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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Thanks, Lee, for this information. I had no idea that hummus from Sabra
was partially owned by an Israeli corporation. I happen to love Sabra hummus,
but I will never buy it again. Unbelievable! I swear do we have to do a company
background check on EVERYTHING before we purchase it?! I already spend enough
time reading the ingredients labels on stuff. If I have to do a company
background check, too, it’s likely I’ll never have time to eat
anything that comes in a package.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Lee Loe
[mailto:leeloe@igc.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 06, 2010
8:08 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'PAA Discussion List'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [PAA-Discuss] FW:
[ufpj-activist] Philly BDS Continues Boycott ofApartheid Hummus</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Woops. we need to tell Costco. Lee</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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ufpj-activist-bounces+leeloe=igc.org@lists.mayfirst.org
[mailto:ufpj-activist-bounces+leeloe=igc.org@lists.mayfirst.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Matthew Graber<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 06, 2010
7:49 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
ufpj-activist@lists.mayfirst.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [ufpj-activist] Philly
BDS Continues Boycott of Apartheid Hummus</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>For Immediate
Release Contact:
Nathaniel Miller (610) 209-1447/ <a href="mailto:phillybds@gmail.com"
target="_blank"><font color="#196b7b"><span style='color:#196B7B'>phillybds@gmail.com</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> Photos: <a
href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/phillybds" target="_blank"><font
color="#196b7b"><span style='color:#196B7B'>http://www.flickr.com/groups/phillybds</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Community Members Urge Boycott of
Apartheid Hummus</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Philadelphia</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, <st1:State w:st="on">PA</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> 12/5/2010. Members of
Philly BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) staged a weekend
“Mime-In” at the Fresh Grocer supermarket’s flagship store at
40th and Walnut Streets in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:City>
on Saturday. The action was the latest public demonstration in a
growing international campaign to boycott Sabra and Tribe hummus brands because
of their owners’ support for human rights abuses in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>.
Two mimes stood outside with a banner urging patrons not to “be silent
about Israeli apartheid” while other members shopped inside wearing
duct-tape over their mouths and placards that also called on shoppers not to be
silent.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Most shoppers reacted to the caravan with curiosity, and some expressed
strong support of the boycott. After one activist was seen
photographing the caravan inside the store, security personnel detained him for
over an hour and threatened to have him arrested unless he destroyed the photos
on his camera. He was released and his camera returned to him only after a call
to the Fresh Grocer corporate offices. Though police were summoned, no
arrests were made.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Saturday’s “Mime-In” is the latest public action of a
growing national movement to boycott Sabra and Tribe. Six weeks ago in the same
<st1:place w:st="on">West Philadelphia</st1:place> store, Philly BDS staged a
flash dance to a Lady Gaga hit and sang lyrics urging shoppers to support the
boycott. The video of that action, which to date has been viewed
over 34,000 times on YouTube, sparked a rapid expansion of interest in the
hummus boycott, particularly on college and university campuses in the United
States. Students at Princeton and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">DePaul</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Universities</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
have recently initiated calls for boycott of Sabra on their campuses, and
groups at several other campuses are considering doing so. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Sabra Hummus is jointly owned by Pepsico and by the Strauss Group, an
Israeli corporation that has proudly supported a unit of the Israeli military,
known as the Golani Brigade, which is known as particularly brutal toward
Palestinians. The Golani Brigade has been cited for numerous human
rights violations since 1948, including <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>'s
2008-2009 assault on <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gaza</st1:place></st1:City>
that killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, most of whom were unarmed civilians,
in just three weeks. The Jerusalem Post reported last month that Strauss’
support for the Golani Brigade had been deleted entirely from the
English-language portion of its website in response to pressure from the Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, though the Hebrew portion of the site
remained unchanged. The Strauss Group has since modified their
English-language website to reassert the company’s support for the Golani
Brigade.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>In addition to Sabra Hummus, the boycott also targets Tribe Hummus,
which is owned by the Osem Group, a key corporate supporter of the Jewish
National Fund. Because by Israeli law all land owned or administered
by the JNF is reserved for the exclusive use of “the Jewish people in
perpetuity,” the JNF has played a key role in the
“judaization” of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>
and the ethnic cleansing of its indigenous people.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>In 2005, Palestinian civil society representatives issued a call for a
global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel until Israel
complies with international law by ending its occupation of Palestine lands,
dismantling the “separation barrier” in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, granting full and equal rights to Palestinian citizens of Israel,
and recognizing the right of exiled Palestinians to return to their
country. Organized along the lines of the Anti-Apartheid movement
against <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region>, the
BDS movement has burgeoned globally over the past five years, with hundreds of
separate campaigns targeting <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
economic, academic, and cultural institutions.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Philly BDS is a creative partnership working for human rights in
Israel/Palestine. We support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign
called for by Palestinian civil society in 2005.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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