The Palestinian people are experiencing their fortieth year of military occupation. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so that ‘normal’ life is impossible.
Israel operates an entrenched system of racial Apartheid against its own non-Jewish inhabitants and has been illegally occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights since 1967. It has sought to further annex these lands and has systematically transferred its own civilian population into these occupied territories in contravention of international law. Israel continues to build the illegal Apartheid wall, annexing vast swathes of Palestinian land in the West Bank and creating Palestinian ghettos, despite the ruling of the International Court of Justice that it is illegal. Source
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Many of these companies support and give aid to the illegal settlements established on stolen Palestinian Land. The Israeli Settlements are been declared illegal by the United Nations Security Council , U.N. General Assembly and the World community. The Israeli Government uses equipment from Caterpillar to demolish Palestinian homes and bulldoze Palestinian Agriculture land.
Israel ’s country prefix is ‘729′ on bar codes. You will typically only see it on imported foods and not the products listed below because many of the companies below are American companies that financially support Israel .
THE LIST…
1. The Chairman and CEO of STARBUCKS, Howard Schultz, is an active Zionist.
In 1998 he was honored by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah with ‘The Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award’ for his services to the Zionist state in ‘playing a key role in promoting close alliance between the United States and Israel. At a time when other businesses were desperately pulling out of Israel, Starbucks decided to help Israel ’s floundering economy and invest in Israel . It has been revealed that Starbucks still continues to support Israel by sponsoring fund raisers for Israel .
2. THE LIMITED STORES, Express, Lerner New York, VICTORIA'S SECRET and BATH & BODY WORKS:
The Limited, Inc. was founded by Leslie H. Wexner in 1963 in
& amp;nb sp;Columbus, Ohio.
2,800 stores. Includes: THE LIMITED STORES, Express, Lerner New
York , VICTORIASSECRET and BATH & BODY WORKS, and employs over
115,000 people.
Its founder, president and CEO Les Wexner is a Zionist. He is on
the board of directors of Emet, the Pro-Israel Media ‘War Room’ whose
function is to ensure that all media in the USstays biased in
favor of Israel .
In 1984, Les Wexner who is one of the world’s 200 wealthiest people
created the Wexner Foundation. Its missio n state ment is
’strengthening Jewish Leadership in North America and Israel .’
One of the programs the Foundation runs is the Wexner Israel
Fellowship Program which annually brings up to ten Israeli
have participated thus far.
The Wexner Foundation sponsors ‘Birthright Israel ‘ - a program that
pays for young American Jews to take free indoctrination trips to
Israel.
It is also a long-standing supporter of Hillel - the bastion of
Zionism on campus.
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3. THE HOME DEPOT: Its founder and co-chairman of the Board is an
active Zionist. He created the board of directors of Emet, the
Pro-Israel Media ‘War Room’ whose function is to ensure that all
media in the USstays biased in favor of Israel .
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4. DISNEY: Walt Disneys Millennium exhibition at the Epcot
Centre in Floridadepicts Jerusalemas the capital of Israel . Of the 8
million dollars it cost to set up the exhibition, Israel
contributed 1.8 million and worked with Disney to develop its content.
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5. AOL/TIME WARNER: AOL ALLOCATES 30% OF ITS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO IN ISRAEL . (Can you believe it?!)
The buy up of Israeli company Mirabilis, creators of ICQ (internet
chat program), for $287m in 1998 forms part of AOLs investment
in Israel .
In 1998, Mr. Ted Leonsis, CEO of AOL studios (a business unit of
AOL) received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the ‘State
of Israel ‘ in recognition of those individuals and organizations that through their investments and trade relationships have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy.
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6. COCA COLA: From 1966 onward Coca-Cola has been a staunch
supporter of Israel .
In 1997 the Government of IsraelEconomic Missionhonored Coca-Cola at the IsraelTrade Award Dinner for its continued support of
Israelfor the last 30 years and for refusing ro abide by the Arab League boycott of Israel .
