• India (Israel sent an fully-equipped field hospital following Gujarat earthquake in Feb 2001)
• El Salvador (Israel relief aid following earthquake in 2001)
• Georgia (Israel contributed food and seeds for farmers following severe drought in 2001)
• Turkey (Israel relief aid following earthquake in 2000)
• Mozambique ((Israel relief aid following floods in 2000)
• Colombia (Israel sent medical aid and food following earthquake in 1999)
• Venezuela (President Chavez has forgotten Israel's aid following floods of 1999)
• Central America (Israel sent emergency medical aid teams and equipment to help victims of Hurricane Mitch in 1998)
• Pakistan (2005) and Peru (2007) both accepted aid from Israeli NGOs following earthquake disasters.
• Peru's hydo-electric power plants are also being built and run by an Israeli company.
• Rawanda, Mexico, Chad, Sudan (Darfur) and Malawi all have received medical assistance from Israel's NGO IsraAID.
5. Health
• Destroy all personal medication. Many medicines will have been manufactured by Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals, the largest generic drugs company in the world.
• AIDS and HIV suffers note that AZT and Hypericin-based drugs have all have been developed or improved following research at Israel's Weizmann Institute or Hebrew University; also a treatment that destroy HIV-infected cells without damaging healthy ones
• Diabeties sufferers - Israeli scientists have developed new devices for measuring and injecting Insulin
• Multiple Sclerosis -Copaxone - one of the most efficient medicines and the only non interferon agent, was developed by Teva
• Myeloma - the drug Velcade was developed over a period of 30 years by scientists at Haifa
• Emphasema - avoid the Israeli protein replacement therapy
• Check all vaccines as many of these have been developed in Israel.
• Ensure that all X-rays do carry a radiation risk, as the only radiation-free system is Israeli
• Do not use Epilady (or epilator) - this hair removal device was invented by two Israelis
• Ensure any colonoscopy or gastro investigation does not use internal Israeli cameras such as the Pillcam.
• Do not protect babies and infants from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome with the Babysense system from Israel.
• Do not undergo surgery to install an artificial heart, as the first artificial heart transplant took place in Israel.
• Sufferers of Parkinsons must avoid the brain pacemaker - pioneered in Israel to stop tremors. Also Levodopa to reduce motor disturbances. Or magnetic cortex stimulation
• Do not take any form of medication to combat cancer. Israeli scientists have been developing treatments in this area for decades. Full list available on request.
• Kidney transplants must only use kidneys from donors of the same blood group. Israel's revolutionary new methods allow donors from other blood groups.
• Treatments derived from Stem Cell research must be avoided as most of this is Israeli-developed
• If you or your family are struck with a bacteria infection, do not take alternatives to older, ineffective bacteria-resistant antibiotics as an Israeli discovery will have been responsible for the modern, effective drugs.
• Epileptics must avoid any treatment that may have benefited from the Israeli discovery of the underlying mutant gene.
• Employees of Arab origin must not make use of the only database for matching potential Arab donors of bone-marrow - in Israel.
• Check that any pain relief medication is not based on soya as an Israeli doctor discovered the beneficial effect of the soya bean.
• Before any surgery or medical tests, check that hospital catheters have not been protected from infection using the new plastic from Israel that disables micro-organisms
• Sufferers of sleep apnea must avoid tests using the breakthrough Israeli device for diagnosis.
• Employees with a family history of heart disease and arteriosclerosis must not use the Israeli device for early detection of these.
• Sufferers or relatives of sufferers of the eye disease Age-related Macular Degeneration must not use Israeli implants to arrest the disease.
• Avoid throat surgery as this may utilise Israeli surgical lasers.
• In the event of a spinal injury or disease, do not accept spinal implants - likely to be an Israeli product or development.
• Heart rhythm problems must not be solved with the Israeli-developed heart pulse generator.
• Any incident of stroke or head trauma or onset of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, epilepsy, glaucoma or brain tumour must avoid using any of the Weizmann Institute's patented methods of treatment.
• Do not use the revolutionary new Israeli bandage that saved Arizona senator Gabriella Giffords after she was shot in the head.
