Caterpillar is headquartered in the United States and employs 100,000 people. The company’s profits skyrocketed by 700% in 2019 to $6.15 billion. This company profile summarises: • Injuries and deaths caused by Caterpillar bulldozers• Caterpillar’s dealerships in both Israel and the UK• Resistance against the company so far• Legal action Read more…
Here are the references for our 2020 update to Apartheid in the Fields P3. Introduction https://mondoweiss.net/2019/11/un-publishes-database-ofcompanies-profiting-off-human-rights-abuses-not-on-israel-but-myanmar/ P4. The ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Jordan Valley https://btselem.org/jordan_valley See, for example, https://corporateoccupation.org/2010/08/11/the-jordan-valley-meeting-point-the-jewish-national-funds-racist-alternative-reality/ https://m.btselem.org/jordan_valley http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/reports/al-jazeera-how-israel-engages-in-water-apartheid/ http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/reports/al-jazeera-how-israel-engages-in-water-apartheid/ http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/news/tractors-and-water-tanks-confiscated-in-al-maleh/ http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/jv%20map%20tony.jpg https://www.btselem.org/jordan_valley https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jordan-palestine-refugee-camps-photography-a8341826.html https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Nahal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalya Corporate Occupation has interviewed multiple Jordan Valley residents who were forced Read more…
Lidl, the German discount supermarket chain, has stores all over Europe and the US. During 2019, we photographed Mehadrin grapefruit on sale in Lidl stores in the UK. Mehadrin is one of the largest exporters of fruit from the Israel’s Jordan Valley settlements (see page 26). We also photographed Israeli Read more…
Asda has made several statements denying that it stocks goods fromthe West Bank since ITN’s 2007 report on settlement goods in UK supermarkets. However, in 2009 Asda made several ambiguous statements contradicting its earlier stance. A spokesperson from the company wrote: “I am sure you can imagine it is very Read more…
Like its competitor Tesco, Sainsbury’s has previously sold produce that the supermarket knew was from illegal West Bank settlements. It continues tostock produce from Mehadrin. In 2008 activists took photographs of Sainsbury’s ‘SO Organic’ and ‘Taste the Difference’ Medjoul dates clearly labelled ‘Grown in West Bank’ inside the Jordan Valley Read more…
M&S has faced protest due to its historical ideological support for the Israeli state, and because of its continued policy of stocking Israeli goods. Until 2008 M&S openly sold products from illegal Israeli settlements. The Guardian reported in 2004 that the company stocked an extensive range of settlement products. Since Read more…
Throughout 2019, and in early 2020, Corporate Occupation spotted lots of Israeli produce in Morrisons. These fresh fruit and vegetables are sourced from key companies which export from Israeli settlements. Indeed, Morrisons has a history of using suppliers which source produce from settlements. In January 2013 Corporate Occupation obtained packaging Read more…
In 2009, Aldi was caught out selling grapefruit from Israeli company Carmel Agrexco, labelled as a product of Cyprus.[1] The scam led to the German supermarket publicly admitting it had misled European consumers. This may well have been a deliberate attempt to evade popular boycotts of Israeli goods in the Read more…
Waitrose has been obstinate in its stance on settlement produce and was unresponsive to the 2007 ITN and More 4 reports which led other supermarkets to label their goods more clearly. While campaigners have repeatedly tried to engage with the supermarket on the issue, the company has refused to enter Read more…
