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Financial Times editorial criticises SodaStream and illegal Israeli settlement firms

On January 31, leading international business newspaper the Financial Times published an editorial criticising SodaStream and illegal Israeli settlement firms.

January 31, 2014
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Financial Times
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Scarlett Johansson quits Oxfam role following public outcry

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Scarlett Johansson has today announced that she is resigning her role as Oxfam ambassador following a huge outcry over her role as the public face of a ad campaign by SodaStream, an Israeli company that based in an illegal Israeli settlement.

Rafeef Ziadah, a spokesperson with the Palestinian

January 30, 2014
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
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Cartoonists to Angouleme Festival: Drop SodaStream

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014-- Over forty cartoonists and illustrators
from a dozen countries around the world released an open letter today
to Franck Bondoux, director of the International Festival of Comics at
Angoulême, asking the festival to drop its relationship with the
Israeli drink manufacturer SodaStream.

January 30, 2014
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40 cartoonists
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Palestinians ask Rome council to boycott Mekorot

Palestinian civil society organizations highlight that the proposed collaboration between Rome's water company ACEA and Mekorot amounts to a violation of the Italian state's legal obligation not to assist Israeli violations of international law and urge the ACEA to follow the principled stand taken by Dutch water company Vitens and ensure that it does not contribute to violations of international law and human rights committed by Mekorot.

Occupied Palestine, 29 January 2013

Dear Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente (ACEA) board members, Mayor Ignazio Marino and the Assemblea

January 29, 2014
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Palestinian civil society organisations
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Palestinian civil society to Oxfam: “match words with action”, break ties with Scarlett Johansson

Occupied Palestine, January 27 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society, including trade unions, political parties, popular committees and NGOs, calls on Oxfam to immediately sever ties with Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson over her vocal support for illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.[1]

SodaStream markets itself as environmentally friendly, but this hides an ugly truth: the company is a colonial enterprise with its main production facility located

January 27, 2014
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
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Another Italian Council condemns Pizzarotti over A1 train

The Italian Coalition Stop That Train calls on the Italian government to following the example of other European countries and discourage Italian companies from operating in violation of international law

On December 27, the town council of Villar Focchiardo, in the province of Torino, voted unanimously to approve a resolution condemning Pizzarotti & Co SpA of Parma for its involvement in the Israeli high-speed railway crossing the occupied West Bank.

January 17, 2014
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BDS Italia
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Veolia loses out on $4 billion Boston contract

Over the last two and a half years, supporters of Palestinian rights in Boston have mounted a BDS campaign aimed at denying a new contract to run the Massachusetts commuter rail to Veolia, one of three companies that formed the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR).  With a 60 percent stake in the MBCR, Veolia has been in charge of operating and maintaining the trains since 2003.

On January 8, they tasted victo

January 13, 2014
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Nancy Murray at Mondoweiss
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Dutch pension giant divests from 5 Israeli banks

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Dutch pension fund PGGM announced on the front page of its website today that it had withdrawn tens of millions of Euros worth of investments from five Israeli banks.

The fund cited the ba

January 13, 2014
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Asa Winstanley Electronic Intifada
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G4S contracts in Israeli occupied territories face major investigation

G4S, the security company which has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past two years, is facing an investigation by international authorities into its alleged activities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Sources said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) UK staff have indicated that it will be investigating the company’s work supplying Israeli security services.

It is alleged that G4S provides Israel with surveillance equipment at its checkpoints in the occupied territories, although the precise nature of the equi

Stop G4S
January 13, 2014
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Jim Armitage at The Independent
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Jordan Valley settlements hit by boycott campaign

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NETIV HAGDUD, West Bank — An international campaign to boycott Israeli settlement products has rapidly turned from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality for Israeli farmers in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley.

The export-driven income of growers in the valley’s 21 settlements dropped by more than 14 percent, or $29 million, last year, largely because Western European s

Farming Injustice
January 10, 2014
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Associated Press