Apartheid Round Tables in Tel-Aviv
Channel: boycott apartheid
Date: 2015-12-06

Press release: http://bit.ly/ApartheidRoundTablesPR
In November 2015 head chefs from nine famous restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Rome and Athens spent a week cooking in Tel Aviv as part of a PR initiative to bring international prestige to Israel’s culinary scene. The Round Tables culinary show is sponsored by Israeli government ministries, the Tel Aviv Municipality and businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements.

Over 130 civil society groups wrote to the restaurant chefs calling on them to cancel participation from this complicit initiative that whitewashes Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

The initiative is even more tasteless as it comes on the heels of brutal Israeli repression against Palestinians protesting for their rights and freedom in the Occupied Territories and inside Israel. Racist incitement by Israeli officials and public against Palestinians has reached shocking and unprecedented levels.

During the Round Tables in apartheid Tel Aviv, concerned citizens from around the world have expressed their dismay to those restaurateurs who have been participating in this effort of whitewashing Israeli crimes.

#ApartheidRoundTables

[ENGLISH]  http://bit.ly/1KB8eCa
[SPANISH]  http://goo.gl/MCyODC
[CATALAN]  http://goo.gl/mvJgsx
[ITALIAN]  http://bit.ly/1ibXinS
[GERMAN] http://goo.gl/k4nXnd

Participating restaurants:
The Fat Radish (NYC): @thefatradish
Stazione di Posta (Rome): @StazioneDiPosta
Osteria Mozza (LA): @OsteriaMozza + chefs @NancySilverton & @Mariobatali
Craft (London): @CraftLDN + chef @StevieParle
The Cinnamon Kitchen (London): @CinnamonKitchen
Ron Gastrobar (Amsterdam): @RonGastrobar + chef @ronblaauw
Tragaluz (Barcelona): @grupotragaluz
Fruehsammers (Berlin)
Milos (Athens)

Barcelona footage and images:
La Directa (https://directa.cat/)

Apartheid Roundtables song:
Dave Lippman (http://www.davelippman.com/mp3s/boycottsongs)

For more info:
http://bit.ly/ApartheidRoundTables