Victory to the Intifada! Picket of M&S
Event date: August 13, 2009 17:00
Published by group:
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! North East
Tagged as: m&s marks_and_spencer palestine repression social_struggles
Outside M&S, Northumberland Street, Newcastle
Places: newcastle north_east
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Boycott Israeli Terror - Boycott M&S!
Boycotting Israeli goods is essential to undermining the racist Zionist regime, but there is one company that must be particularly targeted. That company should be a British one to highlight the links to this country and our responsibility. That company is Marks & Spencer - the biggest British corporate sponsor of Israel. Marks & Spencer is not just interested in trading with Israel for profit like other companies, it is and always has been an unequivocal supporter of Zionism- ‘aiding the economic development of Israel is one of our main objectives' said Lord Sieff, long-time chairman of M&S (The M&S Way, 1999).
THEY SUPPORT APARTHEID, DON'T SUPPORT THEM!
M&S sales of Israeli imports in 2000 amounted to £240 million (Jewish Chronicle, 8 December 2000)
As early as the 1940s M&S Chairman Israel Sieff openly ADVOCATED ETHNIC CLEANSING in Palestine: "large sections of the Arab population of Palestine should be transplanted to Iraq and other Middle-Eastern Arab States" (Jewish Chronicle, 21/09/1941)
M&S RECEIVED the Jubilee Award, Israel's highest tribute, from Israeli PM Netanyahu in 1998, for its services to Israel. In Nov 2000 the Israeli ambassador to London honoured M&S for their economic support to Israel (Jewish Chronicle, 24 November 2000).
M&S today is one of the core members of the British-Israel Chamber of Commerce (B-ICC). CEO Stuart Rose was GUEST SPEAKER at the annual dinner of the B-ICC on 09/12/04, alongside the Israeli ambassador and the British ambassador to Israel (www.b-icc.org.uk).
M&S' Political and Ideological support for the racist Zionist regime continued when Stuart Rose spoke alongside the Israeli Ambassador at a meeting in support of British ORT, an organisation actively building support for Israel in Britain, whose chairman David Sieff is also a director of M&S (08/04/08)
M&S' consistent support for Israel can be explained by what CEO Stuart Rose described on 8th April 2008 as a management policy of "internal succession, to nurture managerial talent that was already imbued with the values, goals and strategy of Marks & Spencer.
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Every Thursday, 5-7pm, Northumberland Street, Newcastle
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