Don’t Flirt with the Occupation!
FEBRUARY 10TH 2007
VALENTINES MASS DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CARMEL-AGREXCO
The Valentines Day period is one of Agrexco UK's busiest times as the company deals with large amounts of fresh flowers from Israel and the settlements. A mass picket of the Carmel-Agrexco depot on the 10th February 2007 has been organised in Middlesex in opposition to the sale of Israeli Apartheid goods and in support of Palestinian farmers.
Don't buy your Valentine's Day flowers or strawberries from Agrexco! Check the labels in the supermarkets - Agrexco supplies many stores such as Sainsburys and Tesco.
Find out more Israeli goods and get involved in a campaign against Agrexco UK in Scotland contact us.
Avocados, Diamonds at Core of Israel Boycott Trade Campaign
Moyiga Nduru, The Electronic Intifada, 28 January 2007
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 26 (IPS) - A call from a South African trade unionist for national supermarket chains to stop importing avocado from Israel could ultimately lead to the banning of all imports from the Jewish state, if unions and human rights activists have their way.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6458.shtml
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, January 20th, 2007
Palestinian and international organizations have staged protests and are organizing a boycott campaign against companies that continue to support the occupation of Palestine. This is beginning to catch on in Europe, with one region in Norway cutting ties with Israel (The US has threatened "serious political consequences" if these becomes a part of Norwegian policy).
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1386.shtml
Agrexco UK Blockaded For Third Time
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, December 2nd, 2006
Early on Sunday,26th of November 2006, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli Company Carmel Agrexco’s UK headquarters. This was part of a protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in Palestine.
Carmel is complicit in war crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICC Act). They import fresh produce originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1372.shtml
Carmel Agrexco's UK headquarters in Hayes blockaded
Report, TWMF, 26 November 2006
Early this morning, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli Company Carmel Agrexco's UK headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the occupied territories of Palestine.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6109.shtml
WORLD BANK PROPOSES OILING THE PRISON GATES
Analysis, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, September 18th, 2006
The recent report from the World Bank, An Update on Palestinian Movement, Access and Trade in the West Bank and Gaza, vividly illustrates the damage that is being done to Palestinian people and trade by the ongoing occupation. It further highlights the extent to which the World Bank is complicit with Israel's designs to enclose Palestinians behind the Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/analysisandfeatures/1309.shtml
UK Headquarters of Israeli Company Blockaded to Gain Ruling on Legality of Trading with Settlements
Mary Nazzal-Batayneh, The Electronic Intifada, 3 September 2006
Activists arrived at the UK headquarters of Carmel-Agrexco before sunrise on Wednesday morning for a day of uncompromising protest. The purpose underlying the protest was clear: to expose an Israeli company that is engaging in continuous unlawful and brutal activity by importing fresh produce originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5665.shtml
Alex Ali, Hillingdon Times (31 August 2006)
PRO-PALESTINIAN activists shackled themselves to fences in Hayes yesterday morning (Wednesday) in a protest agianst Israel's largest food exporter.
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/display.var.900924.0.protestors_call_for_boycott_of_israeli_food_company.php
Agrexco blockaded in London
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, August 30th, 2006
Early Wednesday morning on August 30 Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Occupation company Carmel Agrexco’s UK headquarters. This was part of an ongoing campaign against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in Palestine.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1291.shtml
Caterpillar& Co. under pressure for supporting Israeli Apartheid
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, July 10th, 2006
On the 9th of July, 2006 – the second anniversary of the ICJ decision that deemed the apartheid wall illegal – War on Want presented its new report about corporate responsibility in the occupation of Palestine at a one-day conference in London entitled "Profiting from the Occupation: A people's tribunal to expose the corporations behind Israel's occupation of Palestine". The report "Profiting from the Occupation" comes at a time when occupation forces, backed by their supporters, are committing the most atrocious war crimes against the Palestinian population in Gaza.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1221.shtml
Profiting from the Occupation: The corporate interests fuelling conflict in Palestine
Nick Dearden, War on Want, 6 July 2006
We hear little from the Palestinian Occupied Territories other than endless death, destruction, poverty and despair. While living standards plummet and the death toll rockets, it’s difficult to imagine a less likely place to make a profit. But despite the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding, and the international attention it receives, names familiar on high streets across Europe and the US are actively supporting Israel’s Occupation of Palestine through their business practices – threatening to prolong the misery of the Palestinian people for many years to come.
