has been condemned by the european union they actually no longer can qualify for subsidies that product of israel because they're not a product of israel they're proud to be occupied palestinian territory the only resource they have stolen the land from them since nine hundred forty eight they have given them off the land they've imprisoned them into a tiny portion of what they used to own and surrounded it with checkpoints and roads that only israelis can drive on  manufacturers cosmetics in the occupied palestinian territory and an illegal settlement not only exploits palestinian resources for cleverly mis labels its cosmetics as a product of israel rather than product  however north from continues to sell products on its website and in its stores there's a pleasure to welcome human rights activists and returning guests under frank more politics it's nice to be i certainly think they do especially since they tout themselves as being a socially responsible business i think that there's an importance for companies who use that kind of verbiage to be sure that they backing it with actual practice to start with what does that mean exactly b d s stands for boycott divestment and sanctions in two thousand and five palestinian civil society asked the world the citizens of the world to help to bring an end to the israeli illegal israeli occupation that's now going on for forty three years and fashioned after the boycott divestment sanctions mov settlement all settlements are illegal under international law under the article forty nine of the fourth geneva convention an occupying power cannot take its population and move that population into the occupied territory if they do them in the i would  commissioned this study and there were israelis there were internationals there were south africans as part of this study and they determined that israel indeed is engaging in colonialism as well as apartheid and apartheid is illegal under international law illegal entry into international law so what i have is doing they harvest minerals from the dead sea in the area of these two israeli illegal israeli settlements and it's not like you're carrying on that whole jordan valley area where these two settlements are situated and palestinians literally cannot even access their own resources there that's a violation of the right to move minister violation to right to housing to which sits i mean if you look in wiki pedia there's a description of mitzvah shallow as and in a settlement and you look at the map and it's clearly situated in the occupied west bank and so code pink went and visited the factory where they have a products are processed and there's a visitor center in fact the israeli peace organization has put out an appeal for their not to be this festival that's been products as being a product of israel when clearly the product is a in a product of an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank recently the european union ruled that products  do will no longer qualify for certain trade subsidies and so and also the labeling now i believe for a as well as for any product that comes out of a west bank settlement must be labeled something to the effect of israeli settlement product so that people know that they're not buying even if they labeled it occupied west bank or occupied palestinian territories it could be a product that palestinians are trying to bring to market so consumers want to know is this product a product that's helping the palestinian the fledgling palestinian economy or is this a product that's helping to entrench the occupation carrying on haven't they been educated as to how damaging the product is not only to palestinians but to israelis a lot of israelis now will tell you a lot of israelis don't know what an occupation is they are not educated about the west bank as being palestinian territory even being part of palestine the maps in the israeli schools just show one contiguous territory so this is a way as alice walker says in her appeal on the the pulitzer prize winning author of the color purple and many other books and poems and she has stated in her appeal for the boycott in support for the boycott that this is a way to  bring awareness to the israeli public because they the occupation is now behind the wall and they can be five the palestinians can be locked up five miles away and the israelis have no idea what's happening to them and how brutal the israeli occupation and apartheid policies have been for palestinians so the boycott is a way for individuals to be to become empowered and to be able to take action themselves and be a part of bringing peace to the middle east and it's also a way to raise awareness of the  believe it literally translates into the israeli peace bloc and and many of the founders of loam are stated zionists so i think what's important for people to understand is that a call for a boycott of israeli products especially a boycott of settlement products is not anti israel and it's not anti israeli and it's not anti jewish or anti semitic it is anti occupation policy i anti obstruction to peace every us united states administration has called the settlements a major obstacle to peace if not the major obstacle to peace and you can read those quotes up on churches for middle east peace has a web page dedicated to these quotes where various united states officials are saying this these settlements are problematic the palestinians have a way of free framing this the problem they say it's like someone is wrote i was shopping in ne in one day in fact i got these earrings i literally am an nordstrom shopper head to toe since i came to the pacific northwest and so i was in north to go over to the cosmetic counter to see if they cared to have and i ended up in the shoe department and so i got home and i thought let me call them and so i called the nasty you carea have a products in the galley i spoke with said yes we do and i said gee i'm sorry to hear that that's problematic because and i talked a little bit and she said well i'll forward your message to some of the executives who are involved would be involved in this issue and i got a phone call back from the director of public relations who said thanks for the information but we have no intention of changing our relationship with the harvest so i looked at their nordstrom social responsibility guidelines and saw right there in black and white that nordstrom works to encourage accuracy in labeling and so