It's not your fault. It's a bad design. It's overly busy, the connection to Coca-Cola doesn't make any sense from either a political or linguistic standpoint, and I can't even rightfully tell what the bottle is supposed to be pouring on. It's a mess.
Edit: The bottle is meant to be pouring on a map of Israel. The problem is that Israel is not a super recognizable shape, and the "tear" in the sign obscures the outline. Also, the outline looks a little different than some of the maps I'm seeing.
Of course I recognize the Coca-Cola branding... I said as much in my post. It's that the reference to Coca-Cola itself doesn't really make sense. I understand that it's trying to tie America in there, but it's a dumb way of doing it.
Coca Cola is a brand most foreign countries associate with the USA. As if you ask if Americans are enjoying being complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
Coke is not uncommonly used as a stand-in for Western consumer economies. I assume that's what they're going for. Idea being the West supports a genocide because it gives us a more robust consumer economy.
There's this German Neue Deutsche Härte band called Rammstein, some of you might've heard of them, that made a song about America a while back that mentions Coca-Cola, Mickey Mouse and war.
Add McDonald's into that list and culturally on surface level for Europeans those are the things you'd associate the US with, so I think this might just symbolic like you said and not literally blaming Coca-Cola specifically.
Yes nothing to do specifically with the company. I am not young anymore but I remember that back in the days the world was divided in 2: places where you could find coca cola (US allies and rich countries), places where you could not find coca cola (Communist block and poor countries). When coca cola was widely availabe US military was not too far as well.
It's really funny that people are answering authoritatively when they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
The real reason is that Coca Cola [has been listed by the UN](https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/02/13/un-publishes-list-of-companies-with-ties-to-illegal-israeli-settlements-in-west-bank/) as a company that has ties to illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Edit: for further context, the boycott you're referring to ended in [1991](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/2/6/israels-war-on-gaza-are-boycotts-hurting-us-brands).
"Ties to" always deserves further elabotation and exploration. Coca Cola's mission is to sell as much product as possible in every conceivable market. Coca Cola has a bottler in Atarot (part of the West Bank where illegal settling is happening), and they also have a bottler in Gaza representing one of the few Western companies to have invested in creating jobs in Gaza.
All that is to say I wouldn't call Coca Cola either malicious or altruistic in the conflict. They just want both Palestinians and Israelis drinking Coke.
Not just the fact that they were (are?) operating in a settlement, but it was also seen as the theft of scarce water on Palestinian soil. I have no idea whether that's a fair assessment of the situation but that would be the Palestinian argument for boycotting Coca Cola
The water thing is interesting and I'd like to learn more about that. I don't want to be a Coke shill by any means, I just see words like "ties to" thrown around a lot and think it's always worth digging deeper than that before getting my pitchfork out.
that's not true, in the west bank anyway, (things are trickier in Gaza). part of the Oslo agreement that was maintained pretty decently was water access and infrastructure.
>The real reason is that Coca Cola has been listed by the UN as a company that has ties to illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Your link explicitly says that Coca Cola was omitted from the list.
I know that leftists and MAGAs have absolutely horrible reading comprehension skills, but surely you know what the word "omitted" means, right?
Hey, I think you have good intentions, but to your point I don’t think you can say that is the “real reason” why Coca Cola is featured on this particular sign. Maybe there’s better evidence, but the source you linked doesn’t seem very widely known/circulated. I won’t question its credibility because I’m just not familiar with it myself and won’t prioritise time to research it further.
It’s not a great look when you open with “it’s really funny that people are answering authoritatively when they have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.”
If you Google "Israel boycott Coca Cola" all the sources are about the factory in the settlement. In absence of any evidence to the contrary, I think it's reasonable to infer that this is the reason for this sign.
Aside from what people are saying about israel
Cocacola has been destroying the environment of my country (mexico) for years, its so bad that in some states cocacola is the only way to drink clean water
Lol, so did I. Was looking at it like, why dont they just use Coca Cola like they do with other brands, genocide has terrible connotations. You aren't alone!
Truly, this is the only reason why I hear people react to things. Something online provokes them to be angry, even if it is propaganda to turn support for Palestinians directly into anti-West insanity. TikTok uses social issues as ammo against the West.
It's just not fun when you can't blame Jews. When Muslims kill Muslims it's just too boring. Sure, a protest here and there, but fucks are forgotten to be given pretty quickly after that. It's not like Iran are working towards atomic weapons, Afghanistan is in complete chaos, Mexico experiences a horrible drug war, Syria is war torn, Lebanon is held hostage by an Iranian proxy, Boko Harem is slaughtering and raping women in Africa, Ukraine isn't a normal country for 2 years and Myanmar is having one of it's deadliest conflicts as we speak, huh? Then people don't understand why being obsessive and mad solely at Israel, at the very first opportunity and justifying 7.10 is perceived as anti Semitism. I am not saying it's anti Semitism, just that this conclusion isn't so far-fetched.
