So much for that hope. According to those people, Ellen DeGeneres has a taste for carbonated apartheid.
https://twitter.com/TheChicagoBaker/statuses/458727279125094400
The A-list talk show host celebrated Earth Day by sending her audience home with SodaStream machines, gadgets that allow fizzy-drink fans make their own bubbly beverages.
https://twitter.com/SodaStream/status/458894605514469376
SodaStream, headquartered in Israel, has a West Bank manufacturing facility and is the ongoing target of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
Earlier this year, film star Scarlett Johansson found herself on the BDS enemies list after she appeared in SodaStream’s Super Bowl ad. The actress stuck with SodaStream. Will Ellen stand up to the BDS bullies shrieking about her “promotion of apartheid” and “contempt for human rights”?
https://twitter.com/JuniorCelente/status/458883699871059968
Does @TheEllenShow know about apartheid? RT @TheChicagoBaker: Ellen gives away Sodastream machines for Earth day. http://t.co/UyvGI4ohoN”
— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April 22, 2014
@raniakhalek @theellenshow @thechicagobaker She is a defender of Israel…
— LUX (@EnkiEa666) April 22, 2014
A “defender of Israel”? How dare she support what’s right?
@RaniaKhalek @TheEllenShow @TheChicagoBaker not only is she supporting apartheid but how is sodastream good for the environment again?
— Julia Quarantine (@Pinkham_Artemis) April 22, 2014
So bummed to see @TheEllenShow and @EDeGeneresFans promoting @SodaStream an Israeli company that profits off of apartheid. #FreePalestine
— KLCraig (@kl_craig) April 22, 2014
Horrifying that @TheEllenShow gave #SodaStream to audience. Does she have contempt for human rights? I'll #BoycottEllen as I support #BDS.
— Julie (@NYCJulieNYC) April 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/paversarogers/status/458725955293683712
Shameful promo of #SodaStream on Ellen @TheEllenShow. Wish she could acknowledge its practices on illegally occupied land of Palestinians.
— Elaine McIlwraith (@dr_elainemc) April 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/DictatorReema/status/458920659318759424
–@TheEllenShow, occupation isn't green. That's why @EarthDayNetwork cut ties w/ #Sodastream http://t.co/zLLoEK9waK pic.twitter.com/2AMU5QuPr8
— Stephanie Westbrook (@stephinrome) April 22, 2014
@SodaStreamUSA @TheEllenShow Ugh. Appears a clueless (or worse) Ellen supports occupation profiteering. @intifada #BDS
— الغرير (@AlGhorear) April 23, 2014
Of 1,300 employees at the West Bank SodaStream factory, 500 are reportedly Palestinian.