Take The Boycott Home: 5 Household Products That Support Israeli Apartheid
While Sodastream will reportedly close its controversial West Bank factory, BDS movement activists say that doesn’t end their issues with the Israeli company.
While Sodastream will reportedly close its controversial West Bank factory, BDS movement activists say that doesn’t end their issues with the Israeli company.
SodaStream has been criticized for participating in Israeli occupation and displacement of Palestinians.
AUSTIN, Texas — A growing number of people worldwide support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to bring an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, and it’s already forced major corporations to change their practices.
Earlier this month, MintPress News offered six grocery products to avoid to support BDS, but companies whose products support Zionist war crimes aren’t limited to grocery store shelves.
Here are five products and companies to avoid in support of a free Palestine, starting with one of the most well-known product boycotts:
“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.”
Yet Sodastream is far from the only corporation benefitting from Israeli occupation: