The Co-op board has agreed to enact Motion 13! The motion which was put forward at the AGM was a non-binding motion, however the board has made the correct and noble decision to implement the motion and cut ties with all made in Israel products. Following a full board review of the motion the co-op…
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Six members of Dumfries & Galloway SPSC Branch went to “Sainsbury’s Superstore” at Newton Stewart to join in the UK effort to pressurise Sainsbury’s UK management to follow the Coop and stop trading with companies involved in Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. We built on the precedent established at Kelso “Sainsbury’s Superstore” in…
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Israel has stepped up its construction of illegal settlement building. Defence for Children international reports that Israel continues to kill Palestinians, including many hundreds of children, using drones and other means of delivering high explosives to defenceless Palestinians. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel is ongoing; the Palestinian village of Umm el-Hieran is…
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Boycott Israel Network (BIN) media release Saturday 28 April 2012 Palestine human rights campaigners today welcomed news that the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group, will “no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements”. The Co-op’s decision, notified to campaigners in a statement, will immediately…
In a lovely day in September 2011, a group of commited activities entered Tesco in Canonmils in Edinburgh. Tesco sells Israeli produce, profits that are used to finance the Israeli enconomy and to ethically cleanse the Palestinian people. The group, the Scottish Palestine Solidariry campaign wanted to raise awareness with the general public. The Scottish…
UK supermarkets targeted for stocking Israeli goods Jerusalem Post original article: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=159789 JONNY PAUL, Jerusalem Post correspondent in London 07/11/2009 23:32 “We are not motivated by politics…” Waitrose staff had visited the West Bank and were happy with the producers. UK supermarkets targeted LONDON – Activists are targeting two supermarket chains in a weeklong protest starting…
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