While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.
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.
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.
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