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2. Your choices make a difference!
WHAT’S IN YOUR CART?
Your choices make a difference!

3. This year, YOU can help bring a just and lasting peace to the Holy Land with careful shopping

4. The United Methodist General Conference has called on all nations to boycott products made in illegal settlements on occupied land.
This is not a boycott of
Israel or Israeli goods.

5. It is a boycott of products made outside Israel’s internationally recognized borders and falsely labeled to get US tax exemptions.

6. The UMC opposes Israel’s occupation of land outside its internationally recognized borders.
The town of Bethlehem is in occupied territory.

7. Bethlehem today still exists as the town where Christ was born.
Bethlehem today is a real town in the occupied West Bank

8. signed by almost 3,000 Palestinian Christians!
Bethlehem’s people are suffering and imprisoned.
They have asked for our help.
“Our word is a cry of hope” - from the Kairos Palestine Document
signed by almost 3,000 Palestinian Christians!

9. Inside Bethlehem today are watchtowers, checkpoints, refugee camps, & walls

10. Bethlehem is surrounded by expanding Israeli settlements built in violation of international law.

11. Products made in illegal settlements and industrial zones support oppression.
Confiscation of Palestinian land & water
Home demolitions
Building of new illegal settlements
Pollution of Palestinian farmland
Health problems, including cancer, due to soil and crop contamination
Theft of resources from occupied territory

12. Israel has destroyed over 25,000 Palestinian homes

13. and countless orchards that families depend on

14. Hazardous waste flows from settlement
industries onto Palestinian land.

15. Boycott, a form of nonviolent direct action, has worked many times to end injustice.

16. It can work again!
Settlement industries help fund human rights violations and fuel conflict.
Please boycott settlement goods, including….

17. Ahava
Ahava products are made in Mitzpe Shalem, an illegal settlement, with minerals and mud from the Dead Sea. They are sold in depart-ment stores and pharmacies, and are carried sometimes by TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, and Ulta.

18. Keter Plastic Products
Plastic containers
Tool boxes
Furniture
Toys
Outdoor storage
& Indoor storage
Made in an illegal
settlement

19. Ram Quality Toys These toys are made in Barkan, an illegal settlement.
They are sold by Edushape as Interstar Toys and by
Toys R Us as part of its Imaginarium Discovery Line.

20. Royalife Linens
Sold as Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn brands!
Williams Sonoma, which owns Pottery Barn, imports sheets from Royalife. Their labels say “Made In Israel” but some are from the illegal settlement of Barkan inside the West Bank.

21. Smart-Fab Disposable Art & Decorative Fabric
Made in a settle-ment
Used by schools and teachers
Smart-Fab is sold online through Staples, Wal-Mart, Amazon and other vendors and school supply stores. It is made by Dispobud in the settlement of Barkan.

22. So what should we buy?

23. There are many alternatives to settlement products
There are many alternatives to settlement products If you’re shopping for gifts, consider the following:

24. DO BUY Fair Trade Products from Caanan Fair Trade
canaanfairtrade.com
Canaan Fair Trade Olive Oil and other delicacies come from Jenin, Palestine
Fair Trade creates equity in commerce that is sustainable and can provide hope.

25. DO BUY Fair Trade products from Ten Thousand Villages
Phoenician Glass from Hebron
Tenthousandvillages.com

26. DO BUY Fair Trade products from Diyar in Bethlehem

27. DO BUY Fair Trade products from Sunbula at sunbula.org

28. Remember….
Our buying decisions can make a difference! Please make careful choices in 2015

29. Answering the call from Palestinian Christians
For more information, contact
Answering the call from Palestinian Christians