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EUROPE: Made in Israeli Settlements, But Never Mind
By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Apr 3 (IPS) – European Union officials are seeking evidence to support claims that fruit and vegetables from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are being exported under false pretence. In a note circulated to its fellow EU governments in late 2008, Britain expressed concern that goods from Israeli settlements in […]
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WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT HERB?
By Tim Franks BBC News, Jerusalem Not all consumers are the same. Not all supermarket shoppers care just about price, or freshness, or brand. Some also care about from where a product came. Since I wrote about labelling of produce from the West Bank, in November, several people got in touch to tell me that […]
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PSC North Lobbies Minister Hilary Benn on Settlement goods
On Friday 20th March a group of PSC members and supporters from York, Halifax and Leeds lobbied Environment Minister Hilary Benn on UK trade with illegal Israeli settlements. This took place outside his Leeds Central constituency surgery Lawyers from the Department of the Environment, Foods and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office […]
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Londoners lock up criminal Israeli goods in Tesco
03/29/09 A new idea for the boycott campaign… Sunday 29 March 2009, Londoners converged towards Tesco supermarkets in West London in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. View the images of the locked up fruit here: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/425650.html Avocadoes, pomellos, cherry tomatoes, herbs and dates grown in Israel and on illegal settlements in […]
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Cyprus checking out Israeli fruit con
Posted by RORCoalition on Fri, 04/03/2009 – 13:08 By Nathan Morley [Cyprus Mail] 19 March 2009 – COMMERCE Minister Antonis Paschalides is looking into a humiliating blunder by a leading EU supermarket chain after it sold tons of Israeli fruit as “Produce of Cyprus”, he said yesterday. German-owned Aldi were left red-faced when they admitted […]
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Israeli exports hit by European boycotts after attacks on Gaza
A fifth of Israeli exporters report drop in demand as footage of Gaza attacks changes behaviour of consumers and investors Rachel Shabi, in Tel Aviv guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 April 2009 16.16 BST Israeli companies are feeling the impact of boycott moves in Europe, according to surveys, amid growing concern within the Israeli business sector over […]
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Motorola Sells Israel Bomb Division as National Boycott Campaign Advances
by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Washington, DC (April 2) — The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and allied organizations participating in a national boycott campaign against Motorola welcomed news that Motorola Israel Ltd. has sold its Government Electronics Department, which made several products that enable Israel’s military occupation of […]
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Apartheid isn’t kosher. This Passover, boycott Israeli wines.
Apartheid isn”t kosher. This Passover, boycott Israeli wines. Join Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism in a peaceful information picket in support of the Palestinian struggle for justice in a non-violent way. Sunday April 5 1:00-3:00 LCBO 10 Scrivener Square (Summerhill subway; near Yonge and Summerhill) ****************** Boycott the following wines: Dalton […]
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Israeli exporters forced to slash prices due to boycott
Date: 31 / 03 / 2009 Time: 12:55 Bethlehem – Ma”an – Israeli exporters have been forced to cut prices in part because of a worldwide boycott of Israeli products in protest of Israel”s occupation of Palestinian land, a leading industry association reported this week. Israeli exporters have been “losing foreign markets and customers because […]
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Economic Peace is Easy
Dear friends, As Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to see his government sworn in later today (Tuesday), the sophisticated PR spin that Netanyahu is infamous for is already well on its way. This time the focus is economy. We are not fooled. We hope you will not be either. Please use the links below […]
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