Tag Archives: Coca Cola

Dec 7 2023

Debunking pathetic boycott Israel campaigns

So propaganda like this I see quite a lot. This was posted by someone from Denmark.

Its been shown both in the Muslim world, or by the extreme left and Muslims living in the west.

Its highlighting that a group of well known brands are giving money to Israel, and by stopping business to them will “help the cause of Palestine”

Lets dismantle this.

Mcdonalds. They are an American company of course. There’s Mcds in Israel, who employ Jewish and Arab staff. And not in the Palestinian territories but a lot of Arab Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan and more. They operate as a franchise. I don’t recommend you support McDonalds in the Middle East, as there are thousands of smaller restaurant businesses run by Jews and Arabs that are loads better.

KFC. This is an American company, also operates as a franchise. This opened in Israel some years ago. Then they shut. Not because of political reasons. They just didn’t do very well as there are plenty of local fast food places.

Coca Cola. I wrote on this a little while back. You can get Hebrew branded Coke made in Bnei Barak (Israeli city) or Arabic brand coke made in Ramallah (Palestinian city) Its made under licence and sold most parts of the world. If you want you could get some kind of generic cola drink instead.

I’ve not been to Ramallah. But its were the Palestine authority government is for Fatah (not the same as Hamas who run Gaza) This picture above is from Ramallah. On the left some coke is being delivered in a van (Palestinian cars have white or green licence plates, Israelis have yellow) On the right, there is a big poster with some Arab lads drinking Coke.

Starbucks. US company. Tried running in Israel and it failed. Too much competition. Israelis would rather support their own cafes. I think they do ok in UAE and Saudi though.

Nestle. They are based in Switzerland. I think their products are sold in Israel, but Israelis tend to buy their own home grown food.

Cadburys. This is a British company started in Birmingham by a Christian family. I’ve never seen Cadburys chocolate in Israel, except in Arab shops where it had Arabic language versions made in Egypt and imported.

Israel makes a lot of technology products. HP, Apple, Intel, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Google and Microsoft have significant research and development done in Israel. As well as indigenous tech companies like Waze, Amdocs, Monday.com, NICE systems are Israel start ups.

If you want to boycott Israel you will have to throw away your favourite gadgets.

Like it or not. Israel is here to stay. Israel’s Messiah is also coming back to Jerusalem one day. Stop hating and get used to it.

Aug 14 2013

Support Jews and Arabs in Israel, buy Coca cola!!

One of the common announcements by the BDS Crowd (thats Boycott, Divestment and Sanction)   is to rally around to get people to cease doing business with Israel to ‘stop the occupation’

Its funny that the word ‘occupation’ seeing as Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria for thousands of years, places like Bethlehem, Jericho, Hebron, Shiloh, etc have Hebrew names and and well known in the bible and real history books.

One of the favourite targets for the BDS movement is Coca Cola being ‘Zionist company’  Some more interesting hoaxes against the Coca Cola company http://www.coca-colacompany.com/contact-us/coca-cola-rumors-facts

This is an interesting idea, and actually not buying Coca Cola actually hurts Arab people and Palestinian people, here’s why:

P1060640I went to the Arab convenience store near my house here in the southern most tip of Jerusalem.   Here is what I bought:-

This Can of Coke is in Hebrew, and its made in Benei Barak, a Jewish city outside of Tel Aviv that has a mostly Ultra Orthodox community.  Its certified Kosher too.  Coca Cola also make soda in the Palestinian city of Ramallah.   However I couldn’t buy this from this shop, but there are other Arabic labeled products from other Palestinian cities.    A company called United Beverage company in Ramallah are licenced to make Coke for Arabic speaking people in this region.

Here’s their official web site of the National Beverage Company who are licenced to sell Coca Cola for Arabic speaking customers:- http://www.nbc-pal.com/

Here below is the Hebrew canning operation of the Coca Cola factory which is on the side of a big motorway, rather use my own photos, I nicked this off of google.

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This can of Pepsi is in Arabic and marked as for sale to the West Bank and Gaza market, – but – its made in Greece!!

Coke and Pepsi seem to often alternate between using 330ml cans in the tall skinny type or fatter traditional ones.  I’m not quite sure why.

These boycott lists of so called ways to help Palestinian people are always unfair and inaccurate, and often use any kind layoff from the financial changes in the last year as a so call ‘win’ for the BDS movement.   The BDS movement’s goals are based on malice towards Israel and not towards positive ways to help Arab people anywhere.  A better way to help Palestinian people would be to maybe manufacture and market the popular Arabic drink Sahalab to UK and western nations, particularly maybe sell it in Arab and Asian restaurants in Europe.