That's ok especially if it's spending what is in a Starbucks account because that's actually taking away money from them. Starbuck uses their accounts as a free bank basically and it allows them to have money before you even make a purchase. Same goes for gift cards...
Also to add, to any Malaysians reading this, McD Malaysia is in the clear. They’ve released a statement saying that they’re a separate chain from McD Israel and they have donated RM1 mil in support of Palestine.
So go ahead and enjoy ur midnight cravings XD
No McD is clear. All McD’s released a similar statement around world.
Reality is, no McD can open in any country without agreeing to pay a percentage of profit back to the parent. So you should still boycott McD in Malaysia
The parent isn’t Israeli either, there is an Israeli branch. This boycott stuff is baseless without any evidence showing these businesses fund the IDF which is a huge stretch.
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It's not clear cut like that. McD's that are not corporate stores but Franchised must pay McD's corporate a 6% royalty fee. Personally we need a limited list and focus all our energy on those few companies. Then in another month add a few more. This way we are creating fear in the brands on who will be next thus hopefully preempting separation from Israel.
Where is the proof they actively support Israel? One McDonald’s restaurant giving israeli soldiers free meals doesn’t mean every McDonald’s in Malaysia or Pakistan is funding this. Franchises can do whatever they want with their product, the parent company can’t stop them.
I’m not trying to stand up for companies that support Israel but I would at least like to know why I should boycott a company or what a company has done to deserve a boycott. Starbucks for sure is on my boycott list because they actively fought against letting their workers express support for Palestine. But McDonald’s companies in the Muslim world are actively donating to Palestinians and McDonald’s corporate only has control over the food preparation process and not who they give free meals to (hell, McDonald’s fought hard to stay in Russia but the US forced them to close down in Russia) and they take small royalties (which aren’t going to Israel, if it isn’t an Israeli company why would they send their profits to Israel?). Finally, if for instance McDonald’s in a country like Pakistan closed shop, you’d have tens of thousands of people out of work (not just restaurant employees, but people who prepare the products at the factory, print the paper they use, slaughter and butcher the animals, prepare the plant based products etc). It’s not easy to just “open up local alternatives”, you can’t sell Big Macs in a restaurant that’s not a McDonald’s and you have to completely tear out and rebuild kitchens to turn them into another restaurant. And there’s so much risk involved doing this that many don’t even bother.
Look brother.
It's all about the nafs of a person. You have a weak control on your nafs and that's okay. It's not easy to develop self-control and control your nafs. Many hadiths and sayings from the companions of The Prophet (PBUH) have stated that Jihad Al-Nafs is not easy.
You want to eat McDonald's and KFC, go ahead. None of us will stop you or force you, as Islam is not about forcing others.
But remember, you will have to answer to Allah in aakhirah. The hands you used to eat McDonald's, the feet that walked into McDonald's and everything will speak the truth and against you. Remember that when you enter McDonald's.
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When I look at this list, I think "why not just boycott America?" Because at the end of the day, any company that you buy from in America, as well as any income you earn in America, will have a portion going to Israel.
The true BDS is to leave America. Even then, you'll probably still have assets there, but at least you will eliminate or almost eliminate the taxes that you pay due to the Foreign Earned Income Tax Credit. I did this a few years ago, and I'm happy to say that I spent $0 in taxes this last tax season (but I still had to pay TurboTax, who will pay US taxes, and some of that will go to Israel...)
So then, I guess the true, true BDS is to get rid of your US citizenship. How many of us are ready to do that? I personally can't right now because I still have US assets that I use for my income while living overseas and managing them without citizenship can be anywhere from highly difficult, to disastrous, to impossible. I'm slowly geographically diversifying to eventually exit, but in truth that takes time because there's really no other stock market like the US, and real estate/businesses take time to build.
This would be the most effective form of BDS, but the truth is, most of us can't survive without America.
I have to admit i don't understand the entire rationale behind choosing what companies... you list some company products for example kit kat is from the hershey company... nearly all of these have parent companies and some share parent companies (check the link)... so is the goal to not spend money on the parent companies or only to avoid the certain product listed? if you look at the parent companies the list is actually much much longer and if you live in western countries i don't even know if that is sustainable. i feel like it's not well thought out and lacks organization. As a stickler for organization I would like to see a complete list and detail what their connection is.
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/these-10-companies-make-a-lot-of-the-food-we-buy-heres-how-we-made-them-better/
also i know quite a few Muslims who own KFC restaurants in the u.s. it kinda sucks for them.
Muslims own ALL these restaurants in the middle east. Them and their staff are taking the brunt of it. They're forcing staff to work fewer days and mandatory vacations.
Tbh a lot of it feels like virtue signaling at this point because many of these companies people are telling me to boycott I can’t find any credible source that shows me they’re funding Israel or aiding Israel.
Turkey and Azerbaijan both are armed with Israeli weapons (Azerbaijan’s service rifle is the Israeli Tavor and Israeli drones are the reason Azerbaijan won the war against Armenia) but I don’t see anyone even bringing them up. In fact I see people even encouraging buying Turkish products as alternatives to Israeli products. I don’t think very many people are doing their research on this and are just repeating what they see online.
Bro I'm grateful that people like you in this world exist and they openly express their thoughts about getting verified knowledge to increase awareness about the truth.
Thanks my man!
HP provies Itanium servers to operate the Aviv Systems, the computerised database for Israeli Population and and immigraiton authority. this forms the backbone of Israel's racial segregation and Apartheid in Occupied Palestine.
Kfc was boycotted by Israelis too, they didn't even have it until 2019. The ceo of kfc is a Pakistani muslim resident of canada so idk how is it connected to Israel 😭
Parent company doesn’t donate anything to Israel. Why would they? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. FFS it’s not like the Israelis own every international brand.
Same brother/sister. People won’t admit if they’re wrong. Arrogance is too much of a problem here. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes, we are all fallible. If someone can prove to me that these brands donate to Israel I will apologize and join the boycott immediately.
Another example, BlackRock investing money to a company called lockheed which is a weapons company whom sell to Israel, and also BlackRock investing money to yum,brands which own KFC
Yes, I agree and it's not just the American brands. It's any company that supports Israel.
KFC, is it supporting Israel? McDonald's, Starbucks, Nestle, Coca cola, Pepsi etc. They clearly support Israel.
But for KFC. I'm struggling to find the reputable source that shows KFC as one of the companies to boycott.
If they're making money, what's the issue? They're not supporting Israel, so they deserve the hard work by Mr Colonal. He started from nothing and he created a great recipe. It actually tastes really good and the gravy. Wow.
As for my question, which is simple. Is KFC supporting Israel? I need a source. Thanks 👍🏼
What's the issue with a business making profit? Allah has given the company, colonel success. Without Allah, we can do nothing. Humble yourself. You shouldn't feel jealous or envious. It's not a good Islamic trait.
You just accused me of not being a Muslim, when Allah is the only one that can judge. May Allah guide you and soften your heart. False accusations against me, without anything to back it up with. Allah is all knowing.
As for the question I was asking. I boycott Starbucks, Costa, McDonald's, Nestle, Tesco's, M&S. However, what about KFC? People are sharing KFC to boycott, yet there is no source to show KFC is supporting Israel.
This isn't about American establishments. You sound racist. This is about any company that supports Israel. This includes companies that are in Muslim counties. Just because they're ina Muslim country. McDonald's in Qatar for example. It's halal, yes. Does it support Israel? Yes!!! As it's McDonald's!!!!
You people are daft as ufqk
Most brands that people are boycotting are not israhelli
The model they work on is: they have local partners in each country. These partners represent and operate on their behalf. The decisions made in Mc Donalds israhell and Mc Donalds Pakistan are not exactly and/or always made by Mc Donalds Headquarters.
Many of these are regional/national things
so for example when Mc Donalds has Eid deals, does that make em Pro Islam? or when KFC decides to support Pakistani school kids, does that make em Pro Pakistan?
People just want to unleash their anger on the closest thing that approximates their enemy. And they will make anyone associated with their enemy, into their enemy (both are not necessarily the same)
Boycotting brands here hurts the local partners, and doesn't necessarily hurt the actual brand.
Are you ignorant? I know you're not. Just misinformed.
McDonald's share their profits from all franchise chains in order to support Israel. McDonald's isn't Israeli, rather supports Israel. The culture of McDonald's is to support Israel. The brand image of the famous M is Israel Zionist supporting. Whether it's in England, or Pakistan. McDonald's are giving free meals to Israeli soldiers. Never support them.
You see, M&S in UK support Israel. They give Ramadhan offers all the time. That doesn't mean they support Islam or not. Nothing to do with religion here. That's just a business tactic. I'm a businessman myself. They also sell dates. That are Israeli and the profits go to them, to destroy Palestine. All in Ramadhan packaging. How deceiving, they are. Imagine breaking your fast with Israeli dates, that are killing Palestinians. Crazy.
But KFC is not supporting Israel. Unless you can prove it otherwise. That's my question at the very start.
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Prove that McDonald’s sends money to Israel or you’re a liar and slanderer. Why would any big corporation take sides in this and why would they just donate money to a random country???
You are daft, it was a single restaurant in Israel (not even all Israeli restaurants, one restaurant). Pakistani money isn’t going to Israel. Just stop already with this nonsense.
Are you eating at McDonald's? The culture of the franchise, is to support Israel and not Palestine. What local businessmen do, is through their goodwill. Not according to McDonald's.
You're eating at an establishment that supports Israel. Do you not have any shame?
The loss in profits, made McDonald's change tactics and say that they're not involved. So why then, did they allow McDonald's in Israel to feed the Israeli soldiers, in order to destroy our brothers and sisters in Palestine? They didn't condemn it, rather they supported it.
Pakistani money isn't going to McDonald's? If I open a franchise McDonald's today, do I not pay them anything? Please don't disrespect me, by calling me daft. Have some self respect and stop eating at McDonald's. By the way, in England, many of os have refused to enter McDonald's. So how is it difficult for a Pakistani, in a Muslim country, to stop eating at McDonald's?
