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Swedish Supermarkets Back Out of Israel Boycott after Pro-Israel Campaign


(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Pro-Palestinian organizations called on stores of the Swedish supermarket chain COOP in the city of Varberg to take off the shelves any products manufactured in Israel. In response, Israeli Ambassador to Sweden Isaac Bachman turned to the company's management with arguments against the concept of a commercial boycott. "We spoke in the name of fair trade and avoiding discrimination of any state," Bachman explained. At the same time, pro-Israel activists in Sweden started posting against the supermarket chain's decision on social media and flooded e-mail addresses of the COOP chain's management with messages threatening to boycott the supermarket chain if it continues its boycott against Israel. This led the chain's national management to reject the boycott and threaten that if the Varberg stores do not stop the boycott, they will no longer be a part of the chain, effectively putting an end to the boycott.
2015-06-18 00:00:00
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