"It is important to pressure a country economically when they continue to break international law, oppress people, create an apartheid system": Gael Murphy
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:37:59 GMT
US campaigners are trying to persuade and urge investors,
vendors, merchants and consumers to boycott Israeli products
and services.
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Members of the national Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
(BDS) movement say since Israel's three-week long war on
Gaza at the turn of the year, more Americans are skeptical
about purchasing Israeli products.
The BDS, launching a massive emailing campaign this holiday
season, has provided a list containing a number of American
brands for consumers to avoid due to their manufacturers'
financial ties with Israel.
"It is important to pressure a country economically when
they continue to break international law, oppress people,
create an apartheid system," Gael Murphy, the co-founder of
antiwar movement CODE PINK told Press TV.
CODE PINK is also engaged in the national BDS movement,
targeting the Ahava cosmetics company for producing its
cosmetics from natural resources excavated from the occupied
West Bank.
"Going to stores that are selling these products and educate
the customers who come in [would help our cause]. Don't buy
Ahava, it's a stolen beauty, it's a stolen product, it
belongs to the Palestinian people, the Israelis are stealing
it, and it should be illegal," Murphy added.
BDS activists and organizations in the United States are
targeting Americans chains like Victoria's Secret because
some of their products are produced using fabrics
manufactured by Delta Galil Textile, an Israeli company.
"Politically people are beginning to connect their
pocketbooks to the war machine. And if we have a choice
about buying product A or buying product B�if product A is
directly tied to a military apartheid regime that is defying
international law hour by hour, people are going to think
twice", journalist Nora Barrow-Freidman told Press TV.
Other companies targeted by the BDS campaigners include
Motorola, AT and T, L'Oreal, Calvin Klein, JC Penny, Estee
Lauder, Intel, Gap, and Sara Lee.
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