Report from the Galway Campaign Boycotting Israeli Goods

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Monday October 01, 2007 18:16

by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

“Delicious, nutritious and guilt free”

Last Saturday week, on account of its unethical selling of Israeli manufactured goods, mainly Keter garden plastic sheds, storage containers, etc, 9 Galway IPSC activists picketed the Atlantic Homecare DIY store on the east side of the city. Last Saturday, switching tactics, we did a gruelling 8 hour slog outside Lynch's castle in Shop street gathering signatures for our "Boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds" petition and urging people who stopped at our stall to also ...

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boycott Dunnes, Tesco, M&S, Supervalu, Argos, B&Q, Woodies and all business whores who aid and abet the economy of vicious, rogue state Israel or at least let their displeasure be known to the store managers of these establishments.

Western governments have failed to take any action to stop corporate involvement in the occupation of Palestine, even though they have an obligation to do so under the Fourth Geneva Convention, instead, the blind eye is employed to full cynical advantage with the result that in Ireland, organic and fresh potatoes are often of Israeli origin as are almost all fresh herbs and with Tesco openly stocking items which are known to come from Israeli illegal settlements, such as snacks from Beigel & Beigel, which operates out of the West Bank settlement of Barkan and markets its products as “delicious, nutritious and guilt free” and Yarden wine from the Golan Heights Winery marketed as ‘Wine of Israel’ and so it goes, western, political, business and media criminal hypocrisy; “Delicious, nutritious and guilt free”".

Activists from NUIG Palestine Solidarity Society, Sinn Fein and well-wishers