Medjoul Dates - Palestine

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Shaher M. El-Ashry, Basem Natsheh, and Mohamed S. Jaradat (2015). "Date Palm Status and Perspective in Palestine". ResearchGate . Retrieved 2023-05-30. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Tesco sells Israeli dates under its ‘Finest’ brand. Its ‘Tesco Finest King Solomon Dates’ are produce of Israel. Dates from West Bank and the Jordan Valley are most likely grown from illegal Israeli settlements, on land stolen from Palestinians.

provides a UNIQUE opportunity to enjoy choice quality Palestinian Medjoul Dates from the Jordan Valley of PalestineWaitrose sells ‘Jordan River Medjool Dates’, with Hadiklaim named on the label as the exporter. It also sells ‘King Solomon Medjool Dates’, again with Hadiklaim named on the label. For farmers facing the prospect of having to abandon farming altogether and potentially risk losing their land, Medjoul date farming has become a lifeline as date palms are able to withstand a certain level of water salinity. Despite it being a labour-intensive and costly activity, international demand for Palestinian Medjoul dates has supported the growth of this sector and exports now account for over 70% of production. Medjool Dates From Israel Wastewater Proving Favorite of Foodies". Bloomberg. 20 November 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021 . Retrieved 20 February 2021.

A case in point is the Jordan Valley, where banana and citrus farms once thrived. With access only to saline water and with no legal means to harvest rainwater, these have now all but disappeared. Israeli settlements are extremely harmful to the Palestinian people. For an Israeli settlement to be built Palestinian people are forcibly removed from their homes, their homes are demolished and they are then denied access to their own land.

BDS CALL

Watch and share the video of Massoud Shadjareh (also below) explaining why concerned citizens should boycott Israeli dates. The dates are grown using excellent production practices, under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Palestinian Institution of Standards and Metrology (PSI) Choose trusted Palestinian sources, like Zaytoun, or Yaffa, for your Medjool dates. They will happily answer all your questions regarding sourcing and traceability of their dates. An amazing way to support Palestinian producers and workers, and justice for Palestine this Ramadan and Eid, and for everyone who wants to make a difference for Palestine. For 60 years now they have lived under brutal Israeli occupation, their land stolen from them, their homes demolished and their children murdered in front of their eyes. The United Nations has condemned Israel on many, many occasions, and the International Court of Justice has ruled the Israeli settlements are illegal - built on stolen Palestinian land, and those that lived through the horror of apartheid in South Africa have described Israel as practising a much worse form of apartheid than thing they suffered under. And yet despite all this, the oppression continues, nothing changes.