A truly moronic video
One of the current targets of the BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement is Aroma Cafe, a chain of coffee shops throughout Israel (some Kosher, some not), which has a store in New York City. This video was put out by Adalah, an 'Israeli Arab' organization (financed by the New Israel Fund), which is active in the BDS movement. The video is moronic. Please don't have any glasses near your computer when you play it. But I'm showing it to you for a reason that you won't get until you see it.Let's go to the videotape.
If you click through to the YouTube site, you will see that the comments are overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But this one is too good a catch not to share.
looking at the length of the shadows and also that no one else was around they must have filmed this at dawn. guess their convictions were not strong enough to do this when normal people were around?Go back and watch again and you'll see that s/he is 100% correct. There's no one inside. It may have been filmed on Shabbat (I have no idea whether the branch in Maaleh Adumim is Kosher and whether it is closed on Shabbat), but it was definitely filmed shortly after sunrise. These people are clearly afraid that someone was going to see them doing this.
Heh.
By the way, if the Aroma Cafe in New York is Kosher, please patronize it.
Labels: Aroma Cafe, BDS, Buycott Israel, Maaleh Adumim
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:17 AM
5 Comments:
Adalah-NY is not the same as -- nor an affiliate of -- the NGO in Israel which goes by the same Arabic word for "justice".
You can see the retraction over at Muqata for the same innocent mistake, including the comments by Adalah-NY members themselves.
NIF also has taken a clear stance against funding NGOs substantially involved in the global BDS movement. See Jeffrey Goldberg's recent post on this matter.
Many thanks.
what's up with all that hand waving and symbols?
are they trying to get their point across to the deaf too?
Amateur hour. Tone def singing is the least of their problems. (which could have been fixed with voice over) It's not funny, or outlandish so it won't reach anyone that doesn't already have an invested position in the "debate".
The Aroma logo shows up for 5seconds by accident in the corner of the screen? How do you boycott a company if you can't identify it? Sure in the second half they keep pointing up at the sign... THAT ISN'T IN FRAME!
Boycotters look like loons and the unwashed. How does this convey the boycott is cool?
Maybe they need to step up to Pallywood production standards.
Where in NYC is their branch?
I will totally go and buy what I can that happens to be kosher there, based on this.
Aroma Maaleh Adumim is kosher lemahadrin and of course closed on Shabbat. Had they sang their silly song when the coffee shop was open, they probably would have provided us with a few laughs before they were carried away.
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