Sainsbury's, the second largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury. As of June 2014, there were 1,230 locations in the UK, including one in Holborn, central London, located about half a mile from the company’s headquarters at Holborn Circus. When anti-Israel protesters picketed the Holbon store the other day, calling on the grocer to boycott Israeli goods, the manager allegedly feared the store would be ransacked. The solution smacked of appeasement: empty out the kosher food shelves, as reported by the Daily Mail. What happened next? Irate customers pointed out the obvious, causing the store to back down -- though it has not been reported whether anyone reminded the panicky manager what transpired after Prime Minister Chamberlain came back from his talks with Hitler waving a piece of paper. Many of the goods hurriedly taken off the shelves came not from Israel but from Britain and Poland. Reading labels is...(Read Full Post)