…about Scarlett.

Yeah, she’s gorgeous to the point of near-impossibility, she’s divine, delightful, de-lovely and built like the collective fantasy collaboration from a million wet dreams. But that’s not why we’re here. No, not today.

Today we’re not drooling and lusting, that’s for tomorrow. Today its serious.

Our Scarlett (all men ‘own’ her; she’s said that’s ok) has been an ambassador for Oxfam for 8 years. And, as well as numerous other contracts with endorsing perfumes, clothing, shoes, blah, blah, red-carpet-blah, she is now the ‘face’ of soda-stream. Remember Soda-Stream? Do it yourself bubbles in a whole range of horrible, synthetic, plastic tasting mega-sweet drinks? I thought they died in 1973 when the last carbonated cartridge gave way to the reduction of the carbon footprint. But what do I know? And not only are they still going, they’re doing so well that they can afford a $4million advert during tonight’s Superbowl, with La Johansson sucking on a straw. I’ll just leave you with that image for a moment…

Ok. Wow.

Oxfam find this new role of Scarlett’s incompatible with their charity. Why? Do Soda-Stream manufacture arms? Produce suicide vests? Perform Female Genital Mutilation? No, Soda-Stream’s crime is that they’re Israeli. And Oxfam, if nothing else (and many, including me, would deeply question the ‘something elses’) are powerfully anti-Zionist. They claim that the Soda company, whose factory is built in a settlement in Palestine’s West Bank, is in breach of international law, just by being there.

I won’t go into the questions surrounding ‘land won in wars’, as every nation on the planet is allowed, rightly or wrongly, to keep land won. Except Israel. So never mind the Britishness of the Falklands, nor Gibralter, nor at one time half of the bleeding world, The West Bank, occupied by Israel in a war they didn’t start, in 1967, and partly given back, is some kind of ‘totally different status’.

Anyway, Soda-Stream employ hundreds of Palestinians in their factory, who work there happily, alongside Israelis, on equal pay terms and appreciate the prosperity. But because Oxfam are basically, a bunch of anti-semites, they’re ‘strongly opposed’ and boycott everything from the occupied territories.

The Mail on Sunday, which is no better than that shitty rag on any other day, has claimed ‘new insight’ into why Scarlett has abandoned Oxfam for Soda-Stream. Which they put down to money. Greed. Impoverished childhood. Money-grabbing (jew) bitch. Ok, not in so many words. But that’s the gist of their ‘suggestion’.

Which I find deeply insulting on Ms Johansson’s behalf. It trivialises what is an important message. That Scarlett stands by Israel and its efforts in Palestine. She really is not short of cash, to my knowledge. So to even imply such a thing is just typical of their right wing, reactionary attempts at defamatory speculation loosely disguised as ‘journalism’.

Never mind, Scarlett, we love you.
Oh boy, do we love you…

Happy sunday

A xxxx