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Working for Shamir Salads in Barkan industrial zone


Factories in Barkan Industrial Zone


The Barkan industrial zone, part of the Ariel settlement block, was founded in 1982 and is the second largest industrial zone in the West Bank. As all industrial zones connected to settlements, businesses operating there receive generous tax reductions from the Israeli government. During the last few years Barkan has been making the BDS headlines through campaigns against companies such as Mul-T-Lock (Assa Abloy) and Beigel and Beigel. One company located in Barkan is the Israeli owned kosher food distributor Shamir Salads (51% owned by Willi-Food) who, according to their web-site, export their produce to Russia, the UK, Holland, Denmark, France, Ukraine, Canada and the US. Specialising in ready made salads and various houmous and aubergine dips, they also service “several food distribution routes for the Israeli Defence Forces”. Shamir Salads have been exposed as deliberately mislabelling their settlement produce, with the latest evidence being produced by Gush Shalom, an Israeli group calling for a boycott of Israel’s settlements, in March, when they found Shamir Salads products in the Netherlands labelled as Israeli despite being made in their Barkan facility (see http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/press_releases/1269703726/ ).
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By shoalcollective, ago
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Apartheid in the Fields: From Occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets (2020 Update), Part 7.5: Morrisons

Throughout 2019, and in early 2020, Corporate Occupation spotted lots of Israeli produce in Morrisons. These fresh fruit and vegetables are sourced from key companies which export from Israeli settlements. Indeed, Morrisons has a history of using suppliers which source produce from settlements. In January 2013 Corporate Occupation obtained packaging […]

By eliza, ago