The BDS movement is based on the movement by the same name targeted at apartheid South Africa, which did have a significant impact in getting rid of the regime. That said the amount of money Americans are compelled legally to spend on Israel vastly outstrips any changes regular people could make in their daily lives so idk how effective it can be in this case. The American empire seems inextricably tied to Israeli dominance these days.
The Canadian movement to not buy from the USA is already showing some economic impact (though it’s hard to see through all of the other self-inflicted economic problems the USA has caused). It doesn’t even take that much time to have a real economic impact.
Depends on what you define as “meaningful”, but lots of things have already reached that threshold in my opinion. Travel into the US has dropped by up to 50% in some cases, which severely hurts their tourism industry, especially in northern parts of the USA. US politicians are talking about it, claiming outrageous things like “Canada has banned US goods”. Canadians stores are struggling to sell some USA products, being forced to put discounts on them and stopping or postponing the order of replacement stock.
Anyway, symbols are only worth something if they mean something.
It wasn’t on my bingo card that
Would make a come back but this time the Israel state doing the genocide.
I understand auch that many Israeli people are supporting it, but not all of them. It’s a fucked up situation.
At the same time, somehow the ‘don’t buy from the russian’ doesn’t seem to be very effective, so I can’t see this working either.
The BDS movement is based on the movement by the same name targeted at apartheid South Africa, which did have a significant impact in getting rid of the regime. That said the amount of money Americans are compelled legally to spend on Israel vastly outstrips any changes regular people could make in their daily lives so idk how effective it can be in this case. The American empire seems inextricably tied to Israeli dominance these days.
It is more of symbolic message than actual pain for the gencoiders like israel and Russia
If people actually stick to it, long term it would have economic impact IMHO
The Canadian movement to not buy from the USA is already showing some economic impact (though it’s hard to see through all of the other self-inflicted economic problems the USA has caused). It doesn’t even take that much time to have a real economic impact.
Sure Canadians can hurt a few American parasites but Canada doesn’t have the scale to make US hurt in any meaningful way though
So it falls into symbiotic message category imho
Depends on what you define as “meaningful”, but lots of things have already reached that threshold in my opinion. Travel into the US has dropped by up to 50% in some cases, which severely hurts their tourism industry, especially in northern parts of the USA. US politicians are talking about it, claiming outrageous things like “Canada has banned US goods”. Canadians stores are struggling to sell some USA products, being forced to put discounts on them and stopping or postponing the order of replacement stock.
Anyway, symbols are only worth something if they mean something.
Meaningful means it will impact US regime whores to actually change course.
So far nothing really worked on them.
So pressure needs to be escalated to the max