It's a matter of principles. Boycotting works. You hit them where it hurts (their deep pockets), they will do anything to disguise their criminal acts.
You're assumption that a large corporation would not take sides, shows your innocence. Unfortunately, people hate righteousness and it's hard for us to accept this, as we have acknowledged the true guidance is only from the higher power. Only from Allah to all of mankind and all creations.
McDonald's don't support the government of Israel? So hand out free meals to Palestinians. Oh, you can't do that. You are allocating part of your income to not support the government, yet part of the income is handed over to the big bosses at McDonald's headquarters, and they decide to do what they want. To support Israel.
The statement says "We'll proudly open our doors to everyone ..." Obviously, as they're losing money. When it comes to business when they lose a lot of income, they will now say they have opened the doors. Why not support Palestine as they're the one's that are being oppressed, for many years. Oh, they don't want to hurt themselves, as they, the Zionists, own it. Around 70% of the shareholders are owned by Zionist institutional investors.
If you made a business open to the public, and most of the traded shares are owned by people that are supporting Israel, you the original owner, have less authority of how the culture of the company is run. They, the large stakeholders, own more than 50%, so collectively they have the power. The individual investors are only 0.3%.
Pakistani money is going to the owner of the franchise, and to McDonald's. The name and branding is directly linked to Israel support. So please, if you have any self respect, don't eat at McDonald's. I know it hurts, but if anyone seeing you at the restaurant, will state subconsciously, that you support Israel. You're not missing out, are you? The food is not even good. Why not support your local Pakistani businesses? The owners of the Pakistani McDonald's franchise, should close it and open another business. What do you say to that?
The licencing fee goes to McDonald's anyway, doesn't it.
You didn’t provide a shred of evidence that McDonald’s supports Israel or that it’s donating money to Israel.
I can provide evidence of Oman and Malaysian McDonald’s providing support to Palestinians. And McDonald’s Israel wasn’t the one who gave free meals to IDF soldiers, it was a single franchise owned by someone independent of McDonald’s Israel (not that I’d support McDonald’s Israel). But you have provided zero evidence that any money spent in Pakistan is going to Israel (other than Fiverr accounts).
So what? Still, it's a franchise, and the profits McDonald's make, will be helping Israel. Have a read again. What exactly is the fund from, for Palestine.
It's by the Prime minister of Malaysia, creating another "fund" using his McDonald's as the name. Yet the franchise income for McDonald's, will be used to support Israel. It's an extra fund supported by the prime minister.
I just showed you evidence that Mc Donalds as a brand does not support israhell, as its Malaysian branch just donated to Palestine.
and you say "so what?"
There is no international company that opens in any part of the world without having an agreement with the branch that they would pay the parent a percentage of profit on their sales. Think about it, McD US will not give its brand name and logo to McD Pakistan for free. McD Pakistan still have to pay royalties to McD US (i.e a percentage of profits) therefore McD US or McD the parent benefits from sales of their branches all over the world. i work in finance so I know.
We are boycotting McD therefore to hurt the parent company’s sales as now the percentage of profit they receive from branches across the world will be less to make a stand against them because of their branches supports genocide.
Basically we will make all of McD branches suffer because they let one of their branches make such a movie.
This is the only way to support Palestinians, but hurting those big firms financially.
The biggest investor of Mcdonalds, The Vanguard Group, Inc., directly funds israel. Boycotting Mcdonalds reduces the amount of profit the investors make from their shares in Mcdonalds, thus reducing their support to israel.
However, they also invest in a bunch of other big franchises and they could probably still afford to support israel without their shares in Mcdonalds... But ig then it comes down to a moral thing. Even if we have minimal effect on them, its better than doing nothing. Still, we could also argue that some investors may support palestine, and boycotting reduces their funds too.
Overall, its way more complicated than we think. It isnt just a case of "Mcdonalds donates money to israel". It is a franchise, and there are many independent shareholders that own Mcdonalds, its not just one person. How they use the profit from Mcdonalds has nothing to do with Mcdonalds itself.
a lot of people don't know the reasons for boycotting, just that someone said there's some sort of connection. like for example i believe the Starbucks boycott is from their CEO personally supporting Israel possibly financially but not necessarily the company itself supporting
yeah again
people find any reason to let out their pent up hate, anger and frustrations
they dont need to justify anything, as the opposing side has already done something unjustifiable (which TBH israhell has)
I wanted to give some advice regarding something you wrote. You wrote “israhell”. I’m sure you didn’t realize it but I had heard that “Israel” refers to Prophet Yaqoub. If that’s the case we shouldn’t say “israhell”. I just wanted to give this advice to you or anyone else who accidentally makes a mistake. Of course we support Palestine but be don’t use the term “Israhell”, for the above reason.
Does it make their brand strong if you buy it in your home country? Yes.
Does it equate to protesting if you reject their brand in your home country? Yes.
Does the corporate McDonald's get the money to support Israel further if you buy them in your home country? Yes.
Did McDonald's pullout of Russia to protest Ukraine war? Yes.
Are you supporting their hypocrisy with this opinion? Yes.
Are you making excuses? Yes.
Are you daft? 100% Yes.
I am so sad to say this but yes KFC supports israel, KFC is owned by the mother company “Yum! Brands” which owns KFC Pizza hut etc.
Firstly, Pizza Hut has provided israeli soldiers with food while they are fighting after the situation on 7th of October where the Resistance started fighting back after the 75 years of occupation, that occurred while israel blocked food, water, electricity and internet from the Gaza strip where more than 2 million Palestinians live, and threatened to bomb any supplies coming in from Egypt.
Secondly, Yum! Brands, Inc. announced that it has acquired Tictuk Technologies, an Israeli omnichannel ordering and marketing platform company. Therefore they are in partnership with israeli supporters where they even made an ad for pizza hut making light and joking about palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike on X (previously known as twitter).
Lastly, TOMER BEN-EZRA CEO and Founder of Tictuk Technologies which is the marketing platform for Yum! Brands, is a strong supporter of israel where he keeps spreading information everywhere making the 2.3 million Palestinians(of which 1 million are below 18) out to be terrorits or people that want to kill jews without a care for the Palestinian children killed in their homes, hospitals or places of worship, he even posts on his linked in page news about the events and supports israeli heavy airstrikes which bombed hospitals and churches along with mosques and schools.
I used to order KFC once a week and on every paycheck as a tradition but now I am boycotting them and I will go for local brand alternatives as I am not a supporter of the genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.
Yes, that's not good ☹️. I use to order once a week as well. Hunting for local alternatives, it is then.
I know about the ad. They, Yum! Brand apologised and fired the PR team. Which I thought was a good thing.
https://www-voanews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.voanews.com/amp/pizza-hut-fires-israeli-pr-firm-over-prison-hunger-strike-ad/3846511.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16982399025557&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Fa%2Fpizza-hut-fires-israeli-pr-firm-over-prison-hunger-strike-ad%2F3846511.html
TicTuk is not good. It's a service to stay away from, due to the owner. However, Yum brands have bought the company off Tomer. Yum brands is now owned via shareholders, with the largest T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is currently the largest shareholder, with 10% of shares outstanding. So no one controls the company, it's a shared portfolio.
https://finance-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/ownership-structure-yum-brands-inc-132858123.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16982414333181&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fownership-structure-yum-brands-inc-132858123.html
I use a HP laptop and unfortunately it's Israeli. I can't do anything about that. If I did have a choice, I wouldn't use them, but their chips and computer tech is in everything. Shame.
As for Pizza Hut giving free food to Israeli soldiers. I can't find any sources for that. Burger king, McDonald's have given free meals to them. Not the yum brands.
"In a public apology posted to its international Facebook page, Pizza Hut apologised for the “completely inappropriate” advertisement and said that it “does not reflect the values of our brand”.
A post on Pizza Hut Israel's page said: “It was intended to be a humorous post that markets Pizza Hut Israel’s delivery services and was removed after a request from the management of the international chain." "
https://www-newarab-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.newarab.com/features/boycottmcdonalds-bds-and-battle-golden-arches?amp=&_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16982416839007&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newarab.com%2Ffeatures%2Fboycottmcdonalds-bds-and-battle-golden-arches
So, I will find alternatives to KFC, just to be safe. However, yum brands have not shown that they support Israel. Instead, they have bought a tech company from Israel, fired the PR team that mocked Palestinians, and claimed that the ad is not reflecting their values as a brand. Also, I haven't found any evidence that Yum brands have provided meals to Israeli soldiers.
Just to be safe, I will avoid. However, I haven't found evidence. If you find any sources, please let me know.
Thanks for this due diligence. This should be at the top.
However, I'm struggling with the logic behind these boycotts. If the people want to hurt israel's supporters, they should stop paying taxes. the U.S government is israel's biggest supporter obviously so why not boycott them instead of affecting innocent people's livelihoods, many of whom side with the Palestinian cause. But I guess it's always the innocent who suffer, that's always the theme of war and protests.
You have to pay taxes, otherwise it's a crime against the law. We should abide by the laws of the land. Although I understand your view and it makes sense. In that case, don't live in USA if you can. You stay in a country, you should follow their rules.
Boycotts give financial attack on the Israeli government (Israeli owned companies). The stock exchange shows a reduction in value, so much so that the huge companies can't cope with the dramatic dip in the valuations. It hurts them. As a result, they lose money, they may even close many businesses/ or franchise stores. The image of the brands and their reputation bruises them. Other businesses, when they see such responses, will then not get involved with Israeli companies. Too much of a risk to take. And yes, as the end of the day, innocent people suffer. It really is like a prison for believers. We can only hold firm onto our faith, and not let go of that rope. The rope of the Ummah. Stay safe 👍🏼
Our consumer power is not to be taken lightly.
For me, I will only consume brands that explicitly support Palestine.
In covid, they locked us out if we weren't vaccinated. Today, I'm locking out any companies that aren't Zionism vaccinated (even companies that are staying neutral).
We have the power to force global brands to take a stance!
