Flowers From Meretz To UN Stymied By BDS

At Meretz headquarters in Tel Aviv, party members debated sending a delegation to the Security Council and presenting the flowers directly.

Tel Aviv, December 25 – Officials in the Meretz Party sought to send bouquets to the United Nations Security Council today, following the body’s decision to declare Israeli Jewish communities beyond the 1949 armistice line illegal, but were unable to complete the action after emboldened anti-Israel activists persuaded New York City florists not to accept orders from the Jewish State.

Meretz Chairwoman Zehava Gal-On, MKs Ilan Gilon and Tamar Zandberg, and five other functionaries of the party wished to celebrate the Council’s decision as a political victory for the Left, and placed an order online with a flower shop on the Eat Side of Manhattan for delivery to the UN building at Turtle Bay. However, a group of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions activists had already taken advantage of the morale boost the vote provided, and began campaigning noisily across New York for businesses and organizations to adopt the spirit of the resolution by imposing a boycott of Israel. Area florists cast their lot with the activists, and one by one declined to take Meretz’s order.

“We’re still looking for an enterprise, and I’m sure we’ll find one eventually,” predicted Gal-On. “Afer all, this is as much our celebration as it is BDS’s. We’re all working toward the same goal, if by slightly different means. I’m sure we’ll soon reach a florist who will accommodate us.”

In Manhattan, business owners were less certain. “Theses activists can male our lives miserable,” warned a Second Avenue proprietor who declined to be identified. “I can’t explain to them that the order I’m accepting is from allies in Israel, because they don’t see Israelis as allies. For them, the whole country has to be undermined, and there’s no nuance about it. I have my family to worry about – I can’t have these loudmouths threatening them also.”

At Meretz headquarters in Tel Aviv, party members debated sending a delegation to the Security Council and presenting the flowers directly. “We can bypass the unpleasantness that way,” explained Zandberg. “While we’re there, we can swing by Washington and take this final opportunity to share the smugness with a sitting president. A victory lap, if you will.” She added that while in the States the group should try to meet with BDS leaders and try to open a channel of communication, a prospect she admits is not a guaranteed success.

“But we have to try,” she insisted. “It’s a question of commitment and vision. If you will it, it is no dream. Besides, I could always just overstay my visa there and live among the cloistered elites of the East Coast where I’m much more at home than in such dangerous proximity to Jews with the means and will to assert pride in their particular heritage and country.”

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