SodaStream

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Jewish Standard

Despite Leaving Territories, Israeli SodaStream Targeted by BDS

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The Boycott Israel’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions) efforts continue to advance on campuses and in Europe.

It’s not certain, though, that this video will contribute much positively to that momentum.

What’s interesting is that SodaStream, in addition to promoting coexistence when its factories were in the West Bank, has now moved all of its facilities into pre-1967 Israel – only to be targeted by the BDS movement.

This will not be lost on other Israeli companies as they decide how to proceed with locating their production facilities.

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Press Release

New Yorkers March on Broadway for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Against Israel

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March 8, New York, NY— On a sunny day, 100 New Yorkers marched through crowds of shoppers on Broadway in lower Manhattan today, chanting, singing and carrying signs calling for a boycott of Israel. The protesters stopped to sing boycott songs at Ricky’s, Best Buy, Crate and Barrel and Staples, stores that sell the Israeli settlement products Ahava and SodaStream, and at Israeli-owned businesses Aroma Espresso Bar and Max Brenner, both of which have ties to Israel's military occupation. 

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Event

BDS on Broadway: An Anti-Apartheid Musical Walking Tour

Join Adalah-NY and friends for a walking tour of boycottable businesses and products sold here in NYC. With anti-apartheid songs and chants, plus big sounds from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, we'll be bringing BDS to Broadway for the tenth annual Israeli Apartheid Week. 

1:45 - Meet up at north side of Houston, between Wooster & Greene Sts. (across from Aroma Cafe, our first stop)
2:00 (sharp!) - March begins

**In the case of severe rain/snow, please check this page or the Facebook event page the morning of 3/8. Notice of rescheduling will be posted by 9 am. Rain/snow date: 3/15.**

Endorsed by: Brooklyn For Peace, Codepink - NYC, International Socialist Organization, Jews Say No!, Jewish Voice for Peace - New York, Jewish Voice for Peace – Westchester, New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership (NYACT), Park Slope Food Coop Members for BDS, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brooklyn College, SJP at City College, SJP at College of Staten Island, SJP at Columbia, SJP at Drew University, SJP at Hunter College, SJP at John Jay, SJP at Rutgers University – Newark, WESPAC, Women in Black - Union Square. 

For Facebook event page, click here. Please share with your friends and networks!

For a full listing of Israeli Apartheid Week events in the greater NYC area, click here.

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Press Coverage

New York Magazine

SodaStream: Guilt-Free Seltzer or Blood Bubbles?

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This wasn’t the first objection I'd encountered to SodaStream, which turns a bottle of tap water into sparkling with three pumps of a recyclable carbon dioxide cartridge. SodaStream is an Israeli company with a manufacturing plant in occupied territory in the West Bank, a fact that enrages a politically informed, far-left segment of the liberal-yuppie demographic the product is marketed to. By bringing environmental foodie-ism into conflict with humanitarianism, SodaStream has turned the most inoffensive of soft drinks — Sustainable! Sugar-free!

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Press Coverage

Voice of Palestine

Hannah Mermelstein on Adalah-NY and its BDS Work (audio)

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This week Voice of Palestine interviews Hannah Mermelstein, a school librarian and Palestine solidarity activist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is an active member of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel and has led more than 25 delegations to Palestine. We talk with Hannah about Adalah’s boycott work, the campaign against Sodasteam, and the importance and successes of the BDS movement.

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