As ‘Trading Away Peace’ – a report … SodaStream to close illegal settlement factory in response to growing boycott campaign, BDSMovement.net, October 30, 2014; Israeli Firm Target of Boycott, to shut West Bank plant, New York Times, October 30, 2014; Why SodaStream will disengage from the West Bank, The Atlantic, October 29, 2014; SodaStream is Shutting Down its West Bank Factory, Slate News, October 29, 2014 Read more about SodaStream admits bowing to boycott pressure . You may or may not have heard that the company is based in an illegal settlement in violation of international law. The decision followed international condemnation of the country’s decision to roll out strict laws making anal sex, adultery and rape punishable by stoning to death. 2019 MAY: Brunei announced that it would not impose the death penalty for those convicted of having annal sex, following boycott calls. That is not a threat. SodaStream admits bowing to boycott pressure. There is little work.”Palestinian employees then boarded buses for the last time to be taken into the West Bank.Anas Abdul Wadud Ghayth, 25, had worked for SodaStream for four years and wiped tears from behind his glasses.“The government of Israel somehow couldn’t overcome their own bureaucracy or hard-headedness and figure out the tremendous challenge of enabling 74 good people … to continue to let them do what they have been doing.”“We were one family. The Palestinians say the local economy is hobbled by Israeli restrictions.Birnbaum said he was “still hopeful” a solution could be found and said the company might move some operations back to the West Bank.At a march to protest the government’s decision on Monday, a few hundred SodaStream employees formed a peace sign at the company’s Lehavim factory.Staff and agencies in JerusalemMahmoud Nawajaa, the BDS coordinator in the West Bank town of Ramallah, called the loss of the Palestinian jobs at SodaStream “part of the price that should be paid in the process of ending the occupation”.
End all business in Israeli settlements, says Human Rights Watch. “We became like brothers.”Critics say the campaign is not aimed at Israeli policies but at delegitimising Israel itself. The Interfaith Coalition is an organization under the umbrella of the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation. Sodastream's main production site is in Mishor Edomim, an Israeli settlement industrial park near the Ma'ale Adummim settlement in the West Bank. The land was illegally confiscated by Israeli military occupation authorities from Palestinian owners. The Coalition itself is the first major cooperative boycott effort by many different faith traditions. He called on the Palestinian Authority to do more to find jobs for the workers.Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967 in a move never recognised by the international community.Employees denied work permits after boycott, divestment and sanctions movement drove company out of West Bank and back inside IsraelSodaStream - which employs around 1,200 people - has called for that number to be increased but it would require a government decision.