Australia is importing millions of dollars worth of food from illegal West Bank settlements mislabeled as Israeli produce, highlighting significant trade and human rights concerns.
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Analysis by human rights organisation Global Echo shows 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in settlementsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMillions of dollars of food grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been shipped to Australia labelled as “produce of Israel”, new analysis of trade data has shown.Human rights legal organisation Global Echo has analysed commercial documents and official trade data from the Israeli government and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing at least US$5m (A$7.2m) of organic dates grown in illegal settlements across the West Bank have been shipped to Australia over the past eight years. Continue reading...
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