A woman wears a placard reading ‘Bubbles of Sodastream, Tears of Palestinians’ during a demonstration, on January 31, 2015 on the sidelines of the 42nd Angouleme International Comics Festival (Festival international de la bande dessinee d’Angouleme) to protest against the partnership between the comics festival and the Israeli drinks firm SodaStream, in Angouleme, western France. Sodastream, hit by international boycott calls, claims its factory in the Jewish settlement of Mishor Adumim in the occupied West Bank, is a ‘model of integration’ employing 500 Palestinians, 450 Arab Israelis and 350 Israeli Jews on the same salaries and with the same social security benefits. Palestinian employees ‘receive salaries four or five times that of the average wage in the territories controlled by Palestinian authorities’, it has said. Source: Getty Images
