Mandarins are smaller and flattened at the ends, instead of being spherical like ordinary oranges. Because you are probably applying a double standard Statistically, most of my readers are in the UK or USA and our nations are the worst oppressors in human history. Jaffa oranges are sourced from a number of different countries, including Spain. As well as violating international law, commercial farming in the area deprives Palestinians of agriculturally-rich farmland and seriously limits access to water, which local people are often forced to buy by the tank at vastly inflated prices. What’s more, the provenance of settlement dates is often concealed with a “produced in Israel” label —. Boycott Israel. [3] HP recently rejected The Presbyterian Church's lobby for change, resulting in the Church divesting from HP. [5]. Now I enjoy oranges from South Africa and boycott Jaffa oranges. There were no Jaffa oranges on the streets of Gaza, not because of a Palestinian boycott, but because Israel prevents sufficient food, fuel, and medical supplies through its borders. The fizzy drinks makers are produced in Ma’ale Adumim, one of the many illegal Israeli settlements that cuts through Palestinian land, seizing resources and making the development of an independent Palestinian economy look impossible. Then, most of the 140,000 Syrians that lived in the Golan were displaced and have not been allowed to return, and today the area is home to some 20,000 settlers. Recently, Motorola announced that it would develop and produce the Israeli Army's encrypted battlefield smartphone at a cost of $100m ($50m of which will be provided by the US). [19] It has also been used in the construction of the illegal seperatation wall constructed in Israel. MSI has been engaged in a number of projects with Israel to support the Israeli Army and its occupation. The most relevant brand here is their nappies range, Pampers, which uses materials provided by Avgol. Their taste is sweet and strong. However, those Jaffa oranges labelled as originating from Israel may in fact have been sourced from illegal settlements. It has also closed the accounts of the Cordoba Foundation, again believed to be due to their work in Palestine and Gaza, as well as the accounts of the wife and daugther of Foundation's chief executive. For example, for PCs, laptops, servers, etc. For trucks, consider companies like DAF. Caterpillar has long been providing its CAT D9 bulldozer to Israel. According to its website, this winery is located in Israel’s prime … SodaStream's "First Ever Global Brand Ambassador", Scarlett Johansson was recently embroiled in a dispute with the charity Oxfam, of whom she was also a Global Ambassador. Contemplating the clash that pitted Jews against Arabs, Haim Gouri, the celebrated Israeli poet, muses that the Jaffa orange pumped up both sides. Opinion pages are filled with debate, John Kerry has warned Israel that it could be facing a delegitimization campaign “on steroids” and voices from all sides are speculating that a boycott movement against Israel could be about to break into the mainstream. “Jaffa” oranges, Greek yoghurt) Jordan River* (dates) Hardware. What does that mean? Dès 1948, les Israéliens déposeront la marque Jaffa. One Palestine Liberation Organization poster showed a masked gunman crouching under an orange tree. SodaStream is a home carbonated drinks manufacturer with 13 production factories worldwide [23]. Gaza is still under siege, unable to rebuild its devastated infrastructure. But it has said nothing of withdrawing its support for IDF troops. School Madrasa El-Omaryya, Old City, Muslim Quarter, Jerusalem by Shlomit Or [CC BY-SA 2.0]. There, illegal labor practices have been recorded on a significant scale; in 2008, 7,000 Palestinian children were found to be working on settlement date farms. Many of the companies’ fruits and vegetables — which include avocados, sweet potatoes and pomegranates — are grown and packaged in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, where 94% of land is under direct Israeli control. Près de 5 millions de caisses par an seront produites jusqu'en 1970. 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[20]. Suggest as a translation of "Jaffa orange" Copy; DeepL Translator Linguee. [29] The website further states, "fresh produce comes in daily from over 50,000 dunam of agricultural holdings across Israel," in a stark contrast to the global view that Israeli settlements are illegal and in contrast to a map on that same website that appears to show at least three orchards on illegal settlement land. Thanks to Scarlett Johansson’s recent adventure in international politics, most of us now know about Sodastream’s role in perpetuating the occupation of the West Bank. A trustee of UWT Muhammad Ahmad said: "The first time we were served notice [in 2008] was at the time of the first Gaza war. [4]. However, those Jaffa oranges labelled as originating from Israel may in fact have been sourced from illegal settlements. Title: This is a test hello there… Victoria’s Secret, however, is not the only company to buy its materials from the settlement industry:Delta Galil also supplies to companies like Walmart, Calvin Klein, Nike and Columbia, among others. Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. Among these were soap, sugar, barley, oranges, and cotton. Kimberly-Clark is a significant customer of Avgol (19% of revenue), [15, 17] a company with a factory in the Barkan Industrial Area, adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Barkan [16] in the occupied West Bank. By the end of the century, orange groves became the most lucrative capital investments in the city, and citrus became Palestine’s principal export. 9 Brands To Boycott To Hold Israel Accountable, https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.png, https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2014/02/Israel-boycott-729-made-in-Israel-150x84.jpg, Thanks to Scarlett Johansson’s recent adventure in international politics, most of us now know about Sodastream’s role in perpetuating the occupation of the West Bank. Although the Golan Heights Winery is one of Israel’s biggest exporters, it’s far from the only producer of settlement wine. Alternatives: There are a range of alternatives available to the products produced by Procter & Gamble in most retailers (you will probably save quite a bit of money too!). If governments refuse to act, it is we the people who need to take action. , one of the biggest settlement producers, markets its products under the brand names Jordan River, Jordan River Bio-Tops and King Solomon. Much of Eden Springs’ bottled water — which is widely marketed to universities, local authorities and other institutions — comes from the Salukia spring in the Golan Heights.Israel’s occupation of the Golan has been condemned by the U.N., and, as Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem reminds us, international law only gives occupiers a limited right to use the water resources of occupied territory. The fizzy drinks makers are produced in Ma’ale Adumim, one of the many illegal Israeli settlements that cuts through Palestinian land, seizing resources and making the development of an independent Palestinian economy look impossible. America’s largest brand of lingerie gets its textiles from Delta Galil Industries, a company with a warehouse in the Barkan Industrial Zone, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Then, there is the issue of companies whose goods come from several places. Alternatives: There are plenty of footwear brands available to consumers beyond Caterpillar. Despite that, settlers in the Golan can. But what would that actually mean in supermarkets and shopping baskets? (Jaffa oranges are no longer, though, a major Israeli export, and are grown in Spain, South Africa, and elsewhere.) Below you will find a list of companies and individuals who provide material investment and/or support to the terrorist state of Israel. Oxfam is opposed to all trade from Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law ..." [26] It was recently reported that SodaStream was closing it's main UK store in Brighton and that the retailer, John Lewis, was also delisting its products [27]. Firstly, for a long time these Jaffa brand oranges were partly cultivated on illegally acquired lands. Victoria’s Secret is targeted by BDS campaigners because of where the brand sources its fabrics. Jaffa oranges sold in European supermarkets labeled "Made in Israel" may have been grown and packaged in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, according to a report from the Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) movement, an international coalition of Palestinian NGOs and activists. Settlements like these destroy the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and are widely considered to be the biggest obstacle to the success of the peace process. Businesses that require vehicles for construction are encouraged to seek alternatives such as Shantui or Komatsu. HP established HP Labs Israel in 1994 on the campus of the Israel Institute of Technology, providing investment into Israel. We appeal, similarly, in the spirit of humanity to everyone, Muslim or not. NAZIS REPORT DEAL WITH PALESTINE; Germans Tell of Agreement for Barter of Their Products for Jaffa Oranges. Look up words and phrases in comprehensive, reliable bilingual dictionaries and search through billions of online translations. Lately, the Jaffa orange has shown up in propaganda posters calling for an boycott of Israeli goods. Strauss, apparently, provided the lunches, exclaiming on its website that it provides “food products” for missions and “personal care packages for each soldier.” After U.S. BDS groups targeted Sabra in 2010, Strauss removed the wording from its Corporate Social Responsibility pages. Translate texts with the world's best machine translation technology, developed by the creators of Linguee. Open menu. The oranges were first developed by Palestinian farmers in the mid-19th century and the variety takes its name from the city where the oranges were first produced for export. The $172 million annual orange export trade is one of the country's major sources of foreign exchange. Alternatives: Do yourself a favour