Man Has Local Shop Make Pro-BDS Shirts To Sell At Guns ‘N’ Roses Tel Aviv Concert

“Admit it, you’re jealous you didn’t think of this yourself first.”

Yarkon Park, December 5 – Axl Rose and his bandmates will perform here in seven months, but one area entrepreneur already sees an economic niche that the scheduled concert has opened today: selling fans and concert attendees some locally-sourced T-shirts to protest the ensemble’s visit to Israel instead of adhering to a call to boycott the Jewish State.

Activist and businessman Guy Avek, 30, hopes to merge his political orientation with his ability to turn a profit, and has already ordered three hundred shirts with a BDS logo and an assortment of slogans from a Haifa enterprise that offered competitive pricing and delivery. Avek intends to offer the shirts for sale online through a new website and from a Facebook page he plans to set up for the purpose.

“It’s almost the perfect market,” gushed the entrepreneur. “We’re talking about people who definitely have the means to buy a t-shirt, or several, since they’ll be spending upwards of five hundred shekels for each ticket. They clearly have an appreciation for Western culture, which already places them in an elite minority – and as everyone knows, the only elite minority that’s worth anything in this country is the progressive Left. That’s right: jackpot. Admit it, you’re jealous you didn’t think of this yourself first,” he challenged a reporter who gave him a look of skepticism.

Guns ‘n’ Roses announced this week that it will extend its current international tour, dubbed the Not in This Lifetime…Tour, to include multiple international cities, including the Yarkon Park venue just outside Tel Aviv. The band last appeared in Israel in 2012, and before that in 1992. The 2012 performance also came amid demands from supporters of BDS – boycott, divest, sanctions – against Israel, including music personalities such as Roger Waters, that the band not appear in the Jewish State.

Avek hopes to harness the power of the BDS movement against Israel to bolster his sales, thus bringing together two important elements of his life: his need to earn money and his need to feel important. “Of course I’d love to sell all the shirts at the concert, or before it, but that’s not the main point,” he explained. “The point is to put the struggle of the Palestinians front and center, and to call attention to the Israeli policies that keep them oppressed and under occupation. What better way to do that than to stand outside a concert arena where people paid good money for tickets to see one of the most famous and successful rock bands of all time, and offer to sell them shirts calling the band’s decision to put on the performance an act of support for war crimes?”

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