It’s been a good day – unless you are a BDS-hole.
Then again, when is it a good day to be a hateful turd?
BDS Backfiring
Some BDS w(h)ining and sour grapes:
As a supporter of boycotting Israel, Mieke Zagt had no intention of marketing Israeli wine when she posted on Twitter a picture of it on sale at the Hema Dutch supermarket chain.
But her tweet, meant to protest the sale, prompted Israel supporters here to mount a social media reaction so successful that the Israeli wines sold out at the Hema and the campaign became the number-one trending topic on Dutch Twitter on Tuesday.
The opening shot for the #tipvanMieke campaign was a tweet that Zagt, a scholar and Electronic Intifada contributor with fewer than 1,300 followers on Twitter, posted Monday afternoon.
“Hey, Hema, you’re selling Efrat wine from Judean Hills [as] made in Israel. Is this possible? Efrat and Judean Hills are in occupied Palestinian land. Efrat is an illegal Israeli colony. Can you verify the origin? #hema #notAgainAye!??” Zagt wrote, attaching a picture of the bottles in question.
In reality, the Efrat Winery is one of Israel’s oldest and located in Tsor’a, a town that is located within Israel’s 1949 armistice line. Despite its name, the wine is not from disputed territory.
But Zagt’s tweet ended in more than a geography lesson.
Gideon van der Sluis, a Dutch-born Israeli business consultant, and several other pro-Israel advocates began engaging on Twitter with like-minded users about Zagt’s tweet, labeling it with a hashtag meaning “TipFromMieke.” Within 24 hours it became the top-trending item on Dutch Twitter, with people from around the country using it with pictures of freshly bought Efrat wine bottles.
Within hours, both the red and white Efrat wines were sold out from the online store of Hema — a huge chain with 525 stores in the Netherlands alone.
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Mieke Zagt, it would seem, had a different outlook on the whole extravaganza.
On Twitter, she seemed to suggest that the people mocking her were engaged in “intimidation and defamation.” Her hecklers, she added, “are showing their real Twitter nature,“ which she called “very disturbing.” Zagt did not reply to JTA’s request for comment on Twitter.
Take That Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib!
Meanwhile, Omar has – wait for it – criticized Nancy Pelosi for her use of language!
“A condemnation for people that want to exercise their First Amendment rights is beneath any leader, and I hope that we find a better use of language when we are trying to speak as members of Congress that are sworn to protect the Constitution,” Omar told reporters in a Capitol hallway after a House Democratic Caucus meeting on Tuesday.
Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
When the parody Mossad account tweeted jokingly for Iranian agents, one hater decided to let their finger do the talking:
https://twitter.com/mobarez_nastooh/status/1110789645619642368
Big mistake.
#IntelInside pic.twitter.com/mBPdVHor1c
— The Mossad (@TheMossadIL) March 27, 2019