and give up fizzy drinks entirely for healthier alternatives or water even! Between 1850 and 1880, the orange-grove area of Jaffa quadrupled. What’s more, the provenance of settlement dates is often concealed with a “produced in Israel” label — Hadiklaim, one of the biggest settlement producers, markets its products under the brand names Jordan River, Jordan River Bio-Tops and King Solomon. Photo: Wikipedia. One of the primary suppliers of Jaffa oranges is Mehadrin, a company delisted by Co-op in 2012 as they were "known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements." Similar to the boycott of Outspan oranges during apartheid, organisations like BDS have urged customers not to buy Jaffa oranges as a way of weakening Israel’s economy and demonstrating their commitment to a free Palestine. Stanley Black & Decker (e.g. For Israel, the rash of ruined oranges constituted both a new kind of Palestinian attack and a potential economic disaster. Like HP, Caterpillar has recently lost funding from The Presbyterian Church. « L'Israël des oranges, c'est un Israël sans Arabes », résume un historien. The Costcutter supermarket at the University of York has initiated a boycott of Israeli goods at the behest of the newly formed Palestinian Solidarity Society (PSS). But today, over half the global harvest of medjool dates is produced by Israel, often on settlements in Palestinian land and especially in the Jordan Valley. A street song, simple and homey and setting the tone for how the oranges and Jaffa and Jewish-Arab-Christian integration started out. In June 2007, the New England Conference (a group of United Methodist Churches with over 90,000 members) recommended divestment from Volvo Group. The United Church of Canada (which seems to be more interested in social justice than in God) is engaged in one of its periodic wrangles over Israel. [2] HP also has (and has had) a number of contracts with the Israeli government, including the Israeli Navy. The company makes about $150 million a year from the sale of these miraculous products while Palestinians continue to be effectively barred from utilizing the resources of the Dead Sea. Mehadrin* (e.g. ... Medjool Dates, dragon fruit, pomegranates, avocados, grapefruit, Persimmon Sharon fruit, Sharon ‘Triumph’ fruit, Jaffa oranges, Shamouti oranges. Jaffa Oranges Brands like Carmel Agrexco and Mehadrin , which export the famous Jaffa brand of oranges, make big profits from farming on Palestine’s land. Alternatives: Jaffa oranges are also imported into Europe and the US from a number of other countries including Spain. Don't purchase products from Israel? Alternatives: The IT industry is awash with brands who provide suitable altenatives. Golani troops were on the front line in Operation Cast Lead, the 2008-9 assault on Gaza which killed some 1,400 Palestinians. Alternatives: Businesses that require vehicles for construction are encouraged to seek alternatives such as Shantui or Komatsu. These organizations may be forced to pay attention to the boycott very soon — and they may not be the ones you’d expect. Les oranges de Jaffa devraient en particulier être boycottées pour les motifs suivants. The corporation has “adopted” the Golani Brigade, an “elite unit” of the Israeli Army with a reputation for bad behavior that ranges “from revolts against commanders to abuse of Palestinians,” according to Haaretz. The location gives Ahava privileged access to the minerals and mud of the Dead Sea, which form the big-selling ingredient in their face masks, body scrubs and moisturisers. One such chapter is BDS Slovenia, who has carried out a campaign to boycott oranges that are produced in Jaffa on land that has been illegally occupied. These include the account of Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT), an international relief and development charity, who was collecting significant funds for its efforts in Gaza. [9]. According to its website, this winery is located in Israel’s prime location for world-class vineyards. Hewlett Packard’s slogan is a predictably Silicon Valley coinage: “If you’re going to do something, make it matter.” For Palestinians, however, some of the things HP does matter more than others. What they sell: As well as industrial construction (destruction) vehicles and technology, Caterpillar trade to consumers as CAT, selling men and women's footwear. What they sell: P&G sell household products under a number of different brands, including Ariel, Braun, Fairy, Gillette, Oral-B, Pampers, etc. [32]. The BDS campaign covers all Israeli products: It’s a broad tactic aimed to pressure the state itself to change. To serve notice to a charity helping people on the ground [in Gaza], to choose that timing, it beggars belief." The most relevant brand here is their nappies range, Huggies, which uses materials provided by Avgol. The Mehadrin Group, Israel’s single largest fruit exporter (whose brands include Jaffa oranges), is headquartered in Israel proper, and most of the goods it sells are not from settlements; but it does own a few facilities in the territories. It is practising collective punishment upon the Palestinian people.