Danish Boycott of Israel taking Effect Date -
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Published on: 5/8/2002
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"He's a stubborn man," Dov Shoam, CEO of Radix Technologies said, after meeting in Copenhagen with Jens Peter Hansen, head of SiD -the General Workers Union in Denmark.
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"He was maybe willing to listen, but we didn't receive the smallest hint that he was willing to change his position, "Shoam told Yediot Aharonot."Maybe we will have to 'bombard' them some more until they realize that they were wrong."
Shoam was referring to a massive Internet campaign he launched after Hansen announced that SiD was canceling its order of 60 units of the "Radix Protector" net solution card.The order was valued at about $10,000, the Jerusalem Post reported, but would have led to follow-up deals valued at tens of thousands of dollars.
Shoam's correspondence with Hansen received a good amount of publicity on the Internet, and resulted in SiD receiving more than 5,000 e-mail messages from people identifying with Shoam, Yediot Aharonot said.
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Shoam, himself, received over 4,000 messages of support.
"For the moment, when the Israeli military is behaving so rough in the Palestinian Areas, nor I or my Union feel that it's is right to make business with companies from your country," Hansen wrote in his cancellation notification to Shoam.
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"Let me clearly state that I have no problem choosing between doing business with you or supporting my government in its effort to protect my daughter's life," Shoam wrote in a reply to Hansen posted on the Radix company Web site.
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"I did what the official authorities [in Israel] should have done," Shoam said.