A London-based “business and human-rights” organization recently claimed that while IKEA stores in Israel facilitate the delivery of products to residents of “illegal settlements,” they refuse service to Palestinian population centers in the “occupied West Bank.” According to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, IKEA “attempts to evade responsibility for this blatant discrimination and normalization of an illegal situation.
The company simply states that its local franchisee is responsible for local management decisions related to the IKEA stores in Israel. IKEA has been informed several times that facilitation of such transport services boils down to complicity with Israel’s settlement colony enterprise.” Last month, anti-Israel activists reported that IKEA refused delivering a product to a Bethlehem-area Palestinian village because it was too dangerous.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center)
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Hmmm, I wonder why someone would be afraid to go into a town full of rock-throwing, gun-toting, West-hating Arabs! This utter discrimination blows my mind. And how dare they deliver products to Israeli settlers who want nothing more than to live their lives in peace??
Palestinians should really know this by now – if they want to be treated like normal people, let them first act like normal people, barbaric brutes!
“…because it was too dangerous”
Makes sense to me. Not sure what the crime is in protecting yourself.
Funny thing is, the delivery guys are probably arabs.
lol
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