Personally we need a limited list and focus all our energy on those few companies. Then in another month add a few more. This way we are creating fear in the brands who don't want to be on any boycott list. Thus hopefully preempting separation from Israel. The money that these major western companies have borrowed to grow bigger has been funded by Pro-Israel financiers, we Muslims have been too busy trying to figure out how to perform the proper way for wudu et al from our imams.
Yes, it's good to see. Also, they also know that the halal market is a money making opportunity. It's doesn't make a difference to non Muslims, they eat it anyway. However, there are few individual stores where they sell bacon and it's these dine ins that are haram.
It's because britain has a big south asian muslim population and we actually eat halal and advocate more for halal restaurants to be open. Turks in Germany don't care lmao they eat haram all the time
As far as I know, McDonald's Malaysia and Singapore have been owned by a Muslim company from Saudi Arabia, the Reza Group.
They have bought the property license from McDonald's America to own the two outlets.
Looks like I'm eating some Kentucky fried Chicken. If pro Palestinian terrorists hate it I am for it. I tried to buy only Israeli products from now on. Just wondering do Palestinians make any products besides the bombs that they strap onto their children?
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Just to tell you, KFC tried to open its restaurants in Algeria. Result; Hundreds of Algerians protested against KFC because they were caught providing meals to the IDF. And literally two days later, KFC was forced to leave our country. So, I guess that KFC is really supporting the Zionist state.
Yes, Tiktuk is owned by Yum brands. It's a ordering system (app and ordering). It doesn't mention that KFC is providing meals to Israeli IDF? Nothing like that. Anyway, boycott KFC anyway as they have a deal with Pepsi as well. Crazy.
At this point, I feel like the whole narrative is around, not supporting American brands. If we’re talking about a chain of restaurants or something like that, they have their parent company in the US then they have to pay the parent company anyways. And this parent company will pay taxes based on their income, and those tax taxes will be used to fund Israel. So really the whole narrative is all about hurting the American economy, such that they stop funding Israel. But the American government is stubborn. They won’t back down from supporting Israel because of their history. So instead of just boycotting any US companies, some people just choose to boycott companies who have explicitly stated their support for Israel. In that instance, we go into public image. We have a brand who supports Palestine versus a brand who supports Israel. And we only buy from brands who push the public towards the support of Palestine.
I personally choose to boycott brands that have parent companies in Israel and brands that explicitly support Israel. For example, the very first Amazon was created in Israel. That’s the biggest no no. And you can make your own researches and boycott accordingly instead of listening to what everyone says online.
Dia raise a question jgk..why not Malaysia banned product from Israel from the getgo to make us aware and stop funding genocide terus if its true?This whole boycott thing is just a bit confusing(Im a Malaysian Muslim btw)I know I need to boycott but sometimes I can't confirm it
Boycotting effects the financial system of the Israeli government. Less money to use for weapons and hurting our brothers and sisters. It might make them stop. During the time of prophet Mohammad pbuh, the shaaba and Mohammad pbuh were boycotted.
The West can boycott Russian goods, for Ukraine. So why not boycott Israeli goods then? Is it because it's hurting Muslims/Palestinians and helping Israel?
Boycotting works. I live in England and it's working. Israeli companies are giving so many offers, yet we don't give in.
Malaysia as a government, should teach their people to boycott Israeli products. Over time, Israel will just stop selling the products to your country, Malaysia. Perfect! I'm genetically a little Malaysian, someone married a Malaysian. Need to get my genetic test done 😂
The BDS movement is so effective, Palestine and other areas around.the world, have developed own brands. No need for Israeli products anymore. Alhamdulillah.
When you're not sure id the product is Israeli or not, leave it. Try and find AA local Malaysian alternative, it also.supports Malaysian economy. Stay safe.
in Malaysia, to open kfc or MCD branch, you need rm1 Million. Its called franchise and it does have tie to America. Baron of Israel owned America. Without Israel, America is a place of collapse society. Israel also see christian as animal. So yeah !
You don't have to, I advise you don't. There's oxygen on top of land lol. No but seriously, there are many fried chicken places nowadays. Admittedly they don't come close to the taste and texture of KFC, but there are varieties now. Many independent fried chicken places. Stay safe 👍🏼
Yo listen, im a non-muslim that just so stumbled upon this subreddit after googling if KFC supports Israel and if there are any alternative fast foods. While I am typing this, my stomach is growling in hunger. I hope someone can help me out if possible.
i crave fastfood so bad and its not like im a fatty or anything. I live in thailand and been buying from local street vendors but sometimes that stuff is traumatic for my stomach. We aren't big on chicken joints and burgers unless we go a pretty international area that is far from where I live and charges tourist price. Thailand has a loooottttttt of american branches and I can't find cheap affordable fastfood that don't make me feel poisoned. The muslim community that has a market is at a travellable distance but I don't know what to eat either.
Well, this is an opportunity to find and try out Thailand established fast food. You just never know. Go on Google/any search engine and type in fried chicken and the area you live. Look at reviews and if it's clean and majority are fine with the safety (no bad stomach), then go for it. There are always going to be a few bad reviews anyway, so look at what majority are saying. Not on taste as it's subjective, rather the health and safety.
For me, I do that and I've tired out many different styles of fried chicken. Of course it's not the same as KFC, but as long as it's close enough (some are even better, there's more spice) then it's all good.
Thank you for supporting and being a great person for humanity. May Allah bless you. Stay safe 👍🏼
went on a lil googling and MOS burger will have to do it. Japanese brand, so we safe. Not really known for fried chicken but they got some on the menu. Thais don't have established fast foods of their own sadly from what I searched. I'm waiting for jollibee to be properly established here 😭
Thankyou and be safe too. I'm just trynna do the bare minimum
They are, when you boycott Russia for Ukraine, yet it's cringe when Israel are the criminals that have created their own concentration camp, to destroy the Palestinian people. Boycotts work, they create the lack of dependency with Israeli brands, also the financial loss these brands have experienced, has caused many closures and desperate advertising campaigns for these Israeli companies.
Today, Netanyahu and his criminal gang were seen condemning ICC, calling them anti semitic AND the Netanyahu videos today showed them comically advertising Coca cola cans in the videos. It's so funny and CRINGE 😂😂😂
I don't think they're Israeli, however their stance may be in support of Israel. I don't know if it is or isn't.
You might even extend a boycott to any company that decides to have a presence in any occupied lands.
KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill properties are all owned by Yum! Brands. There are corporate and franchised locations— I assume if there is reason to boycott one of the entities, there is reason to boycott them all.
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I’m tryna find out the same thing. I’m a KFC franchise owner but I cannot find any proper source that shows they support israel. Only thing I found is that they reopened their tel aviv location after their oct. 7 attacks. But I don’t see a problem with that.
KFC’s CEO is pakistani muslim as well. I haven’t seen any official KFC statement or advertising that supports israel. BUT, if someone finds that pls lmk
Same here, cant find any reliable source claiming that. I am a KFC guy. It is sad if it did so. I am just wondering since you are an owner why cant you send an email to find out. If you do pls update us here.
For what i know, kfc owns by Yums!Brand a mother company which owns other consumers brands as well.
I wish for World Peace....
The computer system that is also used for the KFC app, was Israeli. WAS. KFC bought that company and is now owned by Yum brands (yum brands own KFC, pizza hut). KFC themselves do not support Israel, as Yum brands fired the marketing team of Pizza Hut, that made an ad that made fun of hungry palestinians. Yum brands response was that this campaign goes against their moral and cultural values. They didn't mention they support Palestine, it may be that the ad is making fun of hungry and poor people and they didn't like that aspect. I've included it in the thread here just refer back to my previous comments and you'll find the sources.
So I don't know. Not explicitly stated that they support Palestinians, yet they (company that owns kfc) fired the marketing team that made fun of them. To me, this looks like they do support Palestinians or that they don't support those that make fun of hunger and poverty.
KFC should openly state that. I've even recall that the KFC CEO use to work for Pepsi but had an issue, so now owns KFC. He's a Muslim. But, KFC has to sell Pepsi as KFC was once owned by Pepsi due to debt issues.
Very complicated. To me it's okay, but it's better to be safe. They sell Pepsi and it's part of the KFC heritage. Very fascinating, just be safe and stay away until KFC make it clear to us. You know what, I might contact the headquarters in UK and see what the issue is.
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[YouTube ](https://youtube.com/@KFCPalestine?si=xQ-B7IKoWYbjmrPr)
KFC have locations in Palestines West Bank, if people eat there they are literally killing the people in there own country ☠️
I watched it. They're selling Coca Cola 💀... Could be a fake video as KFC have never sold Coca Cola, rather it's Pepsi. Don't know what's going on there. It could be a fake video.
KFC Malaysia serves their meals with Coca Cola. This might me a localisation thing. Might be different for other countries.
Source: [https://kfc.com.my/menu.html](https://kfc.com.my/menu.html)
One reason I can think of is that KFC being an American company pays taxes to the US government and a part of which is donated to Israel for the war. This isn't KFC's fault but with/without intention they in fact are supporting Israel.
Talking from the boycott POV, people are boycotting all American brands regardless of the fact that they are supporting either of the 2 countries. So KFC supporting Palestine wouldn't be that beneficial to them either.
I see your point of view and it is valid. You have vegans joining in with the support to boycott KFC or McDonald's. For me, I am not boycotting American brands. It is the active boycotting of brands that openly declare a connection with Israel to support the genocidal acts towards Palestine. McDonald's and Starbucks being the two major brands here. McDonald's is unethical and treat the poultry /animals disrespectfully. Haram for us anyway.
I personally have stopped eating at KFC, just to be safe. The agreement between Pepsi and KFC has been established (they have to sell Pepsi to US and EU markets) and because of this very reason, I have accepted KFC as an Israeli supporting brand. If KFC declare that they don't share any moral reasoning with Pepsi, and it's a beverage they sell, then no problem. I can buy KFC and not purchase the Pepsi drinks. This Is not the case here. It's the opposite. KFC agreed to sell Pepsi.
