{"id":147090,"date":"2025-11-22T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/147090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:56:17","slug":"major-food-chain-in-finland-announce-boycott-of-products-made-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/147090\/","title":{"rendered":"Major food chain in Finland announce boycott of products made in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finnish food\u2011retail group S\u2011ryhm\u00e4 (S-Group) announced Wednesday that it is temporarily halting purchases of products of Israeli origin. The decision\u2014approved in September by the group\u2019s board of directors and confirmed this week by the consumer representation of the Helsinki region (by a 46 to 9 vote)\u2014applies across all its Prisma and S\u2011market stores.<\/p>\n

Nina Alomaa, S\u2011ryhm\u00e4\u2019s Corporate Responsibility director, confirmed: \u201cWe have decided for the time being to stop purchasing products of Israeli origin.\u201d She added that there is no intention to remove existing items from shelves, nor to cancel existing contracts\u2014but no new Israeli\u2011origin products will be bought, and no new agreements will be signed. Among the affected product categories: fruits and vegetables (particularly dates), cosmetics, craft accessories and SodaStream appliances.<\/p>\n

The backdrop of the decision is the war in Gaza. \u201cWe are closely monitoring the peace negotiations and the position of the European Union, and will reconsider the policy accordingly,\u201d Alomaa said.<\/p>\n

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S-ryhm\u00e4 supermarket in Finland<\/p>\n

(Photo: Screenshot from S-ryhm\u00e4’s X page)<\/p>\n

At the same time, there have been fierce protests for many weeks in northern Finland against a plan led by an Israeli company to build a large ski resort and luxury hotel in Lapland. The protesters are publicly supported by members of Parliament and ministers from left\u2011wing and Green parties.<\/p>\n

The Finns bought Israel\u2019s David\u2019s Sling system for \u202f1.3\u202fbillion shekels. \u201cWithout the Israeli capabilities,\u201d said an Israeli source familiar with the matter, \u201ctheir relative calm at the huge border with Russia would not exist. We hope the Defense Ministry and the Israeli government do not ignore the full picture as they push for further deals with Helsinki.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finnish food\u2011retail group S\u2011ryhm\u00e4 (S-Group) announced Wednesday that it is temporarily halting purchases of products of Israeli origin.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-147090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}