imgur: the simple image sharer  How Scarlett Johansson got in
the middle of the Israel-Palestine conflict   A new meme has
popped up on Twitter that features Scarlett Johansson
Photoshopped into a what appears to be scenes from disputed
territory in the West Bank.  How did she manage to get in the
middle of the complicated and decades-old conflict between
Israel and Palestine? She signed up to be SodaStream’s first
“global brand ambassador.”  The Israeli company, which makes
home soda machines and soda syrups, apparently operates a
factory located in hotly disputed territory in the West Bank.
People who support Palestinians in the conflict are taking
Johansson to task for agreeing to represent a company that owns
what they see as exploitive manufacturing facility in an illegal
settlement.  Especially fueling the fire is Johansson’s previous
relationship with Oxfam International, a humanitarian group that
positions itself as against trade from Israeli settlements under
the belief that it harms Palestinian righ