Five American yeshiva students from Brooklyn were attacked with rocks and a firebomb after they inadvertently entered an Arab neighborhood in Hebron on Thursday night.

The chief executive of Israeli-owned drinks company SodaStream has accused campaigners against the company’s operation in the West Bank of anti-Semitism on Wednesday, two weeks before the company closes its factory in the occupied territory, according to a report in The Guardian.

“I’m not a hero”, he said. CEO Daniel Birnbaum has told the United States media that the BDS movement against Israel is anti-Semitic. “It’s all the bad stuff we don’t want to be part of”, he said, according to The Guardian.

The historic city, the largest in the West Bank, is dominantly home to Palestinians but partly under Israeli control.

The city has been a site of conflict for many years since the establishment of the Jewish settlements, following the 1967 Mideast war. He stated it will proceed to focus on SodaStream as a result of its new manufacturing unit is situated in an space the place Israel has up to now proposed to resettle Bedouin Arabs.

“SodaStream should have been encouraged in the West Bank if (the BDS movement) truly cared about the Palestinian people“, Birnbaum said. The company employs more than 300 Bedouins. Birnbaum stated the connection with Johansson was for a restricted time and ended shortly after. Jews from all over the world, and even converts to Judaism, are allowed to immigrate to Israel under the “Law of Return”, but in a clear demonstration of religious/ethnic discrimination, the indigenous Palestinian Muslim and Christian populations are banned from returning to their homes.

The commute for West Bank workers will now be a two-hour bus ride to the Negev plant that involves an Israeli border security checkpoint. The movement claimed that SodaStream discriminated against Palestinian workers and paid some less than Israeli workers.