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Lobby group gets SA company to sever Israeli co-op link
Karsten Farms, a South African agricultural company…has terminated relations with the Israeli co-operative Hadiklaim. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in South Africa (BDS SA), a lobby group, said…Karsten Farms undertook "not to enter into any trade relations with Hadiklaim"...[or] any Israeli entity complicit in the "illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine"…the first time that a South African company has adopted such an undertaking...BDS SA launched a consumer campaign against Karsten Farms...[claiming Hadiklaim] was operating "against international law"...BDS SA and fellow lobby group Open Shuhada Street last year called on Pretoria to "impose broad-based boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel until the country ends its violence against the Palestinian people, abides to international law and respects human rights."