Beter ten halve gekeerd dan ten hele gedwaald
Het is beter om een fout tijdig goed te maken dan op de ingeslagen weg door te gaan.
BETER TEN HALVE GEKEERD DAN TEN HELE GEDWAALD
https://www.ensie.nl/betekenis/beter-ten-halve-gekeerd-dan-ten-hele-gedwaald
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DOC.P
OPEN BRIEF AAN DIRK
8 FEBRUARI 2017
http://www.docp.nl/open-brief-aan-dirk/
Geachte Dirk,
Diverse klanten van uw supermarkt hebben bij ons geklaagd over de aanwezigheid van Bomaja medjoul dadels in uw supermarkt. De dadels zijn niet voorzien van herkomstaanduiding, en volgens de barcode zou de herkomst Nederland zijn. Voor zover wij weten zijn er geen dadelplantages in Nederland. Wij menen zeker te weten dat Bomaja een merk is van het Israelische bedrijf Hadiklaim, dat dadels exporteert uit de Palestijnse bezette gebieden.
Wij verzoeken u de herkomst van de dadels correct aan te duiden, en zullen het ontbreken van herkomstaanduiding melden bij het Ministerie van Economische zaken en de NVWA. Wij willen u graag informatie geven over de afkomst van uw dadels en andere dadels: https://planteenolijfboom.nl/actueel/2016/6/2/respecteert-jouw-dadel-mensenrechten.
Hadiklaim verkoopt 65 procent van alle Israëlische dadels, en is een Israëlische coöperatie waar plantages in nederzettingen in de Jordaanvallei onderdeel van zijn. De merknamen zijn: * Bomaja, Jordan River, King Solomon, Tamara Barhi Dates, Desert Diamond, Rapunzel, Shams en Delilah. Ze verkopen ook dadels aan supermarkten die ze vervolgens onder hun eigen merknaam verkopen.
Wij willen u dringend verzoeken om de herkomst van de dadels op uw verpakking te vermelden zodat mensen een weloverwogen keuze zouden kunnen maken.
Klanten zijn op de hoogte dat wij u aanspreken op de afkomst en zullen controleren of u hier gehoor aan geeft. Wij zullen zelf ook uw winkels bezoeken en controleren of u aan ons verzoek hebt voldaan.
Op internet zullen wij een voorbeeldbrief plaatsen die burgers naar u kunnen sturen met het verzoek om labeling.
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Benji de Levie, voorzitter docP
EINDE BRIEF AAN DIRK VAN DEN BROEK
”DocP stelt dat Nederland helemaal geen dadels produceert en dat Bomaja een merknaam is van het Israëlische bedrijf Hadiklaim, waarvan is vastgesteld dat het dadels verhandelt uit illegale Israëlische nederzettingen in bezet Palestina. DocP baseert zich mede op documentatie van Stichting Plant een Olijfboom.”
THE RIGHTS FORUM
NEDERLANDSE DADELS UIT ISRAELISCHE NEDERZETTINGEN
9 MEI 2017
https://rightsforum.org/campagnes/nederlandse-dadels-uit-israelische-nederzettingen/
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Wij hebben een onderzoek gedaan naar dadels verkocht door een aantal Nederlandse supermarkten. Helaas troffen wij weer bloeddadels aan, met name van het merk van Bomaja van Hadiklaim
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”Supermarktketen DIRK van den Broek/DekaMarkt is wat je noemt een recidivist. Reeds in 2017 hebben we actie gevoerd tegen de aanwezigheid van Bomaja dadels bij DIRK. Daarom hebben we Dirk van den Broek/DekaMarkt en de Coöperatieve Inkoop Vereniging Superunie waartoe zij en 12 andere Nederlandse supermarktketens behoren dit jaar uitgekozen voor een emailactie.”
DOC.P
STAAK DE VERKOOP VAN HADIKLAIM BLOEDDADELS!
22 APRIL 2020
https://www.docp.nl/mailactie-staak-de-verkoop-van-hadiklaim-bloeddadels/
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CIVIS MUNDI
ZWEEDSE FOTOGRAAF WINT WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2012.
MISDADEN ISRAELISCHE POLITIEK IN BEELD GEBRACHT
ASTRID ESSED
https://www.civismundi.nl/?p=artikel&aid=2024
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CIVIS MUNDI
ZWEEDSE FOTOGRAAF WINT WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2012.
MISDADEN ISRAELISCHE POLITIEK IN BEELD GEBRACHT
ASTRID ESSED
https://www.civismundi.nl/?p=artikel&aid=2024
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”Exporter of organic and non-organic dates. The biggest dates’ exporter in Israel.
