World’s largest nursing union cuts ties with Israeli drugmaker Teva

World’s largest nursing union cuts ties with Israeli drugmaker Teva

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The world’s largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has cut ties with Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva over its links to the country’s military and a long record of corruption and bribery scandals.

Following the decision, the RCN removed Teva UK as a sponsor and partner of an upcoming event at the union’s headquarters in London.

Pro-Palestine groups hailed the move as “a major breakthrough” for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate Israel over the Gaza genocide and its apartheid policies in the occupied West Bank.

The RCN, which represents nearly 600,000 nurses, acted after Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges (UKHPRC) campaigned against the partnership.

In a public letter, nurses, midwives and healthcare professionals warned that Teva UK is “entangled with the Israeli military, part of the institutional apparatus of apartheid and responsible for corporate malfeasance”.

The letter also criticised the RCN leadership’s invocation of “political neutrality” in response to previous attempts by members to “take a clear, principled stand on the ongoing genocide in Gaza”.

“Accepting commercial sponsorship from a corporate titan deeply woven into the Israeli state’s military apparatus, and its wartime mobilisation, is the very antithesis of neutrality,” the signatories wrote.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/worlds-largest-nursing-union-cuts-ties-israeli-drugmaker-teva

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u/Able_Compote6571 — 4 days ago
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Reminder of why we boycott these monsters torturing innocent children in every way possible!

Little child forced to smash his own kite over israel's threats!

How fucked up one must be in their heads to force children through this.. We must never forget, never forgive!

Boycott israhell!

u/Able_Compote6571 — 2 months ago
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Boycott Sephora (owned by LVMH) Partenering with Glam42 in israel

Sephora has no plans to open its own stores in Israel, the LVMH-owned beauty retailer said on Wednesday, denying media reports it would launch its first stores in the country later this month, while confirming a partnership with an Israeli retailer.

Sephora Collection, the company’s own beauty brand, has signed a temporary resale agreement with Israeli retailer Glam42, Sephora said in a statement, adding the products would be available in some Glam42 stores in Israel from end-August.

After Israeli media reports about Sephora opening stores, Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X: “Welcome to Israel, Sephora!”

Sephora’s partnership with Glam42 comes as brands doing business in Israel are under pressure from a boycott movement that has grown since Israel began its genocide in Gaza.

“By starting business in Israel, directly or through an Israeli dealer/reseller, particularly under these circumstances, Sephora and its owner LVMH have chosen to deepen their complicity with Israel’s regime of genocide, apartheid and illegal military occupation — at a time when much of the world is moving in the opposite direction, and Israel’s genocidal regime is more isolated than ever,” a BDS spokesperson told The New Arab.

“Glam42, the company reported to be importing Sephora Collection products to the Israeli market, is a major supplier to the Israeli genocidal army, making Sephora even more complicit,” the BDS movement added.

Organisers say Glam42 sells Ahava products, whose production sites are partly located in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

u/Able_Compote6571 — 2 months ago
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Israel drops new type of bomb in Gaza suspected to be a thermobaric bomb

Palestinians in Gaza say Israel has dropped a new kind of bomb, describing it as a “mini nuke.” Military analysts believe it was likely a thermobaric, or “vacuum,” weapon, a high-intensity explosive that uses oxygen from the air to create a massive fireball and shockwave. The blast can flatten buildings and cause devastation similar to a small nuclear detonation, but without radiation.
Israel has not commented on the reports, and the exact type of munition used remains unconfirmed.

u/Able_Compote6571 — 3 months ago