Christmas Campaigns
In 2010, Friends of Sabeel-North America circulated a list of ten companies to boycott titled "All I want for Christmas is an End to Apartheid", stating, "While there are many Israeli and multinational companies that benefit from apartheid, we put together this list to highlight ten specific companies to target."
- Ahava
- Delta Galil Industries
- Motorola
- L'Oreal / The Body Shop
- Dorot Garlic and Herbs
- Estee Lauder
- Intel
- Sabra
- Sara Lee
- Victoria's Secret
Adalah-NY held a demonstration in front of Lev Leviev's store in New York. Adalah-NY has been holding this demonstration annually since 2007.
In 2010, War on Want's campaign "Help win justice for the Palestinian people this Christmas" accuses Israel of "illegal Occupation", "daily human rights abuses", and "the siege on Gaza and the Apartheid Wall." As in previous years, this NGO calls for holiday donations in the form of "alternative gifts", in order to "launch a sustained campaign against UK companies that are profiting from the Occupation" and to "secure compensation for those who have lost land due to construction of the Apartheid Wall."
In December 2011, NGO Monitor accused NGOs Sabeel, War on Want (UK), Amos Trust, and Adalah-NY of "exploiting the holiday to advance immoral anti-Israel campaigns and, in some cases, crude antisemitism" and wrote, "Kairos Palestine, Adalah-NY, and Code Pink repeat the incendiary accusation of 'ethnic cleansing' in their campaigns."
Also in December 2011, Philadelphia BDS had people stand outside a grocery store singing Christmas carols with lyrics re-written supporting BDS, and asking people not to buy Tribe and Sabra brands of hummus "claiming that the corporate parents of those brands support the Israeli Defense Forces and therefore subsidize Israeli human rights abuses". In response, about 40 University of Pennsylvania students held a counter-protest by buying hummus in the store.
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