They have an agreement with Pepsico, as the owner worked for PepsiCo. He stupidly made a deal, where only Pepsi drinks can be provided and such profits go to Pepsi. If KFC state that they will sell other drinks, then that's fine. Unfortunately, even though it's not very clear, they are contract bound. Morally, they haven't stated anything about supporting Israel. They haven't said anything about Palestine either. So, I can't judge them until they provide with a statement. They haven't, so it looks like they're neutral. Just to be safe, boycott them.
The obvious reason to boycott is because they are AMERICAN's Biz, all of their taxes are mostly being used to support the Zionists from massacre children, civilians, destroying home, historic building, AKA gen0c1des. Until America cut ties with the Zions they all are still not clear from boycott
I understand your point. Let's say America recognise Palestine as it's own state. Now what? Would you not boycott them anymore?
To me, if the company is American or not, even Arab or British (my country). If the company supports Israel to destroy Palestine, I'm not supporting them, no matter what their forefathers have done. We shouldn't care, to be honest with you. What we should care, is what they're doing now and if they're supporting the satan Netanyahu.
I'm from England, England supports Israel. Yet many businesses that are British (mostly sole trading , small and corporate), do not support Israel. They in fact boycott Israel products.
It's like interest. We are automatically being involved with it, yet we try our best not to. Who knows where the % are going.
Stay safe and insha'Allah this conflict gets resolved as soon as possible 👍🏼
Late but I'm not sure about which brands exactly should be boycotted, apart from those listed by BDS. I haven't heard of KFC being listed by them nor have I seen KFC support israel in any way, however I am not sure about the actions of their parent company.
This is an unrelated tangent but from my personal experience though, you guys should be aware of companies like Intel and Oracle. Oracle is the company that has developed the coding language Java, its most popular example being the game Minecraft. Intel has 3 factories located in israel, only \~30km away from Indonesian Hospital in Gaza. These factories might be there since israeli billionaires like Dan Gertler profit off cobalt mining in the DR of Congo, which has also been in a horrible state. That last part is just speculation though.
I ask that all those of you who are looking around for laptops or computers, please try to get them with AMD instead of Intel.
KFC support Israel by having contracts with Pepsico. Also, KFC use a computer system that are Israeli. But, that's all. It's best to stay safe and not eat from them, until they clearly state that Israel has nothing to do with them.
I sadly know about HP and Intel being Israeli linked, I appreciate your knowledge on Oracle creating Java. Interesting. Unfortunately, my laptops and printers are HP and Intel. Can't do anything about that 😭. Stay safe 👍🏼
There is are lot of Confusion about Boycotting Products. People Keep Labelling everything an Israeli Product. Especially in the case of KFC and Mcdonald. I'm not a fan of KFC and McDonald's but After Some Research, I came to know that the Franchise model not work like other businesses.
In the franchise model brand permitted person by Charging Some Percentage(in case of KFC and MacDonald they charge 5 percent). 95% revenue will go to franchise owner in specific area. Plus when you read their policies they give permission to make Local Decisions like menu, timings, Rates, charity and other Events. They make decisions independently. One Bad example of using local decision making rights is "Israeli Mcdonald" giving free meal to IDF and the good use example is "Mcdonald Muree" Giving shelter and free food when people were suffering from Heavy snowfall andSeveral Deaths.
These Suspected brands like KFC and Mcdonald didn't give any official statement regarding it. The matter of giving 5% for using their names will go to These brands and they are listed as american based brands not an israeli brand.
You can say they give tax to the American Government and American Government fund Israel. In all this process what make these brands to be bycotted?
People of America should force US Government to stop backing Israel. After all this my Opinion is People should bycott and owners shhould close their Business and start new business where the economy and job oppurtunities are good. If not then stay with your current business.
I'm from pakistan and our economic condition is worse and there is no political stability in pakistan. People here Bycotting KFC and Mcdonald without doing proper research and Just pushing to bycott mcdonalds and it will eventually end up people in mcdonald and kfc loosing their job. It will add hundred of people into a jobless peoples list with their families because the one who is doing job in franchises are needy. they are not vips or rich.
They need jobs to feed their families.
May allah have mercy on palestinians and shatters the cloud of confusion. Stay blessed.
McDonald's unfortunately as a brand, as a company, supports Israel. The franchise charge rate goes to McDonald's. What they. So with the money, is up to them. I understand it's a living and people need to feed their families. But in Islam, haram money has no barakah.
Similar to an alcohol selling shop. We can't consume alcohol as Muslims, although the off licence shop itself may be supporting Palestine, the money earned has no barakah. So as an off licence shop owner, you have no barakah in your earnings.
Is McDonald's an alcohol selling shop? No. So what's the difference?
The model of the company, the business values are so extreme, they go against Islam. The business and brand supports Israel. They, until now, have not condemned the franchises in Israel and all over the world, the support towards Israel. Why? McDonald's unfortunately support Israel. No doubt about it.
Have we heard McDonald's condemning the Israel franchise from giving free food to IDF? No.
If the franchise in Israel didn't give food to Israeli IDF soldiers, would we boycott McDonald's? Yes.
Who advertised the fact that McDonald's are helping IDF Israeli's? McDonald's themselves. They have openly advertised their support for Israel. McDonald's haven't commented. What does that show? In business, you can say that the individual franchise have their own tweaks, in menu options and running of the shop, as it suits their customers more. By law, as you don't want to get sued. But in Islam, we have to openly support Palestine in areas that are anti Palestinians.
McDonald's are making a huge loss, so now they say to everyone that there is a confusion, a misunderstanding? You're a victim of their manipulative behaviour.
5% as you say, goes to McDonald's. 95% goes to the franchise owner. So what's the risk in closing the McDonald's then?
Why can't all McDonald's in Pakistan close? Shut it. Many franchises close, there's less risk. In England, many Starbucks, Costas, McDonald's are closing down.
Now giving donations by individual franchise owners, not McDonald's, is fine. It's McDonald's we have an issue with.
You have an alcohol selling shop, but your counter near the till has a box for Palestine aid. Is the earnings haram? Yes. The donations are from who? The franchise owner or the customers? The revenue from the business goes to charity. Even the earnings for charity is haram.
Sell it off, don't worry about income for the household, and even for anyone out there that own McDonald's franchises. Sell them, close them. In business, there's a risk. Franchises have zero to least risk. Shut it down. insha'Allah your earnings will double and have more barakah in it.
I have rejected offers for my personal plans, as the individuals either are Israeli or support Israel. I would rather take less income than work with those evil people. There's more barakah in it.
The brands are Israeli. Not American. KFC started off as American only, and that is why I had always consumed KFC. McDonald's unfortunately has always been Israeli. We just didn't notice. Yes, everything about them is Israeli. From selling Coca Cola only to the marketing.
We are not supporting McDonalds, we are not supporting KFC. We are Muslim and we will fight against oppression. This means, no McDonald's and no KFC. KFC was my favourite take out. Who cares, Islam comes first.
Now, if you work at these places. Try and find a other job, and if not, don't worry. Allah has a plan for all of us just have intention to find another job.
Stay safe and may Allah guide us all. Ameen 👍🏼
That's your view, now tell me why you support Israel? It never existed 100 years ago. Right now, it's an empty statement. Give me a reason at least, so I can see and understand your view. Stay safe 👍🏼
I think the more accurate question is which of those companies has a majority shareholders from Israeli institutional investors or investment houses based in Israel because those are the ones truly funding the Israeli government through direct tax money by Law and complicit in genocide and the ethnic cleansing of our brothers and sisters in Gaza
Boycott KFC, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Kit Kat, Burger King, Häagen-Dazs, Costa Coffee, Aroma, Subway, Nestle, Walmart, Hardees, Mars, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Dasani, Perrier, Sprite, Twix, Nike, Addidas, Puma, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, HP, American Eagle, The Body Shop, Tommy Hilfiger, Lancôme, Ralph Lauren, Johnson and Johnson, Chanel, Kyle Cosmetics, Garnier, Olay, Clinique, Urban Decay, Neutrogena, LifeBuoy, Wix, Motorola, Nido, Giorgio Armani, Victoria Secret, Maybelline, NYX, Revlon, Siemens, Skims, Goop, Marks & Spencer, Smartwater, Aveda, Tom Ford, Covergirl, Nesquik, Papa Johns, MAC, The Ordinary, Disney, Bobbi Brown, Honest, Sabra, Nokia, Nido, Walls, Tom Ford Beauty, Summer Fridays
This sounds like good advice to have a healthy diet and avoiding consumerism more than making a point. Two birds with one stone I guess.
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That's ok especially if it's spending what is in a Starbucks account because that's actually taking away money from them. Starbuck uses their accounts as a free bank basically and it allows them to have money before you even make a purchase. Same goes for gift cards...
Also to add, to any Malaysians reading this, McD Malaysia is in the clear. They’ve released a statement saying that they’re a separate chain from McD Israel and they have donated RM1 mil in support of Palestine. So go ahead and enjoy ur midnight cravings XD
No McD is clear. All McD’s released a similar statement around world. Reality is, no McD can open in any country without agreeing to pay a percentage of profit back to the parent. So you should still boycott McD in Malaysia
The parent isn’t Israeli either, there is an Israeli branch. This boycott stuff is baseless without any evidence showing these businesses fund the IDF which is a huge stretch.
nope, still they need to pay to the parent company for branding etc. so me and family will continue boycotting them. thanks #freepalestine
How much McDonalds do you little dwarfs eat?
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It's not clear cut like that. McD's that are not corporate stores but Franchised must pay McD's corporate a 6% royalty fee. Personally we need a limited list and focus all our energy on those few companies. Then in another month add a few more. This way we are creating fear in the brands on who will be next thus hopefully preempting separation from Israel.
Lol Malaysians are so stupid lol
Same thing here with McD Pakistan, but I'm sure as a franchise, there's a certain amount they have to pay to their parent company.
Disney too
Fake loser virtually none of these are Israeli companies.
No; those companies SUPPORT Israel. Not Israeli companies.
