If you want to be a thoughtful consumer, it means you got to be thinking about something more than just the price and your perceived use of a product.
There must be some ethical consideration that also influences your purchase. So we need to talk about which ethical considerations are important and not aiding and abetting Israeli crimes through financing their economy or companies that provide them with arms or other military use items, is a quite important ethical consideration.
Taking note of the resolutions of the Security Council and General Assembly, the Court
is of the view that Member States are under an obligation not to recognize any changes in the physical
character or demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the territory occupied by
Israel on 5 June 1967, including East Jerusalem, except as agreed by the parties through negotiations
and to distinguish in their dealings with Israel between the territory of the State of Israel and the
Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. The Court considers that the duty of distinguishing
dealings with Israel between its own territory and the Occupied Palestinian Territory encompasses,
inter alia, the obligation to abstain from treaty relations with Israel in all cases in which it purports
to act on behalf of the Occupied Palestinian Territory or a part thereof on matters concerning the
Occupied Palestinian Territory or a part of its territory; to abstain from entering into economic or
trade dealings with Israel concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory or parts thereof which may
entrench its unlawful presence in the territory; to abstain, in the establishment and maintenance of
diplomatic missions in Israel, from any recognition of its illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory; and to take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of
the illegal situation created by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Now the ICJ ruled on the obligation of states, but the underlying principle is clear. If the states are obliged “to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel…”, the trade itself is illegal.
If you want to be a thoughtful consumer, it means you got to be thinking about something more than just the price and your perceived use of a product.
There must be some ethical consideration that also influences your purchase. So we need to talk about which ethical considerations are important and not aiding and abetting Israeli crimes through financing their economy or companies that provide them with arms or other military use items, is a quite important ethical consideration.
It is also a legal obligation as the ICJ ruled https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186/186-20240719-adv-01-00-en.pdf:
Now the ICJ ruled on the obligation of states, but the underlying principle is clear. If the states are obliged “to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel…”, the trade itself is illegal.