Muslim activists protest in French supermarkets against Israeli dates
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Several activists have documented their movements in videos posted on social media in condemnation of these supermarkets selling Israeli-produced dates.
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Car leaves a Carrefour supermarket in Anglet, southwestern France, on Jan.23, 2018. (AP)
French activists have been pushing supermarkets to boycott all Israeli occupation products or add a clear sign to label the source of production as Israeli.
Several activists have documented their movements in videos posted on social media in condemnation of these supermarkets selling Israeli-produced dates in the Ramadan food aisles.
Carrefour
One of the activists posted a video on social media in which he verbally clashed with one of the employees working at Carrefour after finding Israeli-produced dates in the Ramadan aisle for goods.
"How dare you?" the activist asked after calling them out for selling, in this specific section, dates produced by the occupation whose forces "have been hunting the people of Gaza like they are hunting rabbits," he emphasized.
The activist, who did not give up until the employee removed the occupation's products, added that this was considered disrespectful towards every Muslim shopping at Carrefour and urged the latter to remove all Israeli-produced dates and replace them with Algerian dates.
À l’approche du ramadan, faites attention à ce que vous achetez les musulmans, consommez les dattes algériennes et évidemment boycottez Carrefour qui finance le génocide à Gaza en Palestine pic.twitter.com/9LM2IYgS45
— ⴱⵙⴷ (@bsd94_) February 24, 2024
Auchan
In a similar incident, a Muslim customer found "Medjoul" dates in the Ramadan aisle in an Auchan branch with the latter labeling the produce as Algerian.
This prompted the woman to call the store out as this specific brand of dates is Israeli and not Algerian. She further urged the store to "remove the misleading signs."
As the employee tried to inform the woman that such a decision was not up to them, the Muslim customer requested to talk to the person in charge stressing that she would not leave the store before that happened.
The woman further condemned this act labeling it as an attempt to "mislead consumers" by providing false information, especially amid the unfolding Israeli genocide against Gaza.
The activist emerged victorious, as the employee had no option left but to write "Israel" on the sign.
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— ALGERIAN DEBUNK (@algerian_debunk) March 1, 2024
Des dattes Medjoul de l’entité ont été étiquetées en provenance d’ALGÉRIE 🇩🇿 dans un magasin Auchan en banlieue parisienne ! C’est un scandale ! @ambalgerieparis
Partagez la vidéo svp afin de stopper cette mascarade ! @AUCHAN_France c’est honteux ! pic.twitter.com/z2cgirZiue
Lidl bashed in France for covering Israeli products with fake origins
Lidl supermarkets in France came under fire in November for trying to disguise products from "Israel" by labeling products such as Israeli avocados and pomegranates as being of African or Spanish origin.
Users posted photos on X featuring the products with both the original labels and those added by the store, naming it "a scandal at Lidl."
"The item is supposed to come from Morocco according to its label, but after examining it, it turns out that the real origin is Israel," one user stated.
"Same thing [happened to me] this morning at the Lidl in Vallauris – avocados from Morocco on the store label, and on the avocado, an Israeli label… I think there are plenty of stores doing this to sell their stocks," another user said on X.
Similar incidents had also reportedly been previously witnessed in Auchan and Carrefour stores.
