SodaStream accuses Oxfam of funding BDS
“Unsurprisingly, Oxfam has joined the BDS in this movement [to close down the West Bank factory],” SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum said. “I’m saying ‘unsurprisingly’ because we found out that some of the Oxfam branches have been donating funds to the BDS, and this money is used to demonize and attack Israel.”
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Birnbaum spoke out Sunday against Oxfam after the Israeli nonprofit group NGO Monitor posted information on its website claiming that in 2013, the charity’s Dutch affiliate Oxfam Novib had transferred NIS 406,300 to the Coalition of Women for Peace, which was involved in the BDS campaign against Israel.Oxfam claims that they 'only support' BDS - they don't fund it. However they don't deny that their Dutch affiliate funds the Coalition of Women for 'peace' which is a participant in the BDS campaign.
Oxfam immediately responded, denying the claim.
“We do not support BDS. We do not fund BDS,” Oxfam International’s head of media Matt Grainger said, though “we do fund lots of civil society organizations and lots of Palestinian civil society organizations.”Yeah.... Right....
Three words: Money is fungible, and if you give money to an organization whose raison d'etre is to promote BDS, you're supporting and funding BDS.
Labels: BDS, NGO Monitor, Oxfam, Scarlet Johansson, SodaStream
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:12 AM
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Isn't this clearly another instance where an NGO is used as a tool of so called 'foreign policy and international law' against the Jews? One credible response could be, Israel will move the factory when Oxfam pays off all the Arabs who work there.
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