Somerfield sells both Israeli goods and settlement goods in its stores. Apax Partners, an investment company with subsidiaries in Israel and which advises funds holding shares in Israeli settlement companies Tnuva, Agrexco Agricultural Export Company and Field Produce Ltd, has a majority of shares in Somerfield. It seems that because of the takeover by the consortium dominated by Apax Partners in December , Somerfield rescinded its commitment to the Ethical Trading Initiative.
However, as of December , Somerfield is in the process of being taken over by the Cooperative Group. It remains to be seen whether Somerfield, under new ownership, will take a similar stance to the Co-op against the sale of Israeli settlement produce. Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign — www. Islamic Human Rights Commission — www. Howard Shultz, the chairman of Starbucks, is claimed to be an active Zionist. The Fund of Aish HaTorah is a staunchly pro-Israel organisation promoting religious and racial cohesion and pride.
The Delek. Group is one of the largest investment groups based in Israel. According to isrelate. Even though Starbucks has. The BG Group plc, the former owner of the British Gas brand in the UK, which is now owned by Centrica, was granted oil and gas exploration rights offshore the Gaza Strip in a year agreement signed in November with the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.
The exploration licence covers the entire marine area offshore Gaza, which is contiguous with several Israeli offshore gas facilities.
The agreement also includes field development and the construction of a gas pipeline. Following acquisition of over 1, square kilometres of 3D seismic data, BG drilled two wells in Gaza Marine-1 and Gaza Marine-2 , with gas reserves estimated to be around 1.
However, pressure from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair led the company to reopen earlier failed negotiations with Israel for a pipeline development that would land the gas at Ashkelon, a southern Israeli city with a petroleum refinery. Tel Aviv, however, had no intention of sharing the revenues with Palestine. It should also be noted that, in September , an Egyptian high court overruled a controversial year deal on Egyptian gas exports to Israel see here.
Media reports, however, reveal that negotiations between BG and Israeli officials have, in fact, been renewed since June see globes. The decision to speed up negotiations with the BG Group coincided with the planning of the invasion of Gaza initiated in June see here. In December , BG plc completed a financial restructuring which resulted in the creation of a new parent company, the BG Group plc.
See also this timeline by David K. For more background, see this Electronic Intifada article. Last month Corporate Watch looked at the private companies in the arms trade, agricultural produce, banks and media sectors that have been targeted by Palestine solidarity protesters and campaigns see Part 1 here.
The Guardian reported in that the company stocked an extensive range of settlement products. However, we made a policy decision sometime ago to cease all purchases from this area. However, our UK suppliers do buy raw material dates from the organisation Hadiklaim on our behalf. The contract explicitly prohibits purchase from Palestinian Territories and Hadiklaim source the dates from elsewhere within Israel to satisfy our requirements. Traceability systems are in place to confirm the source of the dates.
Pickets have been held and store signs and billboards subvertised. In Manchester, three pickets were held in January in response to the bombing of Gaza. Weekly demonstrations have been held in Newcastle and in London. Vegetables Sweet potatoes, potatoes Maris Piper, Desiree, Jacket, Marfona, King Edward , crunchy sweet red peppers, miniature potatoes, organic new potatoes. Thanks for the information. Sieff had supported Zionism since meeting Chaim Weizmann in Together with Weizmann, Marks and Sieff helped set in motion the train of events that culminated in the Balfour Declaration of These firm bonds to the Zionist regime, based on the fundamental objective of aiding the economic development of Israel Lord Marcus Sieff , have continued unimpeded into recent times.
Other reports have given even higher figures. That figure includes products produced in Jordan and exported via Israel.
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