Palestinian Authority customs agents seized ten tons of settlement-grown cantaloupe Sunday night, Ma'an News Agency reports. The truckload of melons was stopped en route to Bethlehem. Amin Abu Aqil, director of the Bethlehem customs office, said the merchant purchasing the melons would be charge with importing illegal contraband.
The PA banned the purchase and sale of goods produced in West Bank settlements in March. The ban represents a boycott on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and is a proactive, non-violent form of resistance to the occupation...
Settlement umbrella group the Yesha Council has decried the ban on settler goods as "hostile," and says the boycott is a breach of the Paris agreement, which specifies bounds of economic cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan has proposed Israel compensate settler businesses with customs money Israel transfers to the PA.
What makes agricultural produce "settler" produce?
It can't be the "land" location as they claim it's "Palestine".
So, it must be the fact that the communities are Jewish. But would that not be racist?
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