Medjool dates from Israel have become the latest victim of BDS campaigners. Activists are sticking labels on the products in supermarkets encouraging customers to boycott Israel.

The sticker, in the colours of a Palestinian Flag, says “Boycott Israeli Apartheid. Free Palestine. www.palestinecampaign.org.”

The stickered product was spotted by a concerned member of the public in the Crouch End branch of Waitrose on 28 December.

UKLFI has written to Charlotte Farrell, the interim Head of Legal at Waitrose & Partners Head Office, to alert the supermarket to this.

In the letter, UKLFI points out that this interference with a product on display is a criminal offence under section 38 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Caroline Turner, director of UKLFI, said in her letter to Waitrose: “As you are no doubt aware, the placing of stickers on the dates is intended to cause economic loss to Waitrose, and to the Israeli producer of the dates, by the goods being shunned by members of the public. The stickers could also cause alarm or anxiety on the part of members of the public.”

Ms Turner went on to ask that Waitrose staff members remain “extremely vigilant” in ensuring that “no such interference with products from Israeli producers is taking place and to take immediate action against similar anti-Israel activity”.

This is not the first time Israeli products have been hit by BDS campaigners. Earlier this month, Sabra® Hummus was targeted, with fake anti-Israel shelf labels attached to supermarket shelves. The shelf labels said: “Apartheid Hummus. Buying this product helps support genocide. Since £19.48 Search BDS for more info.”

UKLFI wrote to the four major supermarkets that sell Sabra Hummus to warn them to be alert for these labels, and to remove them quickly.

Sabra Hummus had also been attacked by BDS stickers in another Waitrose store.

UKLFI encourages members of the public to report any such stickers to supermarket staff and to UKLFI, and to make sure to buy the superb Israeli Medjool dates.