BDS victory... Soda stream will leave the occupied West Bank (Good) -- but with a catch: New SodaStream factory will displace Bedouins instead (Not good, very bad, profiting from and supporting ethnic cleansing once again!) t.co/osneJ7oQYZ :( #BDS Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement statement on SodaStream factory closing: SodaStream has today announced it intends to move its main factory from an illegal Israeli settlement. Responding to the news, Rafeef Ziadah, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broad coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations that works to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, said: SodaStream’s announcement today shows that the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is increasingly capable of holding corporate criminals to account for their participation in Israeli apartheid and colonialism. BDS campaign pressure has forced retailers across Europe and North America to drop SodaStream, and the company’s share price has tumbled in recent months as our movement has caused increasing reputational damage to the SodaStream brand. Even if this announced closure goes ahead, SodaStream will remain implicated in the displacement of Palestinians. Its new Lehavim factory is close to Rahat, a planned township in the Naqab (Negev) desert, where Palestinian Bedouins are being forcefully transferred against their will. Sodastream, as a beneficiary of this plan, is complicit with this violation of human rights....
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:02:29 +0000
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