BDS is hurting McDonald’s, Starbucks, and other supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Keep up your activism and hit the Zionists where it hurts the most: their wallets.
Did you stop getting your morning coffee from Starbucks in solidarity with the Palestinians? Did you stop ordering from McDonald’s to convey to the Israeli terrorists that you won’t be supporting their terrorism with your hard-earned money? Did you stop buying from the other numerous Israel-supporting corporations because you don’t approve of their role in aiding and abetting the Israeli genocide in Gaza?
If your answer to these questions is yes, then congratulations, your activism is bearing fruit. The Zionists and their funders are reeling. The Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions, or BDS, regime is having the intended effect and hitting the Zionists where it hurts most: their wallets.
McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski took to LinkedIn to write about how his genocide-supporting business was having a “meaningful business impact” because you have chosen to boycott his genocide-supporting business.
“[S]everal markets in the Middle East and some outside the region are experiencing a meaningful business impact due to the war and associated misinformation that is affecting brands like McDonald’s,” he cried on January 4.
He then tried to manipulate Muslim consumers in Muslim countries — who have been the leading voices for BDS — by talking about how his genocide-supporting business has Muslim franchise owners and employs Muslims.
“This is disheartening and ill-founded. In every country where we operate, including in Muslim countries, McDonald’s is proudly represented by local owner operators who work tirelessly to serve and support their communities while employing thousands of their fellow citizens. That local community connection is the genius of the McDonald’s System.”
He failed to mention how his genocide-supporting “McDonald’s System” distributes free meals to the Israeli terrorists and citizens as they have gone about killing the starving Muslims — and Christians — in Gaza and the West Bank for over three months straight.
Starbucks is the other major brand hit hard by the pro-Palestine protesters. The company sued its workers union after the union’s Twitter account posted a solidarity message for Palestine in the wake of the Palestinian resistance attack on October 7.
The Seattle-based coffee brand, with an unbridled enthusiasm for supporting genocide, recorded a staggering $11 billion loss in December.
However, the Starbucks CEO feels that his company is being hurt due to “misrepresentation on social media” and not because of its support for an apartheid state that has kept 2.3 million people under siege since 2006 and has been relentlessly bombarding them with the most incendiary explosives for over three months running, while stopping food, water, electricity, and medicine from going into their besieged enclave.
“We see protestors influenced by misrepresentation on social media of what we stand for,” Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan wailed in a letter to partners on December 19.
His message included other gems like: “Our stance is clear. We stand for humanity.” And: “In my daily meditation, I pray for peace — immediately.”
Curiously, the letter makes precisely zero mention of Gaza, Palestine, or Israel. One can be forgiven for wondering if Mr Narasimhan prays for peace in some violent movie franchise or the next installment of an Alan Moore graphic novel.
Hit by poor sales, Starbucks is scaling down its operations in Egypt. There were reports of the company shutting down its operations in Morocco entirely before an announcement that it was merely undertaking a “reorganistion of business” in the country, whatever that means.
Kuwait, which has always maintained a safe distance from the Zionist regime, is making the businesses linked to Israel feel economic pain. According to a late November Reuters report: “In Kuwait City on Tuesday evening [21 November], a tour of seven branches of Starbucks, McDonald’s and KFC found them nearly empty.”
The same report had an instructive message from a 31-year-old Cairo resident, Reham Hamed: “I feel that even if I know this will not have a massive impact on the war, then this is the least we can do as citizens of different nations so we don’t feel like our hands are covered in blood.”
Reham’s message is one to live by.
Keep boycotting Israeli products and every company that supports Israel. Here’s a list of companies profiting from the genocide of the Palestinian people. Boycott them all.
Hit them where it hurts the most till the apartheid regime ends and Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
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I've been boycotting both, and I actually like Starbucks' coffee (I know coffee people tell me it's bad, but I know what coffee people say is good and I don't like it, but oh well. Small price to pay.)