• 1: Home
• 5: Boycott Israeli Goods
  • 5.1: Who Exports Israeli Goods
  • 5.2: Who Sells Israeli Goods
  • 5.3: Ban Settlement Goods Campaign
    • 5.3.1: Retailers risk prosecution for mislabelling produce from illegal Israeli settlements
    • 5.3.2: Press Release — The Palestinian General Delegation to the UK
    • 5.3.3: What's in a label?
    • 5.3.4: Call to lobby David Miliband about the banning of settlement produce in the UK
    • 5.3.5: The Campaign against Settlements Trade
    • 5.3.7: Meeting with Tesco
    • 5.3.8: New DEFRA advice on food labelling, 10 December 2009
  • 5.4: Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign
• 6: Complicit Firms
  • 6.1: Veolia
  • 6.2: Lev Leviev
  • 6.3: Ahava
• 7: EU-Israel Association Agreement Campaign
• 8: Cultural Boycott
  • 8.1: Palestinian Call for a Cultural Boycott of Apartheid Israel
  • 8.2: PACBI — Guidelines for applying the International Cultural Boycott of Israel
  • 8.3: Sample letter to send to artists/academics and others travelling to Israel or entering into cultural collaborations with Israel
  • 8.4: The Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame
  • 8.5: The cultural boycott: Leonard Cohen and beyond
  • 8.6: Open letter to the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, November 09
• 9: Academic Boycott
  • 9.1: Guidelines for Applying the International Academic Boycott of Israel
• 10: Sporting Boycott
• 11: Divestment Campaigns
• 12: Sanctions
• 13: Arms Trade Campaign
• 14: Trade Unions and Boycott
• 15: Students and Boycott
• 16: Faith Groups and Boycott
• 18: Action Alerts
  • 18.1: Free the anti-wall activists
  • 18.2: Boycott Israeli dates this Ramadan
• 43: Frequently Asked Questions

VEOLIA, ONE LESS CONTRACT, NOW THE NEXT ONE!!

The transportation branch of the French multinational corporation Veolia just lost a contract worth 750 millions euros in Bordeaux.

This contract was about the management of the biggest urban network in France. It went to Keolis, a subsidiary of SNCF.

The Greater Bordeaux local government said that its decision was based on commercial factors, but the implication of Veolia in a controversial tramway project in Jerusalem (the "Jerusalem light railway") provoked intense debates everywhere.

Indeed French corporations Veolia and Alstom have been called into question for several years because of their participation in a project to build a tramway in Jerusalem, designed to link West Jerusalem (Israel) with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. This contract has caused great controversy on the political ethics of Veolia.

The General Manager for France of Veolia Transport, Francis Grass, said that Veolia has "very important questions [...], the feeling that things are not done fairly" ... In fact, Veolia's involvement in the situation of apartheid has already lead to the loss of several contracts, and this is just the beginning.

BDS group Bordeaux
(The BDS campaign – it stands for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions — aims at isolating the state of Israel as long as it does not obey international law)
bdsbordeaux@gmail.com