• apocalypticat@lemmy.world
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    Reasons to boycott:

    Supporting genocide in Gaza; Supporting starvation wages; Slave labor in supply chains; Animal cruelty; Decimation of local businesses; Unhealthy processed food; And so on …

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    Their site seems to be down at the moment, and that page hasn’t been cached by the archive sites yet :/ Never mind, it’s back.

    How much of this is about boycotting and how much is it about Israelis suffering financial straits in this multi-front genocide & war?

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      How does Israel’s economy come into play here? This is about Middle Eastern people boycotting a bunch of American franchises and other stuff in (sometimes misguided) solidarity with Gaza.

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        Oh my mistake. I took the article’s title to mean that this is about US restaurants in Israel itself. The website was down when I wrote it, so I couldn’t read the article and didn’t know any better.