Max Brenner has become an unfortunate target of Australian pro-Palestinian activists who want to get rid of the popular chocolate chain.
Now, The Australian explains that a new video has surfaced highlighting the ignorance of the boycott-divestment-sanctions (BDS) movement. Patrick Harrison, a spokesman for the Palestine Action Group, appears at 4:30 and confirms the movement’s small-mindedness to film maker Jeremy Moses.
According to the paper, PAG’s promotional material claimed that Max Brenner supports Israel, the IDF, and the torture and genocide of Palestinians.
But Mr Harrison appears in the video saying: “Max Brenner itself is a franchise. So financially speaking there isn’t really any connection between this Max Brenner store in particular and Israel. It’s become really a kind of cultural ambassador for Israel, this store . . .
Mr Harrison did not respond to calls from The Australian yesterday.
By that logic, other foreign companies with operations in Israel, like, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and McDonalds, are also “ambassadors” for Israel on some level, if not financially supportive of the Zionist entity. Which begs the question: Can the BDS supporters wash off their Windows and Whoppers?
Tell that to the U. of New South Wales community, where a Max Brenner franchise is due to open despite BDS opposition. The university condemned the movement’s anti-Semitic comments on Facebook.
There’s just no sugarcoating BDS hypocrisy and ignorance.
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Ignorance and Chocolate are bliss! Who would have thunk it?
Boycott chocolate?? They have got to be crazy! If you want to keep on having any semblance of a sex life, you better not even think of boycotting shoe stores, chocolate shops, and most definitely not flower shops:)
Hi there,
Jeremy Moses here. Thanks very much for the shout-out! I’m glad you found my video interesting.
Best regards,
Jeremy.
Send these young people on a “Birthright” one-way trip to Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, or any number of other Islamist states and they will see how chocolatey sweet and delicious freedom is in places like Australia, Israel, the USA, Canada, etc, by comparison These ignorant kids are being misled by their communist and Islamists comrades and professors who are indoctrinating these youth to totalitarianism – scapegoating Jews in the same way Hitler and Stalin once did to deliver their messages using propagandist hate campaigns like BDS and lies like IAW,
Good point about the BDS drones boycotting McDonalds. The obvious difference is McDonalds doesn’t have a Jewish name.
Please don’t refer to these nutcases as “pro-palestinian”…there’s NO SUCH THING as “pro-palestinian”…what they are is Anti-Israel or just Anti-Jew
Hi there, Patrick Harrison here. There’s no truth to the claim the movement ignores companies in Israel if they aren’t “Jewish”.
Boycotting Max Brenner has nothing to do with the identity of the company’s owners, just as the campaign to boycott the French firm Veolia for its operations in the occupied territories has nothing to do with the religion or race of its bosses.
It is about raising awareness of the Israeli government’s crimes in Palestine, and targeting companies involved in those crimes like Strauss (or their local franchises and operations).
Check out my post on the subject here: http://thawraeyewitness.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/why-boycott-max-brenner.html
Patrick, I’m curious whose territory Israel “occupies.” The land was Israel’s to begin with, before the current residents or their distant ancestors arrived. Jerusalem and surrounding lands were conquered about 30X, by Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Crusaders, etc.. How did a select bunch of Arabs magically acquire precedence? Because Jordan controlled the West Bank for 19 years? Gaza’s not occupied; the last Jew there was Gilad Shalit, who was happy to depart. 95% of Palestinians live under rule of the PA. If Israelis were all Muslims, would you still say the land is occupied? What if the conflict were Sunni/Shiite? Isn’t Judea really Jewish land occupied by Arabs? Obsessed much?