{"id":1134,"date":"2010-08-29T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2010-08-29T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:34:42","slug":"muslim-groups-in-scotland-boycotting-israeli-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Muslim groups in Scotland boycotting Israeli produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/polopoly_fs\/campaigners-1.1051192!image\/1270880299.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_620\/1270880299.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/polopoly_fs\/campaigners-1.1051192!image\/1270880299.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_620\/1270880299.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaigners were on the streets of Glasgow yesterday, encouraging shopkeepers to boycott Israeli goods<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a move that has worried Jewish groups, Muslim families who own stores in Glasgow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s south side are refusing to stock Israeli goods in protest at Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s West Bank settlements and policy towards Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Around 30 stores in Muslim communities in Pollokshields, Pollokshaws and Govanhill are supporting the drive and yesterday campaigners took to the streets to applaud shopkeepers who are no longer stocking Israeli products.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigners, who toured stores handing out flyers to shoppers, say shops which continue to stock Israeli goods will be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153named and shamed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends of Al Aqsa Glasgow, many stores in the area are now displaying posters declaring \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Israeli Produce sold here\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/home-news\/muslim-shops-ban-israeli-produce-in-palestine-protest-1.1051191\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/home-news\/muslim-shops-ban-israeli-produce-in-palestine-protest-1.1051191<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yet, we hear no one speaking up about bigotry and racism and hatred&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that has worried Jewish groups, Muslim families who own stores in Glasgow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s south side are refusing to stock Israeli goods in protest at Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s West Bank settlements and policy towards Palestinians. Around 30 stores in Muslim communities in Pollokshields, Pollokshaws and Govanhill are supporting the drive and yesterday campaigners took to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}