“It’s all the bad stuff we don’t want to be part of”, Birnbaum said, referring to efforts by Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, which said its pressure was behind the decision to move.

Separately, in Israel, the head of the opposition in the Knesset said his country should accept Syrian refugees, even though Israel considers Syria an enemy state and has fought a number of wars with the neighboring country since 1948.

The historic city, the largest in the West Bank, is dominantly home to Palestinians but partly under Israeli control. “SodaStream should have been encouraged in the West Bank if [the BDS movement] truly cared about the Palestinian people“.

Channel 2 said the men s vehicle was torched only after they had abandoned it.

The company was responsible for employing 600 Palestinians at the West Bank factory and sought to transfer their jobs to the Israeli plant.

Employees work at the new SodaStream factory built deep in Israel’s… Birnbaum stated the connection with Johansson was for a restricted time and ended shortly after.

“All the people who wanted to close (SodaStream’s West Bank factory) are mistaken….”

After having fun with years of progress, SodaStream’s income dropped drastically in 2014 and its inventory worth continues to fall.

A local resident took the tourists in until Israeli police and military arrived and evacuated them. However what was as soon as a brief jaunt to the West Financial institution manufacturing unit is now a two-hour journey every means that includes crossing an Israeli checkpoint, the place staff should present their permits and be screened for safety checks.

Despite BDS accusing SodaStream of paying Palestinian workers less than their Israeli counterparts, Birnbaum argued the factory’s wages for Palestinian and Israeli workers were commensurate.