Brussels Airlines has given in to pro-Palestinian pressure which was seeking to persuade the airline to stop serving Achva brand halva bars, which are manufactured in a plant in Barkan, an industrial center in the Shomron near Ariel.
A Palestinian solidarity organization began pressuring the airline, explaining the halva company operates in “occupied Palestinian territory” and as such, it should not support it be offering its passengers the Achva halva bars as it does.
An airline official explains the halva is “controversial” so the decision was made to stop offering it. Using twitter to get another message out, Brussels Airlines said “we’re an airline catering to a large international audience. It’s our responsibility to offer products that please all”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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It is our responsibility to fly and support Airlines that please all… In that case we will stop flying with Brussels Airlines.
I think the Brussels Airlines should know be considered “controversial”!
Today halva – tomorrow yarmulkes. BDS at it’s best.
Time to stop buying Belgian chocolate! See how they like it when things made in Belgium are boycotted!!
Something like this should be spread far and wid. Be’H they should no longer serve tlv binhayra b’yameynu!
This airline rose from the ashes of bankrupt Sabena. Wonder what the next incarnation will be called …
Those high-intellect PA guys are at it again…and this one ought to have quite an impact! I can see it now: Lieberman pummeling and pleading on the public media for Netanyahu to capitulate and hand over East J’lem, Chevron, hey – throw in Chsifa and the whole Shomron! They are not serving halva on the Belgian planes! It’ll snowball: the next thing is heightened security out of Brussels with mass confiscation of any attempted smuggled halva onto their flights. Or is this an ONION article? I don’t know, but I just got the munchies for some marble halva. See you guys later….
They’ve got a halva chutzpah!
Boycott Belgium
Lets buy a lot of these Halva Bars before we travel with this airline, and offer it to all their staff and to other travelers. Let them Platz.