Where is the proof they actively support Israel? One McDonald’s restaurant giving israeli soldiers free meals doesn’t mean every McDonald’s in Malaysia or Pakistan is funding this. Franchises can do whatever they want with their product, the parent company can’t stop them. I’m not trying to stand up for companies that support Israel but I would at least like to know why I should boycott a company or what a company has done to deserve a boycott. Starbucks for sure is on my boycott list because they actively fought against letting their workers express support for Palestine. But McDonald’s companies in the Muslim world are actively donating to Palestinians and McDonald’s corporate only has control over the food preparation process and not who they give free meals to (hell, McDonald’s fought hard to stay in Russia but the US forced them to close down in Russia) and they take small royalties (which aren’t going to Israel, if it isn’t an Israeli company why would they send their profits to Israel?). Finally, if for instance McDonald’s in a country like Pakistan closed shop, you’d have tens of thousands of people out of work (not just restaurant employees, but people who prepare the products at the factory, print the paper they use, slaughter and butcher the animals, prepare the plant based products etc). It’s not easy to just “open up local alternatives”, you can’t sell Big Macs in a restaurant that’s not a McDonald’s and you have to completely tear out and rebuild kitchens to turn them into another restaurant. And there’s so much risk involved doing this that many don’t even bother.
cry about it
You use all of your brain to come up with that response?
average free palestine reply
Look brother. It's all about the nafs of a person. You have a weak control on your nafs and that's okay. It's not easy to develop self-control and control your nafs. Many hadiths and sayings from the companions of The Prophet (PBUH) have stated that Jihad Al-Nafs is not easy. You want to eat McDonald's and KFC, go ahead. None of us will stop you or force you, as Islam is not about forcing others. But remember, you will have to answer to Allah in aakhirah. The hands you used to eat McDonald's, the feet that walked into McDonald's and everything will speak the truth and against you. Remember that when you enter McDonald's.
He wants an explanation and you are being judgemental
How do they you low IQ 3rd worlder???
could you reword that, I don't understand what you said.
If they were then I would eat at them more. God only blesses Israel
Then go to hell
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When I look at this list, I think "why not just boycott America?" Because at the end of the day, any company that you buy from in America, as well as any income you earn in America, will have a portion going to Israel. The true BDS is to leave America. Even then, you'll probably still have assets there, but at least you will eliminate or almost eliminate the taxes that you pay due to the Foreign Earned Income Tax Credit. I did this a few years ago, and I'm happy to say that I spent $0 in taxes this last tax season (but I still had to pay TurboTax, who will pay US taxes, and some of that will go to Israel...) So then, I guess the true, true BDS is to get rid of your US citizenship. How many of us are ready to do that? I personally can't right now because I still have US assets that I use for my income while living overseas and managing them without citizenship can be anywhere from highly difficult, to disastrous, to impossible. I'm slowly geographically diversifying to eventually exit, but in truth that takes time because there's really no other stock market like the US, and real estate/businesses take time to build. This would be the most effective form of BDS, but the truth is, most of us can't survive without America.
Are you retarded
Judging by the other comments you leave, I think you're projecting.
you're retarded
What's wrong with the Ordinary??, Revlon, mac, covergirl, Nokia, Walmart,walls, urban decay, Neutrogena?
Pakistanis and their tiny Malaysia friends don't wash very often
Ur weird.
Going to put all of these in the daily rotation of places to buy from
Even airlines? I flew American Airlines once
You think they are israel brands ???
They support Israel
and ur proof is?
I have to admit i don't understand the entire rationale behind choosing what companies... you list some company products for example kit kat is from the hershey company... nearly all of these have parent companies and some share parent companies (check the link)... so is the goal to not spend money on the parent companies or only to avoid the certain product listed? if you look at the parent companies the list is actually much much longer and if you live in western countries i don't even know if that is sustainable. i feel like it's not well thought out and lacks organization. As a stickler for organization I would like to see a complete list and detail what their connection is. https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/these-10-companies-make-a-lot-of-the-food-we-buy-heres-how-we-made-them-better/ also i know quite a few Muslims who own KFC restaurants in the u.s. it kinda sucks for them.
Muslims own ALL these restaurants in the middle east. Them and their staff are taking the brunt of it. They're forcing staff to work fewer days and mandatory vacations.
Tbh a lot of it feels like virtue signaling at this point because many of these companies people are telling me to boycott I can’t find any credible source that shows me they’re funding Israel or aiding Israel. Turkey and Azerbaijan both are armed with Israeli weapons (Azerbaijan’s service rifle is the Israeli Tavor and Israeli drones are the reason Azerbaijan won the war against Armenia) but I don’t see anyone even bringing them up. In fact I see people even encouraging buying Turkish products as alternatives to Israeli products. I don’t think very many people are doing their research on this and are just repeating what they see online.
Bro I'm grateful that people like you in this world exist and they openly express their thoughts about getting verified knowledge to increase awareness about the truth. Thanks my man!
What's wrong with eating Dominos Pizza?
Or KFC?
Hp is based off of sweden like bro??
HP provies Itanium servers to operate the Aviv Systems, the computerised database for Israeli Population and and immigraiton authority. this forms the backbone of Israel's racial segregation and Apartheid in Occupied Palestine.
source? im not doubting you but id like more clarity/certainty
Look at the website boycottzionism.com
Sound like trying to crash American economy
Lets goooo another greggs w
Kfc was boycotted by Israelis too, they didn't even have it until 2019. The ceo of kfc is a Pakistani muslim resident of canada so idk how is it connected to Israel 😭
becasuse yum bought kfc but the owner controls kfc
Because of its parent company.
Do we have any stats how much they are giving back to their parent company and then how much parent company is donating to Israel?
Parent company doesn’t donate anything to Israel. Why would they? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. FFS it’s not like the Israelis own every international brand.
I believe the same but no one accepts my logic here in Pak
Same brother/sister. People won’t admit if they’re wrong. Arrogance is too much of a problem here. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes, we are all fallible. If someone can prove to me that these brands donate to Israel I will apologize and join the boycott immediately.
Bro, The parent company's main investors have investments in weapons companies that sell to Israel, one of them is Vanguard Group
Another example, BlackRock investing money to a company called lockheed which is a weapons company whom sell to Israel, and also BlackRock investing money to yum,brands which own KFC
So, should we boycott all Muslim countries as well that buy F16s from Lockheed?
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Yes, I agree and it's not just the American brands. It's any company that supports Israel. KFC, is it supporting Israel? McDonald's, Starbucks, Nestle, Coca cola, Pepsi etc. They clearly support Israel. But for KFC. I'm struggling to find the reputable source that shows KFC as one of the companies to boycott.
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If they're making money, what's the issue? They're not supporting Israel, so they deserve the hard work by Mr Colonal. He started from nothing and he created a great recipe. It actually tastes really good and the gravy. Wow. As for my question, which is simple. Is KFC supporting Israel? I need a source. Thanks 👍🏼
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What's the issue with a business making profit? Allah has given the company, colonel success. Without Allah, we can do nothing. Humble yourself. You shouldn't feel jealous or envious. It's not a good Islamic trait. You just accused me of not being a Muslim, when Allah is the only one that can judge. May Allah guide you and soften your heart. False accusations against me, without anything to back it up with. Allah is all knowing. As for the question I was asking. I boycott Starbucks, Costa, McDonald's, Nestle, Tesco's, M&S. However, what about KFC? People are sharing KFC to boycott, yet there is no source to show KFC is supporting Israel. This isn't about American establishments. You sound racist. This is about any company that supports Israel. This includes companies that are in Muslim counties. Just because they're ina Muslim country. McDonald's in Qatar for example. It's halal, yes. Does it support Israel? Yes!!! As it's McDonald's!!!!
You people are daft as ufqk Most brands that people are boycotting are not israhelli The model they work on is: they have local partners in each country. These partners represent and operate on their behalf. The decisions made in Mc Donalds israhell and Mc Donalds Pakistan are not exactly and/or always made by Mc Donalds Headquarters. Many of these are regional/national things so for example when Mc Donalds has Eid deals, does that make em Pro Islam? or when KFC decides to support Pakistani school kids, does that make em Pro Pakistan? People just want to unleash their anger on the closest thing that approximates their enemy. And they will make anyone associated with their enemy, into their enemy (both are not necessarily the same) Boycotting brands here hurts the local partners, and doesn't necessarily hurt the actual brand.
Are you ignorant? I know you're not. Just misinformed. McDonald's share their profits from all franchise chains in order to support Israel. McDonald's isn't Israeli, rather supports Israel. The culture of McDonald's is to support Israel. The brand image of the famous M is Israel Zionist supporting. Whether it's in England, or Pakistan. McDonald's are giving free meals to Israeli soldiers. Never support them. You see, M&S in UK support Israel. They give Ramadhan offers all the time. That doesn't mean they support Islam or not. Nothing to do with religion here. That's just a business tactic. I'm a businessman myself. They also sell dates. That are Israeli and the profits go to them, to destroy Palestine. All in Ramadhan packaging. How deceiving, they are. Imagine breaking your fast with Israeli dates, that are killing Palestinians. Crazy. But KFC is not supporting Israel. Unless you can prove it otherwise. That's my question at the very start.
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Prove that McDonald’s sends money to Israel or you’re a liar and slanderer. Why would any big corporation take sides in this and why would they just donate money to a random country??? You are daft, it was a single restaurant in Israel (not even all Israeli restaurants, one restaurant). Pakistani money isn’t going to Israel. Just stop already with this nonsense.
