As per a report in Bllomberg.com (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-04/soros-fund-no-longer-holds-shares-of-sodastream.html),
George Soros, in early August, sold the 550,000 shares in SodaStream he had purchased
in May.
The purchase of those shares caused Soros, champion of civil
liberties and of open societies that he has been, to be vilified by BDS founder
Omar Barghouti.
According to a recent report
SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum has announced that his company will soon decide whether
to close the controversial West Bank plant.
There has been no indication by spokesmen for Soros about
whether his decision to sell had anything to do with the BDS campaign directed at
SodaStream.
Birnbaum, however, has stressed that political
pressures brought to bear on his company played no part, and that the decision
would be "purely financial."
Who knows.
The ways of the market are dark and deep.
What is indisputable, however, is that SodaStream has already
fired 100-200 workers at the West Bank plant — Palestinian workers who had been
paid and treated as well as their Jewish co-workers.
Whatever the reason, what kind of victory is that, and the
possible relocation of the SodaStream factory, supposed to be for the
Palestinian cause?
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