Keith Taylor MEP voices his support for the Sainsbury’s campaign

Keith Taylor, MEP for Southeast England, has voiced his strong support for the campaign to put pressure on Sainsbury’s to adhere to their own ethical trading policies and end all trade with companies operating in and exporting from the Palestinian Occupied Territory. Sainsbury’s uses suppliers that trade in products from illegal Israeli settlements. Israeli settlements are …

Israel struggling against growing boycott campaign

Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has released a report revealing that the Foreign Ministry has acknowledged its inability to face the growing boycott campaign despite resorting to all political and judicial means, which have been ineffective, especially against private companies. The report explained that the ministry has succeeded in putting pressure on some European governments to …

BHPSC raises money for Gaza projects

As part of its solidarity work for Palestine, Brighton & Hove PSC raises considerable amounts of money to support development and regeneration projects in the occupied territories. One vital source of funding is the collection tins in the Taj grocery shop in Western Road. There’s one next to every check-out till, and generous shoppers donate …

Oxfam ‘in dialogue’ with Scarlett Johansson over SodaStream endorsement

The international development organisation Oxfam is currently facing a dilemma. Since 2005, the actor Scarlett Johansson has worked with them as a ‘global ambassador’, and has reportedly helped the organisation considerably with their work. It has emerged that Johansson has recently signed up to do a similar job for SodaStream – the deeply unethical Israeli …