#BDS Needed: General Electric to set up new Israeli R&D center

"General Electric (NYSE: GE), one of the world's largest companies, will open its a multidisciplinary R&D center in Israel, its eighth R&D center in the country, at an investment of $3-5 million. The R&D center will engage in research in medical devices, water, and clean energy.

The R&D center will be set up in Haifa, near the center of GE subsidiary GE Healthcare, which has hundreds of employees who work on medical imaging systems."

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#BDS: Palestinian Minister slams General Electric for supporting settlement expansion

Palestinian minister of religious affairs Dr. Taleb Abu Sha'ar strongly denounced the American company General Electric for supporting and participating in a settlement project in Abu Ghunaim Mount between occupied Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Dr. Abu Sha'ar in a press release on Thursday said that this company in cooperation with Ligon company took part in the establishment of a waste water treatment facility in Abu Ghunaim area at a cost of about 30 million shekels. 

The minister expressed his strong dismay at what he described as the Zio-American collusion which General Electric is involved in, stressing that this company violated the international law when it took such step and reflected its hostility to the Palestinians.