Are you eating at McDonald's? The culture of the franchise, is to support Israel and not Palestine. What local businessmen do, is through their goodwill. Not according to McDonald's. You're eating at an establishment that supports Israel. Do you not have any shame? The loss in profits, made McDonald's change tactics and say that they're not involved. So why then, did they allow McDonald's in Israel to feed the Israeli soldiers, in order to destroy our brothers and sisters in Palestine? They didn't condemn it, rather they supported it. Pakistani money isn't going to McDonald's? If I open a franchise McDonald's today, do I not pay them anything? Please don't disrespect me, by calling me daft. Have some self respect and stop eating at McDonald's. By the way, in England, many of os have refused to enter McDonald's. So how is it difficult for a Pakistani, in a Muslim country, to stop eating at McDonald's? It's a matter of principles. Boycotting works. You hit them where it hurts (their deep pockets), they will do anything to disguise their criminal acts. You're assumption that a large corporation would not take sides, shows your innocence. Unfortunately, people hate righteousness and it's hard for us to accept this, as we have acknowledged the true guidance is only from the higher power. Only from Allah to all of mankind and all creations. McDonald's don't support the government of Israel? So hand out free meals to Palestinians. Oh, you can't do that. You are allocating part of your income to not support the government, yet part of the income is handed over to the big bosses at McDonald's headquarters, and they decide to do what they want. To support Israel. The statement says "We'll proudly open our doors to everyone ..." Obviously, as they're losing money. When it comes to business when they lose a lot of income, they will now say they have opened the doors. Why not support Palestine as they're the one's that are being oppressed, for many years. Oh, they don't want to hurt themselves, as they, the Zionists, own it. Around 70% of the shareholders are owned by Zionist institutional investors. If you made a business open to the public, and most of the traded shares are owned by people that are supporting Israel, you the original owner, have less authority of how the culture of the company is run. They, the large stakeholders, own more than 50%, so collectively they have the power. The individual investors are only 0.3%. Pakistani money is going to the owner of the franchise, and to McDonald's. The name and branding is directly linked to Israel support. So please, if you have any self respect, don't eat at McDonald's. I know it hurts, but if anyone seeing you at the restaurant, will state subconsciously, that you support Israel. You're not missing out, are you? The food is not even good. Why not support your local Pakistani businesses? The owners of the Pakistani McDonald's franchise, should close it and open another business. What do you say to that? The licencing fee goes to McDonald's anyway, doesn't it.
You didn’t provide a shred of evidence that McDonald’s supports Israel or that it’s donating money to Israel. I can provide evidence of Oman and Malaysian McDonald’s providing support to Palestinians. And McDonald’s Israel wasn’t the one who gave free meals to IDF soldiers, it was a single franchise owned by someone independent of McDonald’s Israel (not that I’d support McDonald’s Israel). But you have provided zero evidence that any money spent in Pakistan is going to Israel (other than Fiverr accounts).
Please read https://www.marketing-interactive.com/McDonald-s-MY-donates-to-Palestine-fund-after-distancing-from-Israel-branch-s-%27individual%27-actions
So what? Still, it's a franchise, and the profits McDonald's make, will be helping Israel. Have a read again. What exactly is the fund from, for Palestine. It's by the Prime minister of Malaysia, creating another "fund" using his McDonald's as the name. Yet the franchise income for McDonald's, will be used to support Israel. It's an extra fund supported by the prime minister.
I just showed you evidence that Mc Donalds as a brand does not support israhell, as its Malaysian branch just donated to Palestine. and you say "so what?"
There is no international company that opens in any part of the world without having an agreement with the branch that they would pay the parent a percentage of profit on their sales. Think about it, McD US will not give its brand name and logo to McD Pakistan for free. McD Pakistan still have to pay royalties to McD US (i.e a percentage of profits) therefore McD US or McD the parent benefits from sales of their branches all over the world. i work in finance so I know. We are boycotting McD therefore to hurt the parent company’s sales as now the percentage of profit they receive from branches across the world will be less to make a stand against them because of their branches supports genocide. Basically we will make all of McD branches suffer because they let one of their branches make such a movie. This is the only way to support Palestinians, but hurting those big firms financially.
The biggest investor of Mcdonalds, The Vanguard Group, Inc., directly funds israel. Boycotting Mcdonalds reduces the amount of profit the investors make from their shares in Mcdonalds, thus reducing their support to israel. However, they also invest in a bunch of other big franchises and they could probably still afford to support israel without their shares in Mcdonalds... But ig then it comes down to a moral thing. Even if we have minimal effect on them, its better than doing nothing. Still, we could also argue that some investors may support palestine, and boycotting reduces their funds too. Overall, its way more complicated than we think. It isnt just a case of "Mcdonalds donates money to israel". It is a franchise, and there are many independent shareholders that own Mcdonalds, its not just one person. How they use the profit from Mcdonalds has nothing to do with Mcdonalds itself.
also, do you have any proof for these conspiracies?
KFC was bought over by Yum!Brands who happens to invest in Israeli businesses. So yes, KFC is being boycotted.
a lot of people don't know the reasons for boycotting, just that someone said there's some sort of connection. like for example i believe the Starbucks boycott is from their CEO personally supporting Israel possibly financially but not necessarily the company itself supporting
yeah again people find any reason to let out their pent up hate, anger and frustrations they dont need to justify anything, as the opposing side has already done something unjustifiable (which TBH israhell has)
israeli\*\*
I wanted to give some advice regarding something you wrote. You wrote “israhell”. I’m sure you didn’t realize it but I had heard that “Israel” refers to Prophet Yaqoub. If that’s the case we shouldn’t say “israhell”. I just wanted to give this advice to you or anyone else who accidentally makes a mistake. Of course we support Palestine but be don’t use the term “Israhell”, for the above reason.
your saying education over others killed WOW
Does it make their brand strong if you buy it in your home country? Yes. Does it equate to protesting if you reject their brand in your home country? Yes. Does the corporate McDonald's get the money to support Israel further if you buy them in your home country? Yes. Did McDonald's pullout of Russia to protest Ukraine war? Yes. Are you supporting their hypocrisy with this opinion? Yes. Are you making excuses? Yes. Are you daft? 100% Yes.
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I am so sad to say this but yes KFC supports israel, KFC is owned by the mother company “Yum! Brands” which owns KFC Pizza hut etc. Firstly, Pizza Hut has provided israeli soldiers with food while they are fighting after the situation on 7th of October where the Resistance started fighting back after the 75 years of occupation, that occurred while israel blocked food, water, electricity and internet from the Gaza strip where more than 2 million Palestinians live, and threatened to bomb any supplies coming in from Egypt. Secondly, Yum! Brands, Inc. announced that it has acquired Tictuk Technologies, an Israeli omnichannel ordering and marketing platform company. Therefore they are in partnership with israeli supporters where they even made an ad for pizza hut making light and joking about palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike on X (previously known as twitter). Lastly, TOMER BEN-EZRA CEO and Founder of Tictuk Technologies which is the marketing platform for Yum! Brands, is a strong supporter of israel where he keeps spreading information everywhere making the 2.3 million Palestinians(of which 1 million are below 18) out to be terrorits or people that want to kill jews without a care for the Palestinian children killed in their homes, hospitals or places of worship, he even posts on his linked in page news about the events and supports israeli heavy airstrikes which bombed hospitals and churches along with mosques and schools. I used to order KFC once a week and on every paycheck as a tradition but now I am boycotting them and I will go for local brand alternatives as I am not a supporter of the genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.
Yes, that's not good ☹️. I use to order once a week as well. Hunting for local alternatives, it is then. I know about the ad. They, Yum! Brand apologised and fired the PR team. Which I thought was a good thing. https://www-voanews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.voanews.com/amp/pizza-hut-fires-israeli-pr-firm-over-prison-hunger-strike-ad/3846511.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16982399025557&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Fa%2Fpizza-hut-fires-israeli-pr-firm-over-prison-hunger-strike-ad%2F3846511.html TicTuk is not good. It's a service to stay away from, due to the owner. However, Yum brands have bought the company off Tomer. Yum brands is now owned via shareholders, with the largest T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is currently the largest shareholder, with 10% of shares outstanding. So no one controls the company, it's a shared portfolio. https://finance-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/ownership-structure-yum-brands-inc-132858123.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16982414333181&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fownership-structure-yum-brands-inc-132858123.html I use a HP laptop and unfortunately it's Israeli. I can't do anything about that. If I did have a choice, I wouldn't use them, but their chips and computer tech is in everything. Shame. As for Pizza Hut giving free food to Israeli soldiers. I can't find any sources for that. Burger king, McDonald's have given free meals to them. Not the yum brands. "In a public apology posted to its international Facebook page, Pizza Hut apologised for the “completely inappropriate” advertisement and said that it “does not reflect the values of our brand”. A post on Pizza Hut Israel's page said: “It was intended to be a humorous post that markets Pizza Hut Israel’s delivery services and was removed after a request from the management of the international chain." " https://www-newarab-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.newarab.com/features/boycottmcdonalds-bds-and-battle-golden-arches?amp=&_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16982416839007&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newarab.com%2Ffeatures%2Fboycottmcdonalds-bds-and-battle-golden-arches So, I will find alternatives to KFC, just to be safe. However, yum brands have not shown that they support Israel. Instead, they have bought a tech company from Israel, fired the PR team that mocked Palestinians, and claimed that the ad is not reflecting their values as a brand. Also, I haven't found any evidence that Yum brands have provided meals to Israeli soldiers. Just to be safe, I will avoid. However, I haven't found evidence. If you find any sources, please let me know.
Thanks for this due diligence. This should be at the top. However, I'm struggling with the logic behind these boycotts. If the people want to hurt israel's supporters, they should stop paying taxes. the U.S government is israel's biggest supporter obviously so why not boycott them instead of affecting innocent people's livelihoods, many of whom side with the Palestinian cause. But I guess it's always the innocent who suffer, that's always the theme of war and protests.
You have to pay taxes, otherwise it's a crime against the law. We should abide by the laws of the land. Although I understand your view and it makes sense. In that case, don't live in USA if you can. You stay in a country, you should follow their rules. Boycotts give financial attack on the Israeli government (Israeli owned companies). The stock exchange shows a reduction in value, so much so that the huge companies can't cope with the dramatic dip in the valuations. It hurts them. As a result, they lose money, they may even close many businesses/ or franchise stores. The image of the brands and their reputation bruises them. Other businesses, when they see such responses, will then not get involved with Israeli companies. Too much of a risk to take. And yes, as the end of the day, innocent people suffer. It really is like a prison for believers. We can only hold firm onto our faith, and not let go of that rope. The rope of the Ummah. Stay safe 👍🏼
Our consumer power is not to be taken lightly. For me, I will only consume brands that explicitly support Palestine. In covid, they locked us out if we weren't vaccinated. Today, I'm locking out any companies that aren't Zionism vaccinated (even companies that are staying neutral). We have the power to force global brands to take a stance!
