The Jordan Valley is the breadbasket of the West Bank. Israeli colonists in the Jordan Valley are farming dates, herbs, fresh fruit and vegetables in settlements on an industrial scale. The majority of these products are exported outside of Palestine/Israel. Israeli export companies are misleading consumers, labelling fresh produce as […]
Corporate Occupation has completed its latest research, looking at which companies manufactured the construction equipment used to demolish Palestinian homes and property in 2019. We have analysed each incident in 2019 (such as a house demolition, the razing of a field, or the breaking of water pipes) and we have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The UK’s largest retailer has a shameful history when it comes to stocking produce grown in the illegal West Bank settlements. The company continues to sell Israeli produce, despite the demands of BDS campaigners. In 2007, UK activists entered the agricultural settlement of Tomer in the occupied Jordan Valley and […]