Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1918
Sale of Jezreel Valley land and tenant displacement
The family’s sale of extensive absentee-owned land in the Jezreel Valley to Zionist purchasing organizations was followed by the eviction or relocation of Palestinian Arab tenant farmers. British Mandate authorities upheld the transactions under the land laws then in force, while the social consequences remain contested and historically significant.
1915
Wartime grain hoarding and price speculation
Michel Sursock was accused of withholding grain during the First World War famine in Lebanon and demanding prices substantially above prewar levels. The allegation became one of the most damaging episodes in the family’s historical reputation.