Ikea shows no intention of ending delivery of its products to Israel’s illegal settlement colonies in the West Bank. For years, Ikea has been facilitating the delivery of products from its Israeli stores to residents of Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Ikea has been informed several times that facilitation of such transport services boils down to complicity with Israel’s internationally illegal settlement colony enterprise.
Ikea products come from Sweden, the same country trying to capture Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange and turn him over to the Americans.
Ikea was asked by the London-based Business & Human Rights Resource Centre to respond to the fact that Ikea delivers to Israeli settlements but refuses to deliver products to Palestinian population centers in the occupied West Bank.
In its response Ikea attempts to evade responsibility for this blatant discrimination and normalization of an illegal situation and fails to address its delivery to Israel’s West Bank settlements. The company simply states that its local franchisee is responsible for the local management, investments and business decisions related to the Ikea stores in Israel.
Ikea repeats its claim that in 2010, the Israeli franchisee arranged for home delivery of Ikea products to people living in the areas controlled by the "Palestinian Authorities." But as The Electronic Intifada reported last month, Ikea refuses to deliver to Beit Sahour, claiming that the Bethlehem-area Palestinian village was too dangerous. But passing through Israeli checkpoints to deliver to the illegal Beitar Illit settlement proved to be no problem.
