Google – AFP, 30 January 2014
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US actress
Scarlett Johansson poses during a photocall at the 70th Venice
Film Festival at
Venice Lido on September 3, 2013 (AFP/File, Tiziana Fabi)
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London — US
actress Scarlett Johansson has quit as global ambassador for Oxfam after the
aid group deemed the role "incompatible" with her promotion of an
Israeli firm that has a factory in the occupied West Bank.
Johansson,
29, appears in an advertisement for home drinks carbonation firm SodaStream,
which is due to air during the US Super Bowl on Sunday.
It has
already been seen more than 4.5 million times on the YouTube video-sharing
website.
The
Hollywood star has worked for Oxfam since 2005 but the British-based aid agency
said she had stepped down due to her role with SodaStream.
"Oxfam
has accepted Scarlett Johansson's decision to step down after eight years as a
global ambassador and we are grateful for her many contributions," the
charity said in a statement.
"While
Oxfam respects the independence of our ambassadors, Ms Johansson's role
promoting the company SodaStream is incompatible with her role as an Oxfam
global ambassador.
"Oxfam
believes that businesses such as SodaStream, that operate in settlements,
further the ongoing poverty and denial of rights of the Palestinian communities
that we work to support.
"Oxfam
is opposed to all trade from Israeli settlements, which are illegal under
international law.
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