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This is not to suggest that environmentalists should be spineless. The threat of boycott prompted Home Depot to promise to phase out its selling of wood from old-growth forests. The good news is that once an industry leader turns green, the rest often follow, fearful that consumers will punish them if they don't. Today every major home-improvement retailer makes an effort to sell only products certified to have come from sustainably managed forests...
...logic of the cigarette boycott may be questionable - like many other "American" goods on the boycott list, the Marlboros on sale in Egypt are actually produced here - but it does provide an emotional outlet for anger against America, whose unconditional support for Israel, people believe, enables what they see as the Jewish state's ongoing assault on Palestinian society. The guilty Marlboro-smoker must typically have prepared some defense, as my friend Amr did last week: "I just came back from Ramallah, and I'll have you know, it makes no difference on the ground what you smoke...
...boycott has its parallel in consumer life across the Middle East, as many Arabs seek to their match their buying habits to the common political view of the U.S. as a self-serving, hypocritical power that threatens the region. And that image alarms not only merchants trying to move American products, but also Washington's policy makers, who see it as a dangerous distortion of the administration's real foreign policy message. That's why the White House recently created an "Office of Global Communications," whose task will be to clean up America's image abroad by, for example, clarifying...
...Hindus who helped Muslims, like headman Rana, are receiving death threats. The VHP has circulated pamphlets urging Hindus to boycott Muslim businesses, refuse Muslims jobs and not work in their offices. Police reports on the riots adamantly emphasize that Muslims began them: the spark for the violence was a still unexplained firebombing of a train filled with Hindu pilgrims, in which 59 died. According to independent human-rights groups like the People's Union for Democratic Rights, most Hindus arrested for rioting were released on bail within days. In the first hearing in July, a judge in Lunawada dismissed...
Greenblatt and others have argued that a boycott undermines the “truth-seeking” goals of the academy and is not an appropriate tactic to indicate support for Palestinians...