Please vote in Guardian poll on Scarlett Johansson's links to Israeli company

While I do not advocate supporting anything generally asked by The Guardian, I feel in this instance we should all counter the anti-Israel brigade as best we can and VOTE NO. Be assured they will be pulling out all the stops to make it a wide margin for their propaganda. The level of voting is presently sitting at 69% Yes 31% No. Please let me know if you voted in order that I can gauge whether or not my advocacy is still worthwhile.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/poll/2014/jan/28/communications

 

 

From: We Believe in Israel

Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:30 AM

 

www.webelieveinisrael.org.uk

Dear S Grossman, Please vote in Guardian poll on Scarlett Johansson's links to Israeli company Please can you take a few seconds to go on online and vote "no" to this criticism of Israel (poll at foot of article): http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/poll/2014/jan/28/communications You will probably be aware of the controversy in recent days because of the actress Scarlett Johansson agreeing to be the advertising face of Sodastream, the manufacturer of machines for making carbonated drinks at home.  Sodastream is an Israeli company which has a manufacturing facility in Area C of the West Bank, at a site which may well become part of Israel in any peace deal. Because it operates in the West Bank it is the subject of intensive boycott campaigning by anti-Israel protesters, including protests at its store in Brighton, here in the UK. The company employs hundreds of Palestinian workers, with pay and conditions well above the Palestinian average. Their livelihoods are at stake if the boycott succeeds. You can read more about Sodastream's operations in the West Bank here: http://forward.com/articles/170873/boycott-israel-push-against-sodastream-could-hurt/ Scarlet Johansson is also a global ambassador for Oxfam. The boycott campaigners are calling for Oxfam to drop her from this role, in line with Oxfam's critical position towards Israel. The Guardian website is running an unscientific online poll about whether Oxfam should break its links with Scarlett Johansson. At the moment it is running 85% in favour of this attack on Scarlett Johansson's links to an Israeli company. Please can you take a few seconds to go on online and vote "no" to this criticism: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/poll/2014/jan/28/communications Please then forward this email to your friends and family and ask them to vote "no". Best wishes, Luke Akehurst Director, We Believe in Israel PS If you have been fowarded this email and want to join the "We Believe in Israel" mailing list please sign-up here: http://eepurl.com/mIh3D

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