Peace activist seizes 'illegal' dates from supermarket - preview
A former observer for the Quakers in the Middle East has taken direct action against the occupation of Palestinian land by seizing dates from Tesco
Greg Wilkinson took the King Solomon brand medjool dates from a branch of the supermarket in Swansea because he believed they were grown on Israeli settlements in the West Bank He subsequently sold the dates at £1 each to raise money for various charities’ Gaza appeals and wrote to Tesco chief executive Terry Leahy explaining his actions
‘In allowing the sale of settlement products, the British government is defying its own commitments under international law’, argued Greg, citing human rights clauses in EU-Israel trade pacts and the fourth Geneva Convention, which regulates the conduct of occupying powers ‘It is not acceptable that Tesco should sell goods from stolen land’, he said
Oliver Robertson
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