Some of the company’s dates originate from the occupied Jordan Valley and Dead Sea area. Dates from the Megilot Dead Sea Regional Council – a regional council of settlements in the northern Dead Sea area – are exported solely by Hadiklaim. This regional council includes the settlements of Almog, Beit Ha’arava, Mitzpe Shalem, Kalia and Vered Yeriho. As of 2010, the company also exported dates from the settlements of Patza’el, Messua, Mehola in the Jordan Valley and from the Golan Heights.”
WHO PROFITS
HADIKLAIM-ISRAEL DATE GROWERS COOPERATIVE
https://www.whoprofits.org/company/hadiklaim-israel-date-growers-cooperative/
Exporter of organic and non-organic dates. The biggest dates’ exporter in Israel.
Some of the company’s dates originate from the occupied Jordan Valley and Dead Sea area. Dates from the Megilot Dead Sea Regional Council – a regional council of settlements in the northern Dead Sea area – are exported solely by Hadiklaim. This regional council includes the settlements of Almog, Beit Ha’arava, Mitzpe Shalem, Kalia and Vered Yeriho. As of 2010, the company also exported dates from the settlements of Patza’el, Messua, Mehola in the Jordan Valley and from the Golan Heights.
As of 2011, some of the organic dates exported by Hadiklaim to various countries in Europe were grown by Zorganika in the Hamra settlement and the Zarzir enclave.
Hadiklaim works with packing houses in Israel and the occupied territories, among them the packing houses in the Tomer, Gilgal and Yafit settlements in the Jordan Valley and in the Beit Ha’arava settlement in the Dead Sea area.
Throughout the 1930s, a Zionist settler and founder of the Kinneret kibbutz by the name of Ben-Zion Israeli travelled the Middle East to collect cuttings of palm trees. In many cases, he had to smuggle them illegally out of the countries he visited – Iraq, Persia, Egypt – as they were considered a national treasure and it was forbidden to export them.
Those smuggled cuttings have helped establish large plantations across Israeli territories. Palm groves were planted from the Red Sea in the south along the Dead Sea, and as far as the Sea of Galilee up north, which has given the Israeli date industry its nickname “the industry of the three seas”. Since Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank in 1967, it has also established date plantations in its illegal settlements in that portion of the Jordan Valley.
According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in 2017, Israel produced 136,956 tonnes of dates with an export value of $181.2m.
This industry is highly exploitative and much of its operations happen in illegal settlements, so its products must be boycotted. Approximately 40 percent of Israeli dates today are grown in illegal settlements. Because of the gruelling work involved in picking dates, Israeli settlers bring in low-paid Palestinian labourers to do the difficult work. Israeli farmers are also known to employ Palestinian children.
Date-picking in the Jordan Valley is a hazardous business. Workers have to climb high ladders and work up there for hours. They are exposed to high temperatures, which put them at risk of heatstroke, and when they get injured, they often are not afforded healthcare or compensation. Workers, including children, are forced to work long hours and fulfil quotas before they are able to go home.
Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, not only grow these palm plantations on stolen land using exploited Palestinian labour, but they also divert water resources away from Palestinian villages, leaving them struggling to get water for drinking and irrigation. Under the strain of military occupation, the native Palestinian date industry has found it difficult to compete with Israeli dates flooding the local and international markets.
There are five major Israeli date companies that export to the United States and Europe: Hadiklaim and its brands Jordan River and King Solomon, Mehadrin, Galilee Export, Carmel Agrexco and Agrifood Marketing with its brand Star Dates.
Hadiklaim, Mehandrin and Carmel Agrexco all have operations in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Hadiklaim and Carmel Agrexco have been accused of using child labour and paying Palestinian workers less than the minimum wage.
It is important to note that if you buy Medjool (Medjoul) dates in Europe or the US, there is a good chance they were grown in a settlement or from Israel proper. Unless it is from a trusted Palestinian source like Zaytoun or Yaffa, you could be eating a date that contributes to the dispossession of the Palestinian people. California dates, such as Orchid Dates and Best Fresh Produce, provide good alternative options as well.
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) initiated the first-ever nationwide boycott of dates produced in settlements during Ramadan 2012. In coalition with our chapters in New York, New Jersey, Detroit, Minnesota, Chicago, and Sacramento, as well as partners in Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, AMP answered the 2005 Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions by urging grocery store owners to remove Israeli dates from their shelves.
