Scarlett Johansson quits as Oxfam ambassador after row over SodaStream job

AP via Yedioth Ahronoth ^ | 01.30.14, 08:22 | (Derrik J. Lang)

[Olog-hai]

Scarlett Johansson is ending her relationship with a humanitarian group after being criticized over her support for SodaStream, the Israeli company with a factory in the West Bank.

A statement released by Johansson’s spokesman Wednesday said the 29-year-old actress has “a fundamental difference of opinion” with Oxfam International because the humanitarian group opposes all trade from Israeli settlements, saying they are illegal and deny Palestinian rights. […]

SodaStream has come under fire from pro-Palestinian activists for maintaining a large factory in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, some 10 minutes from Jerusalem. The factory employs more than 500 Palestinians. …

[Gene Eric]

That didn’t take long.

[Bobalu]

I just despise the Hollyweird leftists! :-(

[catbertz]

I can never stay mad at her boobies...I mean her antics. I’m a horrible person.

[fella]

Will wonders never cease? A big name Hollywood star with ethics and conviction.

Hope she has lots of money socked away because she’ll not get another contract for a long time if ever. The Arabs own Hollywood and most of our media through intertwined shell companies.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Good for her. I guess instead of a good job Palis just need to herd goats and wallow in their own s//t

[Kozak]

+1 for Ms Johansson...

[SeminoleCounty]

Good move by ScarJo

Oxfam is very anti Semitic.

[txroadhawg]

Nice Set... of pictures

[Erik Latranyi]

I believe Scarlett is more liberal than FReepers want to know. I believe she is anti-gun and pro-Obama.

Regardless, she is right on this issue and deserves our support on this issue.

[ClearCase_guy]

Good for her! She chose the right side.

[wewereright]

I agree . I’ve often thought that more job opportunities for the Palestinians would help to stablize things. Oxfam must be like the democrats - they need those they purport to represent to be poor and ignorant. Come to thinki of it - Oxfam is probably run by liberals.

[Revelation 911]

an Israeli company - I just might buy one now

[lbryce]

[Fresh Wind]

Two brains are better than none.

[scrabblehack]

I’ve got a sodastream machine - I’ve been happy with it.

[dennisw]

Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City, New York on November 22, 1984.^[7] Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect originally from Copenhagen,^[8] and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx.^[9][10][11] Sloan's ancestors emigrated to New York from Minsk, Tsarist Russia.^[12] She has an older sister, Vanessa, also an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared with her in the film Manny & Lo);^[13] and an older half-brother, Christian, from her father's first marriage.^[14]

Johansson grew up in a household with "little money",^[15] and with a mother who was a "film buff".^[16] She and her brother, Hunter, attended P.S. 41 in the upper-middle-class Greenwich Village neighborhood, in Manhattan, for elementary school.^[17] Johansson began her theatrical training by attending and graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002.^[18]

 

^{************* One of the best chick flicks. The Horse Whisperer. She was in it at age 16 or so. A good movie
*************  This young lady is Jewish via her mother. I wish her well with this Soda Stream controversy}

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

It’s not ethics or conviction. Money talks. That’s it.

[SueRae]

She’s an 0bama lover. Not sympathy whatsoever. Maybe one day she’ll grow up.

[SJackson]

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