Introduction
Every year, millions of consumers around the world purchase citrus, herbs, avocados, and dates labeled "Product of Israel.”
But much of that produce is actually grown on stolen Palestinian land.
Global Echo has conducted a three year-long transnational investigation into the export to Europe of goods from Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank and the Occupied Syrian Golan.
Investigators uncovered a multi-faceted system of fraud by which settlement goods flow onto the European market. The profits reaped help sustain Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, and further Palestinian and Syrian dispossession.
