Yes I know you are just regurgitating. But you failed to mention a certain detail regarding the Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs. This is not a secular Jewish site or a Zionist site and we don’t care at all what those clubs do.
I am making it clear that those of us who follow Torah and know what hakoros hatov is should not follow the erev rav.
The boycott was started by a very strange extreme Zionist blogger and was picked up by a group of misguided Jews and insincere, improper converts whose values are inimical to Torah. The boycott, unlike some of the whiskys, is not kosher and doesn’t send any message to anyone. Jewish liquor consumption is a drop in the bucket (or cask), but nevertheless these distilleries want and deserve our business.
For those of us who care about kashrus, a hechsher on whisky is very important. That hechsher is far more important than the foolishness of a ragtag group of Jews who think they can somehow influence huge companies that happen to have operations in some remote part of Scotland where some idiotic local council decided to boycott the state of Israel.
I laugh at the idiocy of some basically frei Jewish mens clubs boycotting Chivas, which even Rav Landa says is kosher and therefore will always be found at real Jewish simchas and Shabbos tables. If any whisky from Dumbbelton or whatever that place is called finds its way into Chivas, it is meaningless anyway because Chivas is a blend.
I also continue to eat Turkish halva because if a firm in a Muslim country is willing to get hashgocho, they want and deserve Jewish customers regardless of their country’s government’s views on the state of Israel.
And I’ll make a special lechaim and sing “utzu etzo vesufar dabru dovor veloi yakum” in honor of the Mens’ Clubs and the Magen Tzedek and every other plan that movement, in which I was mis-educated, belches out before it runs out of steam.