McDonald’s latest business titan to face impact of pro-Israel stance
The Cradle | January 5, 2024
The CEO of McDonald’s, Chris Kempczinski, said on 4 January that several markets in West Asia and some outside of the region were facing a “meaningful business impact” due to the war between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.
Kempczinski also said that “associated misinformation” about the company has been a reason for the financial issues the brand is facing, and that the misinformation surrounding McDonald’s was “disheartening and ill-founded.”
Western Israeli-linked fast food chains, including McDonald’s and Starbucks, have seen large grassroots boycott campaigns emerge over pro-Israel stances and alleged financial ties with Israel.
“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,” Kempczinski said in a social media post. “That local community connection is the genius of the McDonald’s system.”
West Asian locations of McDonald’s are part of the company’s international developmental licensed markets division, a section that generates around 10 percent of the company’s revenue.
McDonald’s franchisee in Malaysia, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Lionhorn Pte Ltd, filed a lawsuit against BDS Malaysia, accusing the group of “defamation,” and is seeking damages of over $1 million. Meanwhile, the Israel franchisee has supported the Israeli army by supplying its forces with free meals, according to BDS, “during the ongoing genocide of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.”
Starbucks, another Western, Israeli-linked company, has also come out to say that the negative views brought upon the brand have been “influenced by misrepresentation on social media of what we stand for.”
In December 2023, the losses of Starbucks, a Seattle-based company, stood at $11 billion in value during the last quarter, due to Palestinian solidarity boycotts and employee strikes.
The company tried to bounce back on losses by implementing a scheme during the holiday season that would allow consumers to receive a free holiday cup with every purchase.
When announcing the gimmick in mid-November last year, the company’s market share crashed by 8.96 percent, accounting for billions in losses, the lowest the company has experienced since 1992.
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Revisionist History Books Banned by Amazon
By Michael Hoffman • Unz Review • August 25, 2018
On August 13, 2018 Amazon banned Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was published in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along with the much larger study, Judaism Discovered, (sold by Amazon since 2008), it has had an international impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book circulating on the Amazon Kindle.
Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly important for the free circulation of books because it bypasses borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on mail to overseas destinations several years ago (eliminating economical surface mail).
Amazon has also banned The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic (sold by Amazon since 2010).
These volumes maintain a high standard of scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews by Amazon customers, are free of hatred and bigotry and have sold thousands of copies on Amazon. Out of the blue we were told that suddenly “Amazon KDP” discovered that the books are in violation of Amazon’s “content guidelines.” Asking for documentation of the charge results in no response. It is enough that the accusation has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved innocent, although how proof of innocence is presented is anyone’s guess. There is no appeals process. This is what is known as “Tech Tyranny.”
There is a nationwide purge underway that amounts to a new McCarthyism — blacklisting and banning politically incorrect speech and history books under the rubric of “hate speech” accusations, initiated in part by two Zionist thought police organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It’s a flimsy pretext for censoring controversial scholarly books that can’t be refuted.
In addition to our books being hate-free, we note that there are hundreds of hate-filled Zionist and rabbinic books brimming with ferocious bigotry for Palestinians, Germans and goyim in general, which are sold by Amazon. … continue
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Any company or individual business owner can expect lost revenue for publicly supporting genocide. Israeli or otherwise. It’s bad enough President Biden does. Strangely, Biden and Democratic Party leaders still believe Biden will get reelected. At least in public. But judging by past elections that is not as strange as it may seem. Why would Biden sacrifice potentially millions of votes in an reelection year by supporting Israeli genocide? Unless he was told by the vote fixers that the fix is in? Especially since James Comer is hot on Biden’s tail?
I think that, with or without the use of Smartmatic and Hammer & Scorecard illegal vote tallying, Biden stands little chance of winning in November. And that’s what worries me. Will the cabal of permanent bureaucrats in Washington and New York decide it’s too risky to hold the 2024 presidential election? Will they create a pretext that enables Biden to suspend US elections? The Eastern Establishment are desperate to impose fascism in the United States. So why wouldn’t they? They backed Hitler up until 1938 didn’t they?
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It is very difficult to show how much we despise the Israeli genocide.
The US in the form of G W Bush gave the world the dichotomy, “You are either with us or against us.” He did not allow for neutrality.
So every opportunity to demonstrate that WE are against them, Israel, US, UK we must seize.
If the locals want to change their names and still serve the same (expensive) rubbish, if they want to openly declare that they to abhor the Israeli massacres and war crimes, then I am sure that the customers will flock to their businesses.
Yes, the Jewish apologists will attack them, yes they will face “anti-semitic” accusations, yes banks and institutions will de-bank them, but they will proudly face their God knowing they did the right thing. How anyone can face the afterlife having defended and supported this horrendous crime is beyond my understanding.
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