Knesset Speaker Edelstein to British MPs: BDS Is Enemy of Palestinians

Jerusalem, 2 March, 2016 (TPS) -- In a speech given to 40 MPs at the British Parliament today, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein argued that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS) were actually enemies of the Palestinians.

The Knesset Speaker referred to such an incident where under BDS pressure, the Israeli SodaStream business moved its factory from the community of Ma’ale Adumim located east of Jerusalem, to the Negev region. As a result, hundreds of its former Palestinian employees are now out of work.

“As a result of these movements, factories have moved to the Negev,” noted Edelstein. “Eight hundred Palestinian families are unemployed today because a factory had to move its Palestinian workers from Judea and Samaria, to the Negev. “