In contrast Pepsi abided by the Arab League boycott of Israel
which ended in May 1991, after 1992 Pepsi is also trading in
Israel.
In 2001 the Coca-Cola Wor l d Headquarters hosted and was the main
sponsor of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Awards Gala
It has been revealed that Coca-Cola Israelsponsors training
programs for its workers on subjects including the Israeli-Arab
conflict. The course content is created by a company funded by the
Jewish Agency and the Israeli government.
In July 2002, it has been announced that Coca-Cola is to build a
new plant at Kiryat Gat.
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7. ESTEE LAUDER: Estee Lauder’s ch airman, Ronald Lauder, also one time chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is the current president of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) - Ronald Lauder is an ardent Zionist.
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8. SARAH LEE. (Includes Hanes, Playtex, Leggs, Champion). This is
also not to be con fus ed with the frozen snacks company. This is in
regard to the clothing giant.
Sara Lee owns 30% of Israel ’s leading textile company Delta Galil.
Sara Lee is the world’s largest clothing manufacturer, this opens
the worlds markets to Israel , with cloths originating in Israeland
being sold around the world under one of the many famous Sara Lee brands.
In 1998, Mr. Lucien Nessim of Sara Lee Personal Products received
the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is
the highest tribute ever awarded by the ‘State of Israel ‘ in
recognition of those individuals and organiza tion s, that through
their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to
strengthen the Israeli economy.
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9. FOX TELEVISION, FOX ENTERTAINMENT:
The News Corporation Limite is one of the world’s largest media
companies with total assets as of September 30, 2005 of
approximately; US $58 billion and total annual revenues of approximately US$18 billion. News Corporation’ s diversified global operations include the production and distribution of motion pictures and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadc astin g; the publication of newspapers, magazines and books; the production and distribution of promotional and advertising products and services; the development of digital broadcasting.
News Corporation is the world’s leading publisher of
English-language newspapers with operations worldwide. The Company publishes more than 175 different newspapers, printing more than 40 million papers a week.
Murdoch’s New Corp. invests heavily in Israel .
Murdoch News Corporation was one of three US companies that was lauded for their support of Israel at the America-Israel Friendship League Partners for Democracy Awards dinner (25th June 2001).& nbsp;Murdoch himself co-chaired the dinner.
News Corp.’s digital technology company based in Jerusalem , called NDS, has grown from 20 to 600 employees in the past decade.
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10. NESTLE: The swiss company owns 50.1% of Israeli food maker Osem
Investments. In dec 2000, it announced it will invest millions of
dollars to operate the new R&D centre in israel .
In 1998, Mr. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe on behalf of Nestle, received
the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is
the highest tribute ever awarded by the ‘State of Israel ‘ in
recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through
their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to
strengthen the Israeli economy.
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11. OVERSEAS ADVENTURE TRAVEL: Company is ba sed in M assachusettes,
is known for their many world tours and relatively cheap group
travel. The company donates money to over 50 countries in which it
operates in to help fund schools, food aid, etc. and averages
between $5,000 and $25,000 per country. However, Israelreceived a flat $1,000,000 from Overseas Adventure Travel, as it’s president is a
Zionist.
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12. IBM: IBM invests heavily in Israel . IBM senior vice-president
and general counsel, LawrenceRicciardi, who noted that his company
employs 1,700 people in Israel, said in an interview with the
Jerusalem Post, ‘This wedge of land and the huge ideals it
represents are very important to IBM.’
IBM was one of three UScompanies that was lauded at the
America-Israel Friendship League Partners for Democracy Awards
dinner (25th Ju ne 2001 ) hosted by Sharon .
In May 2002 the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce awarded IBM the
Ambassador’s Award’ in recognition of its outstanding contribution
to the development of the Israeli high-tech industry and to advancing
trade between the U.S.and Israel. IBM established operations in
1949 and was the first large American company with a wholly owned
subsidiary in Israel, introducing computers to the country.
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13. KIMBERLY-CLARK: (Huggies, Kotex, Kleenex) In 1998, Mr. Robert
P. Van der Merwe, chairman of Kimberly-Clark Europe received the
Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest
tribute ever awarded by the ‘State of Israel ‘ in recognition of
those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and
trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli
economy.
