2015-03-11

Well here's a company I'll no longer do business with in the near future - RE/MAX.

Those purveyors of apartheid them.

https://www.popularresistance.org/pressure-grows-on-us-firm-selling-homes-in-israels-settlements/

Last fall, the anti-war group Codepink launched an international campaign targeting the real estate franchise, RE/MAX International, for its maitenance of an Israeli branch that sells and rents homes in Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank.
 But wait, there's more!

report submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2013 explains that the Colorado-based company plays an active role in its international franchises.
Richard Falk, the paper’s author and then a UN special rapporteur on Palestine, noted that RE/MAX International provided its franchises with brand recognition, ongoing training and various resources. His report indicated that RE/MAX was handling properties in nine Israeli settlements during 2013.

The UN report asserts that RE/MAX International, headquartered in Denver, can be held responsible for its franchises’ violations of international law.
The violations involve helping to transfer the population of an occupying power into the territory that it occupies. Falk also concluded that the company is vulnerable to civil litigation in the United States.


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