It seems that Sabar Bros are not just content with being supporters of injustice and being hypocrites (how dare they say they will not sell these blood-dates one Ramadhan and go completely against their word the next?!). They want to go that extra mile and are now a bunch of liars aswell.

Sabar Bros is my local shop and I was extremely disappointed that they had put money ahead of morals, and had gone out to stock Israeli dates even though they were quite adamant they wouldn't sell them this time round, so I decided to do some investigating.

I thought I should ring them first to see if maybe I could reason with them over the 'phone (they seem to be really on edge throughout Ramadhan - I think working around food and not being able to eat it really gets to them) but I always got the same response:

"Hello, Sabar Bros, how may I help you?"

"Assalaamualaikum, I was wondering, do you sell Israeli dates?"

"Yes..."

"Why? Don't you know the money goes to help kill Palestinians?"

"Sorry, we are busy and have a lot of customers" *Phone goes dead*

Now I did kinda feel for them, I mean answering a customer's concerns are obviously not that important especially when you know that you aren't going to make money out of it, so to make things easier for both parties I went along to the shop and talk to them face-to-face (I know, I'm helpful like that).

However, they had me confused with someone blind when they tried to explain why they are selling Israeli dates.

They explained how they didn't know how Israeli dates got into their shop. He said that one box came in by mistake (as if one big Israeli box just happened to be sitting there unnoticable with all those small Iranian dates packaging) and that they weren't doing it intentionally.

Now, I would've believed them if it wasn't for two things:

1) There seemed to be alot of old Israeli date boxes lying around outside the shop (yeah, they were never really that clean)

2) They had labelled some of the Israeli dates as Jordan dates to mislead people (they must think we're really stupid, seeing as it still said 'Made in Israel' on the side of the boxes)

When I mentioned these two points to them, things got interesting.

They proceeded to shout at me and say that I was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Errr no, you're selling dates whose profits go and support the apartheid state Israel, I'm pretty sure that's a big issue.

But I digress, let me finish my tale:
So they continued shouting at me, said that the Palestinians got what they deserved, blah blah blah, I shouldn't come back, yadda yadda yadda, and that they were going to keep selling them. End of.

Now I'm not sure about you, but the fact that really annoyed me (and man, are there loads or what!) was that they were actually proud of selling these dates.

What kind of Muslim shop would openly support Israel - a state which has been killing innocent people for years?

We can't let them get away with this and I for one am going to make sure that they know that I will continue to boycott their shop if they keep on selling Israeli blood-dates.

I hope you will do the same too.

Don’t be silent in the face of oppression – please 'phone them now and ask them why they are selling Israeli dates, and that you will boycott their shop unless they stop selling Israeli produce:

Sabar Bros
Tel: 01753 511050

215 Wexham Road
SLOUGH SL2 5JT

REMEMBER: Check whether your local shops are selling Israeli dates (Boycott all produce of Israel - including Carmel, King Solomon and Jordan River dates). Ask your local shops to support the boycott. You can download and print off a leaflet here: http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/4034/34/

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