Food grown in illegal West Bank settlements being sold in Australia as ‘produce of Israel’

Analysis by human rights organisation Global Echo shows 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in settlements Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Millions of dollars of food grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been shipped to Australia labelled as “produce of Israel”, new analysis of trade data has shown. Human rights legal organisation Global Echo has analysed commercial documents and official trade data from the Israeli government and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing at least US$5m (A$7.2m) of organic dates grown in illegal settlements across the West Bank have been shipped to Australia over the past eight years. Continue reading...

貿易數據分析顯示，約旦河西岸非法定居點出產的農產品被貼上“以色列產品”標簽大量出口到澳大利亞，近兩年椰棗貨物中多數來自定居點。澳大利亞政府雖承認定居點非法，但暫不實施全面進口禁令，理由是擔心波及本國企業。