• Do not allow dyslexics to benefit from the Israeli Internet-based reading system.
• Sufferers from liver disease must avoid using the Israeli-developed antibody immunotherapy treatment.
• All heart stents are off-limits as most of these originate from Israeli medical companies
• If you break a bone badly, reject any treatment that involves introducing collagen, as this may have been manufactured from Israeli plants.
• Reject all dental treatment as your teeth may need to be scanned with an Israeli-developed dental scanner
• Treat skin allergies only with steroid creams as the new safer non-steroid alternative is Israeli
6. Other impacts of the boycott:
• Reject all products from the USA. Analysis conducted in a typical US state shows that Israeli innovations were responsible for $2..4 billion in direct revenue to its economy in 2009 and generated nearly 6,000 jobs.
• Do not tutor your children in advanced Mathematics techniques which may have originated in Israel. Also, if these techniques are used in your children's schools, withdraw your children immediately.
• Keen ornithologists should consider giving up their hobby as many rare species stop off or reside in Israel during their twice-yearly migration.
• Do not watch the new series of NCIS as the main actress is Israeli.
• Avoid going to any football matches featuring teams with Israeli players.
• Destroy all your recordings of Madonna, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Deep Purple, Bon Jovie, Justin Bieber, George Benson, Moby and many, many more artists who have ridiculed the stupid and illogical boycott and have proudly performed (or will shortly perform) concerts in Israel.
• Destroy any recordings of U2, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, Rihanna Coldplay and any artist whose music has been recorded using the sound technology of the Grammy Award winning Israeli company Wave Audio. You also must get rid of any personal copies of Shrek, American Beauty and Star Wars. Do not trust anything recorded by Sony, JVC, Toshiba or Dell.
• Don't go to see "The Black Swan" with Natalie Portman, or watch any old films with Elizabeth Taylor - both lovers of the Jewish State.
• Do not stay in hotels or visit shopping centres owned by Israeli companies (sorry, you will need to check which ones yourself).
• Do not have anything to do with the banks who are using Israeli software to prevent fraud.
• Do not use any Credit or Debit card as the Security monitoring system used by the Credit companies is likely to be Israeli.
• Do not buy an engagement ring containing a diamond as it is possible that this may have been cut in Israel.
• Do not travel by air as your plane might be towed by the Israeli-built "Taxibot".
• Do not use public transport inside Amsterdam, Moscow or Northern China in case you benefit from Israeli transportation devices.
• If you suffer a power or network failure, be grateful that at least you haven't installed the Israeli system that prevents power outages.
Finally, you need to leave all your taps running when you leave home and must never flush your toilet, because Israel provides water-saving technology to over half of the planet. It also is providing sewage treatment technology across the world, including to the UK.
Jonathan can be contacted by letter, telephone, or email. Emails sent to the address below will also be copied to his mobile phone:
Office: 01389 737511
Mobile: 07939 002 886
Email: jonathan.mccoll@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Council Offices
Garshake Road
Dumbarton
West Dunbartonshire
G82 3PU
Please be sure to tell Alan Black at the Edinburgh Castle on Geary Street precisely why you're now eschewing Keltic bog-swill in favor of Bourbon.
EDINBURGH CASTLE PUB
950 GEARY ST
SAN FRANCISCO, USA
415.885.4074
Or ye could drink a gin and tonic instead. Only four dollars.
HAPPY HOUR
$4 PINTS/$4 WELL
5 - 8pm every day
If the gin isn't imported from the British Isles, so much the better.
I'm sure that mister Alan Black, who is originally from Glasgow (right next door to the place with the highest unemployment in Britain: West Dunbarton) will be positivily overjoyed to hear that you're no longer spending your money on the spirits of hate and heart-burn. But do be sure to praise his selection of Bourbons and other fine American potes. Thank you.
I am a Pro Israel Scottish Nationalist. I have never been so ashamed of my political party or country.
This councillor should read history and work out who are his friends and who are his enemies.
Scotland is better than than this gesture politics of a council refuse collection organiser.
This jumped up communist lefty numpty does not represent Scotland or the SNP party. He represents the crappist part of the crappist part of Scotland
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