I argue with people about boycotting this company all this time. They do love their Sodastreams, but the company is in an illegal settlement that was stolen from the Palestinians. They employed Palestinians, true — but not anymore:
Sodastream, which makes soda machines for home use, fired 60 Palestinian workers this month from its plant in the West Bank settlement of Mishor Adumim over a dispute about the food they received during their shifts to break the day-long fast during the month of Ramadan.
WAC-MAAN, the trade union representing the plant’s Palestinian workers, said that in early July workers on the evening shift complained that the food they received was insufficient.
“Sixty workers, who are prohibited from bringing food from home because of Jewish dietary laws, found themselves without enough food after the 16-hour fast,” Maan’s Jerusalem coordinator, Erez Wagner, said.
Wagner said the workers approached management and explained that it would be difficult for them to work through the night without sufficient food, noting that it was dangerous for them to work the big machines when they were both hungry and tired.
According to Wagner, one executive accused the workers of deliberately provoking confrontation, an accusation the workers denied.
This has Hobby Lobby written all over it.