{"id":682451,"date":"2022-06-02T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=288664"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:25:53","slug":"facing-activist-pressure-pillsbury-pulling-out-of-israeli-occupied-west-bank-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/02\/facing-activist-pressure-pillsbury-pulling-out-of-israeli-occupied-west-bank-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing activist pressure, Pillsbury pulling out of Israeli-occupied West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This story originally appeared in Common Dreams<\/a> on June 1, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons license.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Following years of grassroots pressure, multinational food giant General Mills announced Tuesday that after a 20-year partnership, it will sell its majority share of an Israeli company operating a plant where Pillsbury products are made on stolen Palestinian land.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, General Mills said its decision to divest its 60% stake in the Israeli firm Bodan Holdings was centered on “strategic choices about where to prioritize our resources to drive superior returns.”<\/p>\n

Members of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\u2014the Quaker peace group that launched the “No Dough for the Occupation”<\/a> campaign to boycott Pillsbury products two years ago\u2014credited years of activism for the move.<\/p>\n

“General Mills’ divestment shows that public pressure works even on the largest of corporations,” Noam Perry of AFSC’s Economic Activism program said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n

The campaign targeted the Minneapolis-based company because since 2002 it has made Pillsbury products in the Atarot Industrial Zone, an illegal Israeli settler colony in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. Israel’s exclusively Jewish settlements have been condemned<\/a> as a form of apartheid by United Nations human rights officials as well as international<\/a>, Palestinian<\/a>, and Israeli<\/a> advocacy groups.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: @GeneralMills<\/a> divested its Israeli business, after a 2-year campaign calling on the company to stop making Pillsbury products in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory. It's unclear if Pillsbury products will still be made in that settlement pic.twitter.com\/ZdbXM9A6GS<\/a><\/p>\n

— AFSC (@afsc_org) June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n