Firms admit losses or even cut ties with Israel
The chief executives of food chains McDonalds and Starbucks have admitted that the global boycott of their stores and products because of the firms’ support for Israel is hitting their profits. McDonalds in Israel provided free meals to Israeli soldiers participating in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians, while Starbucks has sued a union representing some Starbucks workers – the firm has engaged in union-busting efforts – for a post on the union’s social media account expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
Other firms have suffered similarly and have even cut ties with Israel because of widespread grassroots anger over the genocide in Gaza. Swiss-based shipping firm Kuehne & Nagel has ceased transporting materials for Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems and Japanese giant Itochu has announced it will end all collaboration with the same Israeli firm by the end of this month, citing the International Court of Justice’s damning findings against Israel last month in the case brought by South Africa.
January also saw controversy in Ireland after Dublin airport closed its Starbucks but continued to sell the firm’s products under a different brand.
The longstanding ‘boycott, divestment and sanctions’ (BDS) campaign of peaceful resistance to Israel’s apartheid and illegal occupation rattles Israel to such an extent that it set up a specific government department to combat and discredit it. Now, with the Houthi blockade of Israel-bound shipping hitting Israel’s economy, BDS is biting even deeper.
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Let’s hope we see the tipping point as we witnessed in the early 80s with the brutal Soith African Apartheid Regime when it went from companies like Barclays doubling down that they would continue collaboration with criminals, racists and murderers to realising their business bottom line was being destroyed.
This is a good start. Yes, it might be fragile but other companies might look and see how it is welcomed by the youth.
You should support BDS against Israel. https://jacobin.com/2021/05/boycott-divestment-sanctions-bds-israel-occupation-palestine
Wonder what’d happen if the zionist, racist, careerist, (far right of) centrist smarmerist party was boycotted by its non-zionist, non-racist, non-careerist, leftist members…🤔
I’m reckoning that’s his stated aim, to lose all these members and voters. I know I will never vote for that party until I can see it’s a moderate democratic socialist party operating in the best interests of the 99%.
Yup contentious – credit to MS Editorial ( here
“Scrapping charitable status for elite private schools. And scrapping tuition fees that leave students with a lifetime of debt.
“Removing the two-child benefit cap that keeps so many families in poverty. Restoring the cap on bankers’ bonuses.
“Increasing income tax for the top 5 per cent of earners. Imposing a wealth tax. Offering free universal childcare.
“Taking key utilities in water and energy into public ownership. Ending outsourcing in the National Health Service.
“Abolishing the House of Lords. Getting rid of universal credit. Special taxation for the digital technology giants.
“A compassionate immigration system. Support for Ultra-Low Emission Zones.
“And now the green prosperity plan.
“This is, to be clear, not a list of every reactionary position Starmer has taken. That would have to include his authoritarianism and war-mongering too.
“It merely identifies issues on which he or his front-bench team promised one thing only to renege. In non-policy fields, one could add his broken pledge to unite Labour.
“The whole list points in one direction — towards appeasement of the City, support for neoliberal economic orthodoxy, indifference to social needs, promotion of wider inequality, and lack of interest in really changing society at all.”
‘Bloodbath’ fears as Israel prepares to invade Rafah is the headline in today’s Guardian.
That is an incredible headline considering the numbers killed already.
That is an incredible headline considering the numbers killed already.
But with Israel allowed to carry out their plan unhindered, is anybody surprised?
Not content with having it as simple as the Gazans being fish in a barrel, it’s now 98% of the original amount of fish…but in a thimble.
Of course, we’re already prepared for the Israeli excuse(s) when the inevitable happens.
We KNOW what’s coming from them. It’s how their genocide-enabling governments in the West attempt to absolve themselves that is gruesomely – but inevitably – anticipated.