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Scarlett Johansson, West Bank workers need a Christmas miracle! [satire]

In the wake of SodaStream’s apparent capitulation to BDS, an open appeal to ScarJo to save yet another group of West Bank workers. (Satire) Text by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org Dear ScarJo, Can I call you ScarJo? It’s been a great year for you: you had a baby, you got married, you turned 30. But I…

By +972 Magazine December 21, 2014

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How does SodaStream treat its Palestinian workers when the media isn’t looking?

According to Palestinian workers at the West Bank factory, they were provided with meager and unsuitable food at the end of a day of fasting; those who complained were fired immediately. SodaStream: ‘The termination process was done legally’ By Niv Hachlili / Ha-Makom Wednesday, July 2, was especially tense. The funerals for the three murdered Israeli teenagers,…

By +972 Magazine July 24, 2014

Scarlett Johansson. (photo: Gage Skidmore)

Scarlett Johansson isn’t naive: She prefers profits to human rights

By stating that the illegality of settlements is ‘very easily debatable’ and that there is no ‘right or wrong side,’ the actress has proven she is not naive at all – but is rather choosing money over humanitarian concerns. By default, she is enabling the occupation. In her first explicit response since the Sodastream-Oxfam controversy, actress…

By Mairav Zonszein March 16, 2014

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The cynical use of Palestinian workers in the SodaStream controversy

As a rule, Palestinians working for Israelis in the West Bank hate the settlements and the occupation. But they have to feed their families, so they swallow their pride. Supporters of the occupation have found a new set of spokesmen: the Palestinian workers at the West Bank factory owned by the Israeli company SodaStream, of…

By Larry Derfner February 3, 2014

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5 things I learned from the Scarlett Johansson/SodaStream affair

The Scarlett Johansson/Sodastream affair appears to be over. The American movie star left relief group Oxfam citing differences of opinion over boycott and will continue to represent Israeli company Sodastream, which has a factory in a West Bank settlement. The Israeli media declared victory with the weekend papers cheering Johansson’s decision to quit Oxfam. “Scarlett for…

By Noam Sheizaf February 2, 2014

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Scarlett Johansson’s naive SodaStream defense

American actress Scarlett Johansson has become the center of controversy following the announcement that she is the new face of SodaStream, an Israeli company with a large factory in the West Bank. SodaStream produces domestic carbonation machines for making sodas at home, and has a large factory in the Mishor Adumim industrial zone, located inside…

By Mairav Zonszein January 25, 2014