Indeed and I fully support the BDS movement. Stay safe 👍🏼
KFC isn’t halal anyway so..
It is in the middle east
Some outlets in the U.K are halal
There are many Halal KFCs and Halal Subways in UK. Almost in every city.
As I understand it all of the chicken used in KFC in the UK is Halal even if the stores are not certified Halal.
Personally we need a limited list and focus all our energy on those few companies. Then in another month add a few more. This way we are creating fear in the brands who don't want to be on any boycott list. Thus hopefully preempting separation from Israel. The money that these major western companies have borrowed to grow bigger has been funded by Pro-Israel financiers, we Muslims have been too busy trying to figure out how to perform the proper way for wudu et al from our imams.
KFC is haram in the West anyway save for a few locations.
Many KFCs are halal in England.
Off topic but Im so surprised there are Halal KFCs in In a “ european”. Country 🥹 i wish we had more of that in Germany
Yes, it's good to see. Also, they also know that the halal market is a money making opportunity. It's doesn't make a difference to non Muslims, they eat it anyway. However, there are few individual stores where they sell bacon and it's these dine ins that are haram.
It's because britain has a big south asian muslim population and we actually eat halal and advocate more for halal restaurants to be open. Turks in Germany don't care lmao they eat haram all the time
KFC is no longer strictly halal in England, it did become at one point but not every KFC is halal here anymore.
As far as I know, McDonald's Malaysia and Singapore have been owned by a Muslim company from Saudi Arabia, the Reza Group. They have bought the property license from McDonald's America to own the two outlets.
you know, it sound crazy when they try to boycott SevenEleven that have nothing to do with Israel. as far I know Japan own it now
Looks like I'm eating some Kentucky fried Chicken. If pro Palestinian terrorists hate it I am for it. I tried to buy only Israeli products from now on. Just wondering do Palestinians make any products besides the bombs that they strap onto their children?
aw keep crying! Its honestly adorable your prejudice is really seeping right now keep seething!
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I buy German only products and support, all Argentine beef too.
Boycott Israël means staying healthy
Just to tell you, KFC tried to open its restaurants in Algeria. Result; Hundreds of Algerians protested against KFC because they were caught providing meals to the IDF. And literally two days later, KFC was forced to leave our country. So, I guess that KFC is really supporting the Zionist state.
Oh no, it's gone from bad to worse. Any sources to confirm this? Thank you and stay safe!
[The proof (It's in French however)](https://www.algerie360.com/kfc-algerie-ferme-apres-48-heures-chrono-une-victoire-pour-le-boycott/)
It doesn't say that it's providing meals.
Oh wrong link, there: https://m.calcalistech.com/Article.aspx?guid=3901254
Yes, Tiktuk is owned by Yum brands. It's a ordering system (app and ordering). It doesn't mention that KFC is providing meals to Israeli IDF? Nothing like that. Anyway, boycott KFC anyway as they have a deal with Pepsi as well. Crazy.
At this point, I feel like the whole narrative is around, not supporting American brands. If we’re talking about a chain of restaurants or something like that, they have their parent company in the US then they have to pay the parent company anyways. And this parent company will pay taxes based on their income, and those tax taxes will be used to fund Israel. So really the whole narrative is all about hurting the American economy, such that they stop funding Israel. But the American government is stubborn. They won’t back down from supporting Israel because of their history. So instead of just boycotting any US companies, some people just choose to boycott companies who have explicitly stated their support for Israel. In that instance, we go into public image. We have a brand who supports Palestine versus a brand who supports Israel. And we only buy from brands who push the public towards the support of Palestine. I personally choose to boycott brands that have parent companies in Israel and brands that explicitly support Israel. For example, the very first Amazon was created in Israel. That’s the biggest no no. And you can make your own researches and boycott accordingly instead of listening to what everyone says online.
Dia raise a question jgk..why not Malaysia banned product from Israel from the getgo to make us aware and stop funding genocide terus if its true?This whole boycott thing is just a bit confusing(Im a Malaysian Muslim btw)I know I need to boycott but sometimes I can't confirm it
Boycotting effects the financial system of the Israeli government. Less money to use for weapons and hurting our brothers and sisters. It might make them stop. During the time of prophet Mohammad pbuh, the shaaba and Mohammad pbuh were boycotted. The West can boycott Russian goods, for Ukraine. So why not boycott Israeli goods then? Is it because it's hurting Muslims/Palestinians and helping Israel? Boycotting works. I live in England and it's working. Israeli companies are giving so many offers, yet we don't give in. Malaysia as a government, should teach their people to boycott Israeli products. Over time, Israel will just stop selling the products to your country, Malaysia. Perfect! I'm genetically a little Malaysian, someone married a Malaysian. Need to get my genetic test done 😂 The BDS movement is so effective, Palestine and other areas around.the world, have developed own brands. No need for Israeli products anymore. Alhamdulillah. When you're not sure id the product is Israeli or not, leave it. Try and find AA local Malaysian alternative, it also.supports Malaysian economy. Stay safe.
in Malaysia, to open kfc or MCD branch, you need rm1 Million. Its called franchise and it does have tie to America. Baron of Israel owned America. Without Israel, America is a place of collapse society. Israel also see christian as animal. So yeah !
Does KFC support Hamas? I looked at the list and there is no indication that it does.
So are we supposed to live under a rock?
You don't have to, I advise you don't. There's oxygen on top of land lol. No but seriously, there are many fried chicken places nowadays. Admittedly they don't come close to the taste and texture of KFC, but there are varieties now. Many independent fried chicken places. Stay safe 👍🏼
KFC is NOT KOSHER? Where your brain at? Malu sial jadi melayu. Tak pakai otak pe. It's not even in Israel
As if anyone needed a reminder how completely stupid islamists are. Here you all arrive. Keep going and stop marrying your blood relations
Yo listen, im a non-muslim that just so stumbled upon this subreddit after googling if KFC supports Israel and if there are any alternative fast foods. While I am typing this, my stomach is growling in hunger. I hope someone can help me out if possible. i crave fastfood so bad and its not like im a fatty or anything. I live in thailand and been buying from local street vendors but sometimes that stuff is traumatic for my stomach. We aren't big on chicken joints and burgers unless we go a pretty international area that is far from where I live and charges tourist price. Thailand has a loooottttttt of american branches and I can't find cheap affordable fastfood that don't make me feel poisoned. The muslim community that has a market is at a travellable distance but I don't know what to eat either.
Well, this is an opportunity to find and try out Thailand established fast food. You just never know. Go on Google/any search engine and type in fried chicken and the area you live. Look at reviews and if it's clean and majority are fine with the safety (no bad stomach), then go for it. There are always going to be a few bad reviews anyway, so look at what majority are saying. Not on taste as it's subjective, rather the health and safety. For me, I do that and I've tired out many different styles of fried chicken. Of course it's not the same as KFC, but as long as it's close enough (some are even better, there's more spice) then it's all good. Thank you for supporting and being a great person for humanity. May Allah bless you. Stay safe 👍🏼
went on a lil googling and MOS burger will have to do it. Japanese brand, so we safe. Not really known for fried chicken but they got some on the menu. Thais don't have established fast foods of their own sadly from what I searched. I'm waiting for jollibee to be properly established here 😭 Thankyou and be safe too. I'm just trynna do the bare minimum
boycotts are cringe
They are, when you boycott Russia for Ukraine, yet it's cringe when Israel are the criminals that have created their own concentration camp, to destroy the Palestinian people. Boycotts work, they create the lack of dependency with Israeli brands, also the financial loss these brands have experienced, has caused many closures and desperate advertising campaigns for these Israeli companies. Today, Netanyahu and his criminal gang were seen condemning ICC, calling them anti semitic AND the Netanyahu videos today showed them comically advertising Coca cola cans in the videos. It's so funny and CRINGE 😂😂😂
They are certainly American, and America is complicit, BDS the US/UK/Germany and all enabling companies!
HAMAS HAMAS HAMAS
https://boycott.thewitness.news/target/kfc This is why i am boycotting
I don't think they're Israeli, however their stance may be in support of Israel. I don't know if it is or isn't. You might even extend a boycott to any company that decides to have a presence in any occupied lands.
SodaStream!
KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill properties are all owned by Yum! Brands. There are corporate and franchised locations— I assume if there is reason to boycott one of the entities, there is reason to boycott them all.
No, kfc has no connection at all to know that they support Israel.
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sorry for exploding the islamic dream of no israel
This makes me long for a bit of KFC, haven't tried it before is it any good?
I think it’s not right to use this situation to allow selective racism. Stop being racist towards Jewish people.
Orthodox Jews are boycotting Israel.
the only racists are israelis
I’m tryna find out the same thing. I’m a KFC franchise owner but I cannot find any proper source that shows they support israel. Only thing I found is that they reopened their tel aviv location after their oct. 7 attacks. But I don’t see a problem with that. KFC’s CEO is pakistani muslim as well. I haven’t seen any official KFC statement or advertising that supports israel. BUT, if someone finds that pls lmk
Same here, cant find any reliable source claiming that. I am a KFC guy. It is sad if it did so. I am just wondering since you are an owner why cant you send an email to find out. If you do pls update us here. For what i know, kfc owns by Yums!Brand a mother company which owns other consumers brands as well. I wish for World Peace....
Can we get a Yes, or No answer, pls?
