{"id":6584,"date":"2010-08-02T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2010-07-29T01:18:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:18:41","slug":"desmond-tutu-backs-u-s-food-co-op-boycott-of-israeli-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/08\/desmond-tutu-backs-u-s-food-co-op-boycott-of-israeli-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu Backs U.S. Food Co-Op Boycott of Israeli Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie&#8217;s hometown of Olympia, Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that he supports the Olympia Food Co-op&#8217;s boycott of Israeli products.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympia Food Co-op, located in Olympia, Washington, the hometown of the International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie who was killed seven years ago in Gaza, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/blogs\/focus-u-s-a\/food-co-op-in-rachel-corrie-s-hometown-boycotts-israeli-goods-1.302980?localLinksEnabled=false\" >announced last week<\/a> that no Israeli products would be sold at its two grocery stores in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, Desmond Tutu, fully support and endorse the Olympia Food Co-op&#8217;s boycott of Israeli products,&#8221; Tutu said in a statement. &#8220;The Olympia Food Co-op has joined a growing worldwide movement on the part of citizens and the private sector to support by non-violent tangible acts the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tutu also encouraged other cooperatives, grocers and businesses to boycott Israeli goods.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"  http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/international\/desmond-tutu-backs-u-s-food-co-op-boycott-of-israeli-products-1.304657\" >GO TO ORIGINAL \u2013 HAARETZ.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Join the BDS-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong><\/span> products whose <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie&#8217;s hometown of Olympia, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}