Israeli biscuits cause major scandal at Palestinian press conference

There was a press conference in the Al-Ram neighborhood Sunday morning, sponsored by the "Consumer Protection Association", to emphasize the importance of Palestinian Arabs buying Arab products rather than Israeli products. The name of the conference was "Palestinian Products First."

Speakers at the conference included the PA Minister of Communications, the head of the Consumer Protection Association, and the Under Secretary of Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs, as well as a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture.

During the conference, one of the attendees went to the head table and plopped down a box of Israeli biscuits, saying that these were the cookies being served at the hospitality table at the entrance of the meeting! She recognized them and retrieved the box from the kitchen.

The organizers scrambled to remove the offending box of biscuits. The head of the consumer protection  organization who organized the conference, Azmi Shyoukhi, claimed that the biscuit box was planted there "in order to sabotage the conference and to promote the products of the settlements in front of the cameras."

Al Quds newspaper confirmed that the cookies were indeed there, as someone innocently simply went to a local market to buy cookies to serve at the entrance without realizing their poisoned provenance.

After the story was published, the Al Quds reporter who wrote the story received a threatening phone call for daring to publicize such an embarrassing incident.

Note also that the PA department that guards against using Israeli goods is the Consumer Protection Association, presumably because of Jew-cooties.  Also note that the embarrassed official referred to the Israeli cookies as a "settlement product."