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/12/4920
Download report: http://www.waronwant.org/download.php?id=443
Crime in the Valley: Life on the Other Side of Palestine
Nick Dearden, War on Want, 5 July 2006
Beyond the barren Judean Mountain range, east from Jerusalem, lies the Jordan Valley, an area which receives almost no media coverage, despite being home to 52,000 Palestinians and accounting for 30% of West Bank territory.
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/12/4900
Community Voice, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, May 8th, 2006
Last year the Occupation launched a huge "development project" to expand the settlements and their farms in the Valley. Companies like Carmel Agrexco (of which the Occupation directly own 75%) make enormous profits from this Occupation policy. The majority of their goods come from the Jordan Valley being transported from packing houses in the Valley to European markets in 24 hours. With distribution depots in most countries in Europe - including major supermarket chains – international support for Occupation exports sustains the mechanisms that create devastation for Palestinians. While Palestinian agriculture and livelihoods are being destroyed, undermining the existence of villages and farms throughout the Valley, the need for a strong and coordinated boycott of Apartheid Israel and its exports is more vital than ever.
http://stopthewall.org/communityvoices/1150.shtml
Agrexco Blockaders Acquitted in UK Trial
Report, CG, 28 January 2006
In a remarkable judgement, Thursday 26th Jan 2006, after a half time application by the defence team in the Uxbridge 7 trial, a District judge ruled that seven anti-apartheid protesters who had blockaded the Israeli agricultural export company, Agrexco UK, had no case to answer and the case was dismissed.
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/12/4438
Activist Court Case Puts Apartheid Israel On Trial
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, January 28th, 2006
Seven Palestine solidarity activists are in court in Britain this week facing prosecution but aiming to use the case to highlight the call for boycott and divestment from Apartheid Israel. The case will argue that trade with Israeli companies, which profit from the Occupation and the oppression of the Palestinian people, is illegal and must be ended.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1085.shtml
Gaza Farmers Further Squeezed by the Occupation
Latest News, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, January 14th, 2006
Every Palestinian farmer is obliged to label crops as Israeli Agrexco products in order to be able to export them through the Occupation monopoly. The Occupation Ministry of Agriculture forces the Palestinian farmers to undergo expensive Israeli testing procedures before any kind of export is possible. Strawberries are to be put in small plastic boxes, indicating the place of production and the weight of the box before and after packaging. All these procedures raise the production costs enormously, yet the Occupation monopoly company places the weight of all these expenses on the farmers.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1083.shtml
Legality of Israeli Settlements Examined In UK Criminal Trial
Report, CG, 4 September 2005
Seven Palestine solidarity protesters from London and Brighton were arrested on 11th November last year after they took part in a non-violent blockade outside the UK base of an Israeli agricultural export company Agrexco (UK) Ltd, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex.
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/11/4162
Apartheid and Agrexco in the Jordan Valley
Lena Green, The Electronic Intifada, 4 September 2005
JORDAN VALLEY, PALESTINE -- In Israel and the Occupied Territories the colour orange is symbolic of opposition to the Gaza 'disengagement'. It can be seen on banners; t-shirts; propaganda material; protesters storming the old city in Jerusalem or the young people with petitions gathering signatures in Israeli bus stations. Orange streamers are handed out at road junctions in Israel and attached to cars flying down the settler-only highways of the West Bank.
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/11/4161