Times writes whole article on Starbucks ‘running out of steam’ – without mentioning boycott over Gaza

Palestine is still the issue – but not if you read/watch the ‘mainstream’ media

The Murdoch-owned Times ran a story at the weekend analysing the struggles of the Starbucks coffee chain. Yet in its twenty-nine paragraphs and around 1,600 words, the article mentions Gaza or Palestine not once:

This omission comes despite the fact that the company has admitted that the global boycott of Starbucks over its actions around Israel’s genocide (neither of those words mentioned either) in Gaza has hurt its profitability and share price – as it has those of other global brands complicit in the slaughter of Palestinian civilians, mainly women and children – a slump to which many attributed the firm’s decision to remove its then-chief executive in August.

Instead, the Times attributes Starbucks’s woes to issues like customers getting ‘fed up of long queues’ and failing to ‘gear for total success when it came to mobile orders’.

The article does mention the ongoing industrial dispute in the US that has led to a series of strikes by members of the Starbucks Workers United union for increased pay and against the company’s union-busting attempts – but leaves out the fact that the ongoing global boycott over Gaza stems from the firm’s decision to sue the same union for a social media post expressing solidarity with Palestinians against Israel’s genocide.

The Times erasure of Gaza from its Starbucks analysis came in the same couple of days as the Guardian‘s attempt to whitewash ‘Labour’ PM Keir Starmer’s hard right politics.

Palestine is still the issue and will remain so until Israel ceases its genocide in Gaza and its war criminal leaders and military – and western leaders who have colluded in it – are put on trial, no matter how much Israel and those same western leaders try to mask it behind a fog of other direct and proxy wars.

But the UK ‘mainstream’ media are just as involved in the airbrushing of Israel’s crimes – and the effectiveness of the global anti-genocide movement.

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