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Israeli
Firm Calls for Boycott of Air France, French Groups Call for boycott
of Israeli Goods
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row broke out between air crew and passengers on an Air France
flight between Paris and Tel Aviv because the pilot announced
the destination as Israel-Palestine
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OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, July 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – An Israeli
telecom company called for its employees to boycott Air France in
protest at a pilot's "Israel-Palestine" comment, while in
France, an association of 30 French groups called Thursday, July 11,
for consumers to boycott Israeli goods in protest against the
occupation of the Palestinian West Bank.
The
Israeli telecom company Bezek has called for its thousands of
employees to boycott Air France in protest at a pilot's
"Israel-Palestine" comment last week, army radio reported
Thursday.
A
row broke out between air crew and passengers on an Air France flight
between Paris and Tel Aviv on July 5 after the pilot announced the
destination as Israel-Palestine, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
Ilan
Biran, the head of Bezek, sent a letter to the French carrier's
representative in Israel warning the boycott would stay in place until
the pilot was fired, the radio said.
"We
are Zionists and proud of it, and Israel is our home. We have had
enough of the double-talk of certain people," Biran said in the
message.
In
France, meanwhile, an association of 30 French groups campaigning for
Middle East peace called Thursday for consumers to boycott Israeli
goods in protest at Israel's occupation of Palestinian areas in the
West Bank, AFP said.
"We
call on the public to no longer buy Israeli products as long as the
occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territories continues,"
the president of the Coordination for Calls for a Fair Peace in the
Middle East, Olivia Zemor, told a media conference in Paris.
Israel
"is practicing a virtual apartheid on the Palestinian
population," she said.
The
boycott comes three months after the European parliament suspended an
economic association agreement with Israel because of its violations
of international law.
Israel
exports more than 100 million euros (dollars) of farm products to
France, an expert at the media conference said.
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