Kimberly Clark Corp owns 49.9% interest in Israeli company Hogla
(6/96) throu gh Ameri ca-Israel PaperMills $49.9m.
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14. RIVER ISLAND clothing chain, ISROTEL and IBROTEL HOTELS in
Spain and Portugal, BRITANNIA PACIFIC PROPERTIES. (This one probably
relates least to any of us) - a diversified international
investment company, with headquarters in London , England . They said to be one
of the largest real estate o wners i n the SacramentoMetropoli tan area.
It appears that the British based Lewis Trust Group is one of the
companies developing hotels in the Aqaba Region. David Lewis, the
Chairman of the company, is a prominent supporter of Israel .
Mr Lewis’s activities have included the raising of money for the
Jewish National Fund. He is also a member of the Israel-Britain
Business Council. This organization is dedicated to the development
of the ZionistState, by channelling British capital to the
occupied territories for the benefit of the Zionists and the exploitation of
the Palestinians.
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15. NOKIA: Nokia have started to invest heavily in Isr ael.
Nokia general manager Lars Wolf said in an interview with The
JerusalemPost (4 March 2001): ‘We are really focusing on Israel
from all perspectives, because we have an internal project called
‘Project Israel ‘ which means we a re looking at Israelfrom a networks
perspective, from the perspective of Nokia Ventures Organization,
and also from the perspective of NokiaResearchCenter .’
Nokia Venture Partners, a branch of Nokia Ventures Organization,
launched a new $500 million fund in December 2000 and allowed that
a ‘disproportionate’ amount of it would go into Israeli companies.
NokiaResearchCenter is on the lookout for Israeli start-ups with
which it can cooperate.
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16. TIMBERLAND: (clothing, shoes, boots, jackets, etc.)
Timberlands is a $1.1 billion footwear, apparel & accessories
company. Its President and CEO Jeffrey Swartz is an active zionist.
In a recent ’solidarity visit’ to Israel, where he made it clear he
was speaking as the CEO of Timberland, he suggested sending 100 IDF
soldiers to the USfor a week as ambassadors for Israel.
Although Timberland is a publicly traded company, his family holds
approximately 47% of the stock and has approximately 81% of the
voting power.
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17. DESERT EAGLE: Desert Eagles are the only firearms that Israel
does not buy from the USor other countries. However, many of the
parts of these firearms are imported from other countries and they
are merely assembled in Israel . Regardless, Israelprides them as
their own and it is strictly an Israeli company.
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18. CATERPILLAR: Caterpillar is a company based in Illinois that
manufactures large construction equipment such as bulldozers,
tractors, various demolition equipment and has a line of ‘tough
guy’ clothing apparel. Caterpillar happily supplies Israel with all of
its current fleet of D9 and D10 bulldozers, some of the largest
armoured bulldozers in the world. officials to Harvard for a year long MPA program.
19. INTEL: Their microchips were developed in Israel. Intel are one of the biggest supporters of Israel. Their very first development centre outside the US was opened in Haifa in 1974. Since then they have continued pouring investment in to Israel.[2] By year 2000 they employ over 4000 israelis. Exports from their Lachish-Qiryat Gat plant in israel (opened feb 99) total $ 3 million a day at peak capacity - approximately $ 1 billion a year. [1]
20.Hang Up on Motorola
In 2008, the US Campaign will bring to the attention of Motorola its complicity in Israel’s human rights violations and military occupation and call on the corporation to cease producing and selling equipment to the Israeli army to prevent its involvement in future abuses. If Motorola fails to live up to its own corporate responsibility statement, then the US Campaign will launch and coordinate a national consumer boycott of Motorola cell phones to raise awareness of its profiteering from human rights abuses and to tarnish its corporate image for doing so.
Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) have pointed out that the Intel plant at”Qiryat Gat” is built on land Israel confiscated from the Palestinian villages of Iraq al Manshiya.
