{"id":5029,"date":"2014-02-05T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2014-02-05T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:49:02","slug":"cartoonists-urge-angouleme-to-drop-sodastream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/02\/05\/cartoonists-urge-angouleme-to-drop-sodastream\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoonists urge Angoul\u00eame to drop Sodastream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nDozens of well known cartoonists, including Joe Sacco, Tardi and Baru have signed an open lettre urging the Angoul\u00eame Comics Festival to drop Sodastream as a sponsor<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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\nWe, cartoonists, illustrators and authors from all countries, are surprised, disappointed and angry to find out that SodaStream is an official sponsor of the Angoul\u00eame International Comics Festival.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs you must know, SodaStream is the target of an international boycott call for its contribution to the colonization of Palestinian land, due to its factory in the illegal settlement of Ma\u2019ale Adumim, its exploitation of Palestinian workers, and its theft of Palestinian resources, in violation of international law and contravening international principles of human rights.\n<\/p>\n

\nAngoul\u00eame has had an important role in the appreciation of comics as an art form for over 40 years. It would be sad if SodaStream were able to use this event to whitewash their crimes.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe ask you to cut all ties between the Festival and this shameful company.\n<\/p>\n

\nSincerely,\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThis fight against Sodastream, for having established a plant in a Israeli settlement on stolen Palestian land in the West Bank, a plant Sodastream itself has admitted was a mistake<\/a>, is just one small battle in the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) struggle against the Israeli Apartheid State. It’s similar in fact to that long struggle against South African Apartheid in the seventies and eighties and hopefully it can lead to similar results. Certainly the Israeli government fears the movement<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe movement\u2019s economic impact is also becoming evident. The recent decision by the $200 billion Dutch pension fund PGGM to divest from the five largest Israeli banks because of their involvement in occupied Palestinian territory has sent shock waves through the Israeli establishment.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo underscore the \u201cexistential\u201d danger that B.D.S. poses, Israel and its lobby groups often invoke the smear of anti-Semitism, despite the unequivocal, consistent position of the movement against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism. This unfounded allegation is intended to intimidate into silence those who criticize Israel and to conflate such criticism with anti-Jewish racism.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nGetting Angoul\u00eame to drop Sodastream sponsorship, though welcome, is of course not going to change Israeli policies but seeing conservative pension funds start to drop Israeli investments, as much out of conviction as for legal concerns, that’s a game changer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dozens of well known cartoonists, including Joe Sacco, Tardi and Baru have signed an open lettre urging the Angoul\u00eame Comics Festival to drop Sodastream as a sponsor: We, cartoonists, illustrators and authors from all countries, are surprised, disappointed and angry to find out that SodaStream is an official sponsor of the Angoul\u00eame International Comics Festival. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-israelpalestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}