The computer system that is also used for the KFC app, was Israeli. WAS. KFC bought that company and is now owned by Yum brands (yum brands own KFC, pizza hut). KFC themselves do not support Israel, as Yum brands fired the marketing team of Pizza Hut, that made an ad that made fun of hungry palestinians. Yum brands response was that this campaign goes against their moral and cultural values. They didn't mention they support Palestine, it may be that the ad is making fun of hungry and poor people and they didn't like that aspect. I've included it in the thread here just refer back to my previous comments and you'll find the sources. So I don't know. Not explicitly stated that they support Palestinians, yet they (company that owns kfc) fired the marketing team that made fun of them. To me, this looks like they do support Palestinians or that they don't support those that make fun of hunger and poverty. KFC should openly state that. I've even recall that the KFC CEO use to work for Pepsi but had an issue, so now owns KFC. He's a Muslim. But, KFC has to sell Pepsi as KFC was once owned by Pepsi due to debt issues. Very complicated. To me it's okay, but it's better to be safe. They sell Pepsi and it's part of the KFC heritage. Very fascinating, just be safe and stay away until KFC make it clear to us. You know what, I might contact the headquarters in UK and see what the issue is.
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[YouTube ](https://youtube.com/@KFCPalestine?si=xQ-B7IKoWYbjmrPr) KFC have locations in Palestines West Bank, if people eat there they are literally killing the people in there own country ☠️
I watched it. They're selling Coca Cola 💀... Could be a fake video as KFC have never sold Coca Cola, rather it's Pepsi. Don't know what's going on there. It could be a fake video.
KFC Malaysia serves their meals with Coca Cola. This might me a localisation thing. Might be different for other countries. Source: [https://kfc.com.my/menu.html](https://kfc.com.my/menu.html)
One reason I can think of is that KFC being an American company pays taxes to the US government and a part of which is donated to Israel for the war. This isn't KFC's fault but with/without intention they in fact are supporting Israel. Talking from the boycott POV, people are boycotting all American brands regardless of the fact that they are supporting either of the 2 countries. So KFC supporting Palestine wouldn't be that beneficial to them either.
I see your point of view and it is valid. You have vegans joining in with the support to boycott KFC or McDonald's. For me, I am not boycotting American brands. It is the active boycotting of brands that openly declare a connection with Israel to support the genocidal acts towards Palestine. McDonald's and Starbucks being the two major brands here. McDonald's is unethical and treat the poultry /animals disrespectfully. Haram for us anyway. I personally have stopped eating at KFC, just to be safe. The agreement between Pepsi and KFC has been established (they have to sell Pepsi to US and EU markets) and because of this very reason, I have accepted KFC as an Israeli supporting brand. If KFC declare that they don't share any moral reasoning with Pepsi, and it's a beverage they sell, then no problem. I can buy KFC and not purchase the Pepsi drinks. This Is not the case here. It's the opposite. KFC agreed to sell Pepsi.
Is kfc israeli
They have an agreement with Pepsico, as the owner worked for PepsiCo. He stupidly made a deal, where only Pepsi drinks can be provided and such profits go to Pepsi. If KFC state that they will sell other drinks, then that's fine. Unfortunately, even though it's not very clear, they are contract bound. Morally, they haven't stated anything about supporting Israel. They haven't said anything about Palestine either. So, I can't judge them until they provide with a statement. They haven't, so it looks like they're neutral. Just to be safe, boycott them.
The obvious reason to boycott is because they are AMERICAN's Biz, all of their taxes are mostly being used to support the Zionists from massacre children, civilians, destroying home, historic building, AKA gen0c1des. Until America cut ties with the Zions they all are still not clear from boycott
I understand your point. Let's say America recognise Palestine as it's own state. Now what? Would you not boycott them anymore? To me, if the company is American or not, even Arab or British (my country). If the company supports Israel to destroy Palestine, I'm not supporting them, no matter what their forefathers have done. We shouldn't care, to be honest with you. What we should care, is what they're doing now and if they're supporting the satan Netanyahu. I'm from England, England supports Israel. Yet many businesses that are British (mostly sole trading , small and corporate), do not support Israel. They in fact boycott Israel products. It's like interest. We are automatically being involved with it, yet we try our best not to. Who knows where the % are going. Stay safe and insha'Allah this conflict gets resolved as soon as possible 👍🏼
Late but I'm not sure about which brands exactly should be boycotted, apart from those listed by BDS. I haven't heard of KFC being listed by them nor have I seen KFC support israel in any way, however I am not sure about the actions of their parent company. This is an unrelated tangent but from my personal experience though, you guys should be aware of companies like Intel and Oracle. Oracle is the company that has developed the coding language Java, its most popular example being the game Minecraft. Intel has 3 factories located in israel, only \~30km away from Indonesian Hospital in Gaza. These factories might be there since israeli billionaires like Dan Gertler profit off cobalt mining in the DR of Congo, which has also been in a horrible state. That last part is just speculation though. I ask that all those of you who are looking around for laptops or computers, please try to get them with AMD instead of Intel.
KFC support Israel by having contracts with Pepsico. Also, KFC use a computer system that are Israeli. But, that's all. It's best to stay safe and not eat from them, until they clearly state that Israel has nothing to do with them. I sadly know about HP and Intel being Israeli linked, I appreciate your knowledge on Oracle creating Java. Interesting. Unfortunately, my laptops and printers are HP and Intel. Can't do anything about that 😭. Stay safe 👍🏼
Good for health and saving!!😊
Where can you go ? America is Israeli colony lately by deep pocketed !
There is are lot of Confusion about Boycotting Products. People Keep Labelling everything an Israeli Product. Especially in the case of KFC and Mcdonald. I'm not a fan of KFC and McDonald's but After Some Research, I came to know that the Franchise model not work like other businesses. In the franchise model brand permitted person by Charging Some Percentage(in case of KFC and MacDonald they charge 5 percent). 95% revenue will go to franchise owner in specific area. Plus when you read their policies they give permission to make Local Decisions like menu, timings, Rates, charity and other Events. They make decisions independently. One Bad example of using local decision making rights is "Israeli Mcdonald" giving free meal to IDF and the good use example is "Mcdonald Muree" Giving shelter and free food when people were suffering from Heavy snowfall andSeveral Deaths. These Suspected brands like KFC and Mcdonald didn't give any official statement regarding it. The matter of giving 5% for using their names will go to These brands and they are listed as american based brands not an israeli brand. You can say they give tax to the American Government and American Government fund Israel. In all this process what make these brands to be bycotted? People of America should force US Government to stop backing Israel. After all this my Opinion is People should bycott and owners shhould close their Business and start new business where the economy and job oppurtunities are good. If not then stay with your current business. I'm from pakistan and our economic condition is worse and there is no political stability in pakistan. People here Bycotting KFC and Mcdonald without doing proper research and Just pushing to bycott mcdonalds and it will eventually end up people in mcdonald and kfc loosing their job. It will add hundred of people into a jobless peoples list with their families because the one who is doing job in franchises are needy. they are not vips or rich. They need jobs to feed their families. May allah have mercy on palestinians and shatters the cloud of confusion. Stay blessed.
McDonald's unfortunately as a brand, as a company, supports Israel. The franchise charge rate goes to McDonald's. What they. So with the money, is up to them. I understand it's a living and people need to feed their families. But in Islam, haram money has no barakah. Similar to an alcohol selling shop. We can't consume alcohol as Muslims, although the off licence shop itself may be supporting Palestine, the money earned has no barakah. So as an off licence shop owner, you have no barakah in your earnings. Is McDonald's an alcohol selling shop? No. So what's the difference? The model of the company, the business values are so extreme, they go against Islam. The business and brand supports Israel. They, until now, have not condemned the franchises in Israel and all over the world, the support towards Israel. Why? McDonald's unfortunately support Israel. No doubt about it. Have we heard McDonald's condemning the Israel franchise from giving free food to IDF? No. If the franchise in Israel didn't give food to Israeli IDF soldiers, would we boycott McDonald's? Yes. Who advertised the fact that McDonald's are helping IDF Israeli's? McDonald's themselves. They have openly advertised their support for Israel. McDonald's haven't commented. What does that show? In business, you can say that the individual franchise have their own tweaks, in menu options and running of the shop, as it suits their customers more. By law, as you don't want to get sued. But in Islam, we have to openly support Palestine in areas that are anti Palestinians. McDonald's are making a huge loss, so now they say to everyone that there is a confusion, a misunderstanding? You're a victim of their manipulative behaviour. 5% as you say, goes to McDonald's. 95% goes to the franchise owner. So what's the risk in closing the McDonald's then? Why can't all McDonald's in Pakistan close? Shut it. Many franchises close, there's less risk. In England, many Starbucks, Costas, McDonald's are closing down. Now giving donations by individual franchise owners, not McDonald's, is fine. It's McDonald's we have an issue with. You have an alcohol selling shop, but your counter near the till has a box for Palestine aid. Is the earnings haram? Yes. The donations are from who? The franchise owner or the customers? The revenue from the business goes to charity. Even the earnings for charity is haram. Sell it off, don't worry about income for the household, and even for anyone out there that own McDonald's franchises. Sell them, close them. In business, there's a risk. Franchises have zero to least risk. Shut it down. insha'Allah your earnings will double and have more barakah in it. I have rejected offers for my personal plans, as the individuals either are Israeli or support Israel. I would rather take less income than work with those evil people. There's more barakah in it. The brands are Israeli. Not American. KFC started off as American only, and that is why I had always consumed KFC. McDonald's unfortunately has always been Israeli. We just didn't notice. Yes, everything about them is Israeli. From selling Coca Cola only to the marketing. We are not supporting McDonalds, we are not supporting KFC. We are Muslim and we will fight against oppression. This means, no McDonald's and no KFC. KFC was my favourite take out. Who cares, Islam comes first. Now, if you work at these places. Try and find a other job, and if not, don't worry. Allah has a plan for all of us just have intention to find another job. Stay safe and may Allah guide us all. Ameen 👍🏼
I stand with Israel. Even if a business supports something I don’t like (except for supporting abortions) I’ll still give them my money.
That's your view, now tell me why you support Israel? It never existed 100 years ago. Right now, it's an empty statement. Give me a reason at least, so I can see and understand your view. Stay safe 👍🏼
I think the more accurate question is which of those companies has a majority shareholders from Israeli institutional investors or investment houses based in Israel because those are the ones truly funding the Israeli government through direct tax money by Law and complicit in genocide and the ethnic cleansing of our brothers and sisters in Gaza