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Talk on Corporate Complicity in Israeli apartheid
given by Corporate Watch at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/05/451860.html
given by Corporate Watch at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/05/451860.html
Almost every morning, between 3 and 4am, hundreds of workers from outside the Jordan Valley, from towns as far away as Nablus and even Jenin, queue at Al Hamra checkpoint, sometimes for hours, to get to work at the Israeli settlements in the valley. Often workers arrive too early, for Read more…
2018 Update – After pressure from the BDS movement, Orange has pulled out of its franchise deal with Israeli company Partner Communications see here. The Partner network is no longer using the Orange brandname. Throughout our research around the West Bank it has become obvious that one of the most Read more…
The Syrian Golan was occupied by military force by Israel in 1967. Towns and villages and cities of the indigenous Syrian residents were razed and 131, 000 of the residents forcibly expelled. The area remains under military occupation and has been colonised by Israeli settlers who have established 33 settlements Read more…
Burger King has announced that it plans to pull out of the 55 branches of its Israeli franchise Burger Ranch currently operates 107 resteraunts in Israel, including several based in illlegal settlements: Burger Ranch is owned in Israel by Orgad Holdings.
Big corporations are not alone in implementing the Israeli occupation on the ground. Especially in the smaller settlements which do not yet have any industry or commercial outlets, ideological charities and religious groups play a crucial role when it comes to encouraging settlement expansion. This is the case with Maskiot, the first new settlement to be approved in the West Bank for a decade when it was officially established in the middle of 2008.
Located in the Jordan Valley, an area under heavy threat of Israeli annexation, (See, for example, http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3403 ) Maskiot is strongly Zionist and inhabited by ex-Gaza settlers determined to continue to steal Palestinian land and ‘repopulate’ the Valley with Jews. In other words, ethnically cleanse the area of Palestinians. Last week (Sunday the 28thof April), as a clear provocation, armed settlers from Maskiot entered the Bedouin area of Al Maleh and set up a tent only ten meters from the community, preventing the people there from accessing some of their land (see http://www.brightonpalestine.org/node/618). This act follows numerous acts of aggression against the people of Al Maleh during the last few years. The settlers are helped in these pursuits by their supporters. In the case of Maskiot this means The One Israel Fund and Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, who have both contributed to Maskiot’s development. (more…)