Since then, tens of thousands of postcards and brochures have been distributed to stores, mosques, and communities nationwide. Consumers have answered the call and the boycott is working.
According to Economic Research Service data provided by the US Department of Agriculture, Israel’s exports of dates to the US have dropped significantly since 2015. Whereas 10.7 million kilogrammes (23.6 million pounds) of Israeli dates entered the US market in 2015-2016, only 3.1 million kilogrammes (seven million pounds) entered the US market in 2017-2018. The boycott is working and it is having a detrimental effect on the Israeli date industry.
Dat meldde de Israëlische krant Haaretz dinsdag. Het dagblad baseert zich op een brief van EU-buitenlandchef Catherine Ashton aan zeven andere leden van de Europese Commissie. De woordvoerster van Ashton bevestigde dat de commissie bezig is allerlei Europees beleid jegens Israël om te zetten in richtlijnen. Brussel vindt de nederzettingen illegaal.
De etiketten moeten duidelijkheid scheppen voor consumenten en misverstanden voorkomen. Producten met het etiket ‘Israël’ moeten echt uit dat land komen en niet uit de bezette gebieden.
Misleiding
Volgens internationaal recht zijn de nederzettingen illegaal. Brussel wil voorkomen dat consumenten worden misleid door het etiket Made In Israel, dat ook op producten uit de Joodse nederzettingen staat. Producten met het label Israël moeten echt uit dat land komen en niet uit de bezette gebieden.
Nederland is een van de EU-lidstaten die al langer hamert op Europese wetgeving. Minister Frans Timmermans van Buitenlandse Zaken verdedigde in maart het kabinetsstandpunt in de Tweede Kamer. ‘De Britten en Denen gingen ons al voor. Nederland wil voorkomen dat ten onrechte ‘uit Israël’ staat op producten die niet uit Israël komen’, zei de minister toen.
Brussel zou een niet-bindende richtlijn overwegen. Mogelijk worden wel labels verplicht voor agrarische en cosmetische producten en enkele andere producten uit de nederzettingen.
GENEVA (12 February) – The UN Human Rights Office on Wednesday issued a report on business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in response to a specific request by the UN Human Rights Council, contained in a March 2016 resolution, that mandated the Office to produce a database of business enterprises involved in such activities.*
In an interim report (A/HRC/37/39) presented to the Human Rights Council in March 2018 by the then High Commissioner, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN Human Rights Office noted it had reviewed information that was publicly available, or had been received from a variety of sources, about an initial 307 companies. After further research, the total number reviewed increased to 321. Of these, a total of 206 companies were considered for further assessment.
The report released on Wednesday sets out conclusions following further communications with business entities, as well as a thorough review and assessment of all information available. It identifies 112 business entities which the UN Human Rights Office, on the basis of the information it has gathered, has reasonable grounds to conclude have been involved in one or more of the specific activities referenced in Human Rights Council resolution 31/36.
Of the 112 business entities identified in the report, 94 are domiciled in Israel and 18 in six other States. During the complex process of drawing up the database, the Office consulted the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, and held widespread discussions with numerous States, civil society organizations, think tanks, academics and others, as well as having extensive interactions with the companies themselves.
The report makes clear that the reference to these business entities is not, and does not purport to be, a judicial or quasi-judicial process. While the settlements as such are regarded as illegal under international law**, this report does not provide a legal characterization of the activities in question, or of business enterprises’ involvement in them. Any further steps with respect to the continuation of this mandate will be a matter for the Member States of the Human Rights Council, which will consider the report during the Council’s next session, beginning on 24 February.
“I am conscious this issue has been, and will continue to be, highly contentious,” said Michelle Bachelet, the current High Commissioner for Human Rights. “However, after an extensive and meticulous review process, we are satisfied this fact-based report reflects the serious consideration that has been given to this unprecedented and highly complex mandate, and that it responds appropriately to the Human Rights Council’s request contained in resolution 31/36,” Bachelet said.
ENDS
* Human Rights Council resolution 31/36, adopted on 24 March 2016, requested the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to produce a report to follow up on the 2013 report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (A/HRC/22/63). The resolution defined the parameters of the current report by reference to ten specific activities listed in Paragraph 96 of the Fact-Finding Mission’s report. Human Rights Council resolution 31/36 was adopted with 32 States in favour, none against and 15 abstentions.
DOC.P
OPEN BRIEF AAN DIRK
8 FEBRUARI 2017
http://www.docp.nl/open-brief-aan-dirk/
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OPEN BRIEF AAN DIRK
8 FEBRUARI 2017
