Palestine supporters are staging daily protests outside a Manchester shop which sells Israeli cosmetics using minerals stolen from the Dead Sea area of Palestine.

The protesters have managed to close the shop, Kedem on King Street in central Manchester, four times in the last week.

When a protest started on Wednesday last week Kedem shut within 12 minutes. It closed again after several hours of protesting on Saturday and Sunday. 

A counter protest was staged by Zionists on Monday but the Palestine supporters still managed to close the shop early.

“We plan to go there daily from now on. We will stay there each day till the shop closes. Boycott actions are the only way that we can make any difference,” said Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Norma Turner.

“We can hurt their economy and they feel it.”

Action against Kedem shops is spreading. Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign was set to meet today to plan protests at Kedem’s shop in Leith, near Edinburgh.

The group will demonstrate from 1pm on Saturday at Edinburgh’s Foot of the Mound.

Manchester campaigners meet daily at noon onwards in King Street.

On Saturday they will meet at noon at Piccadilly Gardens for a “rolling picket” of shops and companies identified as being complicit in the Israeli occupation, moving down Market Street before staging a mass rally outside Kedem on King Street.