Scottish anti-Israel students recently pressured Robert Gordon University to stop a contract renewal with Eden Springs. The pro-Arab campaign alleges that the major Israeli water company exploits “the people of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights who’ve both spent so many years under illegal Israeli occupation, oppression and apartheid.
“The initiative has been part of a UK-wide measure targeting those who “profit from stolen water, and can’t even uphold international law.” Eden Springs is bottled at the Golan Heights, a land liberated by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War.
According to the BDS movement, the fact Eden Springs extracts water from the “occupied” Golan Heights makes the act a “war crime” under the Geneva Conventions, and other humanitarian laws. Scotland is the UK base for Eden Springs. Previously, the company suffered contract cancellations by a number of trade unions, town councils and even a major music festival. One pro-Palestinian activist stressed: “We hope [that] by continuing the momentum against Eden Springs we are helping underline Scottish civil society will not accept a pro-Israeli Scottish government.”
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Morons! Tell them to throw away their cell phones and computers and not to need cardiac stents because they were all invented in Israel. Btw, I hope they choke on their haggis.
Right – let’s return the Golan to Assad to end the boycott – they would never boycott a government that gasses, tortures, and exterminates its people.
I guess the company will have to layoff some of the arabs who work there due to lost revenue, but have no fear they can cross the golan and find mercenary work in syria
Hey let’s all boycott scotch! No?
No. 4: Your idea deserves serious consideration. The fundamentalist Christians of Kentucky and Tennessee, and their fellow Kentuckians and Tennesseeans who make whiskeys that rival the Scots, deserve our support.
And remember, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is always reliably kosher.