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Palestinians lose Sodastream jobs after Israel boycott
Associated Press ^
| Feb 29, 2016 1:10 PM EST
Posted on 02/29/2016 11:36:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
The chief executive of SodaStream International Ltd. says he has been forced to lay off hundreds of Palestinian workers after a factory was targeted by an international boycott movement and moved from the West Bank into Israel. [...]
The global boycott movement seeks to ostracize Israel by lobbying corporations, artists and academic institutions to sever ties with the Jewish state. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bds; palestinians; rop; sodastream
AP reporting news from two years ago as current.
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posted on
02/29/2016 11:36:02 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Was gonna say, but I thought it was more like about a year.
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posted on
02/29/2016 11:52:21 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: Olog-hai
The Left wants the Palestinians to be poor so that they would be one of many mascots for the “causes” of the “anointed”.
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posted on
02/29/2016 12:24:03 PM PST
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Olog-hai
Old news, but still a good move. Who in their right mind would buy a Sodastream product with Pali spit (or worse) in it?
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02/29/2016 1:17:23 PM PST
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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posted on
02/29/2016 4:43:22 PM PST
by
SJackson
(The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a)
To: Olog-hai
Sodastream employed hundreds of Palestinians and paid them a decent wage. But the liberals’ BDS movement didn’t care who they were hurting.
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posted on
02/29/2016 6:38:06 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
To: Olog-hai
So the Boycott is working ..crimeny sakes. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Pali’s” meaning psuedo-Philistines?
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03/01/2016 7:42:23 AM PST
by
Karliner
( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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