Medjool dates have always been a family favorite in my household during every Ramadan, but after reading the following, I cant stomach them anymore. I doubt you will too (unless of course, you can verify that the ones youre buying arent imported from Israel): These super-sweet dates are a Palestinian staple, traditionally eaten to break the Ramadan fast. But today, over half the global harvest of medjool dates is produced by Israel, often on settlements in Palestinian land and especially in the Jordan Valley. There, illegal labor practices have been recorded on a significant scale; in 2008, 7,000 Palestinian children were found to be working on settlement date farms. What’s more, the provenance of settlement dates is often concealed with a “produced in Israel” label — Hadiklaim, one of the biggest settlement producers, markets its products under the brand names Jordan River, Jordan River Bio-Tops and King Solomon. muslimvillage/2014/07/13/55694/8-israeli-products-boycott/
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:53:24 +0000
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