Slovenia's biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves

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Pressure from BDS activists leads to Mercator removing Israeli produce, including pomelos, dates and avocados, from its stores.

Mercator, Slovenia's largest supermarket chain, has removed Israeli products from its shelves – including pomelos, dates and avocados, following pressure from the BDS movement.


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Israel's Ambassador to Slovenia, Shmuel Meirom, is expected to arrive in the country soon in order to raise the issue with Slovenia's Foreign Ministry, as well as with Mercator's management.

In 2014, the chain attempted to boycott Israeli "JAFFA"-branded grapefruits, again following pressure from BDS activists.

Following intensive efforts by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Israel supporters in Slovenia, the chain renewed its marketing of Israeli-branded products, an initiative that now seems to have failed

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4755218,00.html

Note: The Republic no longer has shares (http://www.mercatorgroup.si/sl/za-vlagatelje/delnica/lastniska-struktura/) in the conpany (this has been so for years) the article has a mistace.


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More (also more acurate article) :
http://www.timesofisrael.com/slovenian-chain-succumbs-to-bds-pulls-israeli-fruits/

[Porpoise101]

Dang what will Slovenians do without their avocados??? Sounds like a total disaster.

[Judean Zealot]

Their loss.

*shrug*

Mind you, the only ones hurt by BDS are the primarily Palestinian plant workers. They're the ones who lose their jobs when companies relocate to the Israeli side of the green line. But that's typical of liberals, do stupid shit that only hurts the people they're ostensibly trying to help. Like burning down black neighbourhoods and businesses when a black fellow gets shot.

[Falcons_11]

Where would have Mercator gotten replacement products to fill the void left by the boycott of those Israeli products taken off their shelves? Did they say?

[Uniquemind]

So the products pulled are perfectly good?

Can I have them?

[phuckphace]

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