here is this company  fraudulent labeling its product as a product of israel and it's a product of that occupied palestinian territory and they didn't get the disconnect between the well i outlined i sent a letter that was quite extensive and had a lot of resources for them with a lot of israeli the israeli human rights organization bet selim has states clearly you know land was taken from the palestinians this is problematic for palestinians that it compromises their human rights their their right to self determination etc etc i had all the resources they could possibly want and i was very disappointed to get a letter back that said again thank you for sharing the information we showed this to the marketing person or something who deals with the account and we are again not going to change our relationship we understand there are forget how the verbiage but something to the effect of that there are different perspectives on this well yes there are different perspectives but there's the law there's international law and there's international humanitarian or human rights law and so code pink then issued a call for center website that the world council of churches has gotten involved in the u k in england and ireland calling on retailers to stop carrying products from settlement so it will be wonderful if here in the united states we can similarly engage the churches to a similar appeal again this is not something that compromises in any way the safety or the rights of israelis this is this is the settlements support a look cooed extremist policy if you look at the platform it specifically states there will not be a palestinian state and we will build settlements whenever and wherever we think he used that word but he said that the lack of movement toward peace in this region is in danger ng the lives and the interests of americans and he said the arab world is losing confidence that america has any clout with israel that america can call for justice that america can call for the implementation of international human rights all the roads to the middle east conflict are heading towards dru's well and i think that people should know that jerusalem is the third largest or most significant site in islam and many americans don't know that one of the three reasons for nine eleven cited for the events of nine eleven is israel's disposition of palestinians this continual land grab and taking resources and curtailing freedom and curtailing rights so it's an issue that is fundamentally at americans best interest in fact robert naiman of just foreign policy wrote on having to post the best way we can support u s troops is to boycott set here and there will have to be a change of clothes so shoppers consumers have an opportunity to vote every day and that absolutely and i hope you know i hope that this issue will bring awareness to other businesses in other places around the world i would just like to see a blanket adherence to international law and to human rights now you had a teaching moment you mentioned i want you to describe it what do you  it occurred to me you know i get compliments a lot on some of my nordstrom things my wonderful wideband watch my wonderful person my earrings my beautiful reversible blouse jacket i mean i have four pair of joseph shut cybil shoes from north i'm literally i'm nordstrom head to toe and so i get a lot of compliments and i realize now when someone compliments me on my watch or on my purse or on my earrings that i davis kristin davis who she still a spokesperson for all she's still a spokesperson for oxfam i was very distraught when i found out that i have been an oxfam supporter for a long time and when i found out that kristen davis was being used as a spokesperson by a hava i wrote to oxfam and by email they were based in the u k and i got an e mail back within about eight hours in which they said that they had suspended their relationship with kristin davis because  oxfam has deemed the settlements illegal has certified that and and so they said that they would suspend their relationship with her until her relationship with the hobbit was straightened out and i i sent post which that's sort of the gossip page and that's a page that a i understand a lot of new yorkers read to me when i was a native new yorker it was a page that was very popular and there was the story about kristin davis being used by a hobbit as a spokes person for a company situated in a legal settlement and here we were and a couple months later she was that the relationship was severed and she was doing this of course you know certainly the money was  when i wrote to oxfam i said you know i bet she doesn't know again because we get so little information here in the united states now let's let's talk viewers let's conclude we know that you know the palestinians robert naiman said the one of the best ways we can support our troops is to indulge in boycott you can go to the stolen beauty dot org website there's a lot of information nordstrom is not the only retailer that's being asked to stop carrying  have a say you can sign on to vary and send emails to various retailers you can get educated about it you can go to the w w w who profits dot org website that it was a good thing that was put up by the coalition of shopper and be a participant in your democracy this is what democracy is all about it's being informed and taking action and it's nonviolent you know everyone keeps saying where the palestinian gandhi as well for one thing  and we are points out on her wonderful writings on if americans knew dot org there are a lot of them are in graves or a lot of them are in palestinian prisons i mean the palestinians have been trying nonviolent resistance tax resistance victory gardens since the one nine hundred eighty s since before the first uprising which literally the intifada means a shaking off so this is all about getting freedom self determination human rights and international law all about ending colonialism and apartheid which just boggles me that it to get snow trim socially responsible guidelines they are member of an organization a socially responsible business in its past shallum which manufactures about it and illegal settlements in the occupied territories and  have a has been condemned by the european union they actually no longer can qualify for subsidies that product of israel because they're not a product of israel they're proud to the occupied palestinian territories the only resource