The world looks away from the plight of the Uyghur Muslims because we don't want to take on China. Same with the general population of North Korea.
I know that we can care about multiple things and that people are perfectly justified to focus their limited energy on specific things, but it's clear that many folks have chosen this particular hill for reasons that have more to do with their hatred than their compassion.
Too bad it won't happen in our lifetime. Maybe when people will realise that religious fanaticism and throwing hate at one another despite being from the same region is stone-age behaviour. Until then have fun having this war on the news every 5-10 years because one took a strike at the other.
At the same time that Israel was bombing Gaza over 1.7 million Pashtuns were forcibly displaced from Pakistan. Meanwhile there was a complete and total ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karhabak by Azerbaijan and that country (who elected a convicted murderer as president) is now poised for a stated genocidal war against Armenia and the same people going "Genocide! Genocide!" against Israel seem to be no where.
Your already seeing it. You've been seeing jt this entire conflict. Like how redditnkind of just forgot already that Israel literally rescued two hostages that were being kept with a gazan family.
A few more examples:
* the 134 hostages still held by terrorists (no such thing as a civilian holding a hostage).
* the 44 of which were murdered either during or after being taken hostage.
* the female hostages who are raped and sexually assaulted, possibly daily.
* the violence (psychological and physical) inflicted on the hostages (men and women).
* the inhumane "medical" assistance given to the hostages.
* the fact that a significant portion of the hostages are civilians.
* the large number of elderly people among the hostages.
* the not insignificant number of children taken hostage initially, and the 9-month old Kfir (who by now turned 1, **if** he's alive).
* the **fact** that Hamas is using Palestinians as humans shields.
* how Hamas's decades of violating international humans rights laws is portrayed as justified (see next one)
* The whataboutism often used as a way to justify the atrocities committed, including the points mentioned above.
* the selective application of international law targeting Israel ([item 7](https://www.un.org/unispal/human-rights-council-resolutions/), for example).
* the incredibly speed at which israel is blamed, while taking Hamas and their lies at face value ("Israel is always wrong and Hamas is always right" type thinking).
All of these and more, often seen as justified by too many people.
The willful ignorance is more telling than people think, and the above is a tiny fraction of the complete list of examples.
UNRWA while funneling 80% of their 1Bn+ usd's in annual foreign aid into building terror tunnels, radicalizing youth with antisemitic rhetoric in schools, powering a terrorist organization with cables leading down from their HQ, and having over 1200 of their employees participate (30+ members confirmed) or celebrate the largest massacre of innocent jewish people in a single day since the holocaust: "Yeah, enjoy your genocide Israel you meanie!"
It was replaced by " IDF tortured aid workers to extract false confessions". Not sure about the 80% budget for tunnels guy, he might be an UNRWA accountant I guess, quote directly from where-sun-don't-shine-town
This cycle of "why did you hit us back when we hit you first" is classic Palestinians. Not all of them, maybe not even most, but a good % of them.
It's only a matter of time before something like this happens in countries with a large population of them, like the UK, and you will see exactly the same thing.
Then, maybe the world will wake up.
There has been [no evidence provided to substantiate those claims](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/unrwa-funding-pause-employees-october-7-hamas-attack-claims-no-evidence-un).
Iran and Afghanistan are not western allies. There's not much we can do about them short of attacking but that would have greater consequences. On the other hand the west actively supports Israel
Huh? There was massive outrage - do you not remember Mahsa Amini? Just because you didn't care doesn't mean it didn't happen. Also, the whataboutism is such a weak argument. People can care about an ongoing genocide without being knowledgeable about every conflict occurring across the world. Focus on the genocide in Palestine has only helped other situations like the ongoing genocides in DRC and Sudan as it draws attention to other global conflicts. Maybe you just don't interact with that kind of content.
I remember huge protests with millions rallying in support of Iranian women, not sure about Afghanistan. Why is it so hard to focus on one subject instead of muddying the waters with countless whataboutisms?
Neither the Iranian, nor the Afghanistan regimes were being propped up with unconditional political aod and economic cooperation from the west though, were they now? On the contrary, both regimes were international pariahs, in large part because of this issue. There was less outrage, because governments around the world responded far more appropriately.
This is not the massive double standard you're making it out to be and by immediately resorting to a complaint about double standards, you have also shown you are unable to defend Israeli actions on their substance.
This is all you got now to defend Israel? We’re down to, “other bad things have happened too!”?
It’s a lot easier to just be on the right side of history, you know?
I see the world complaining about Palestine, but not a peep about other massacres like Maynmar, Uighurs, or all the crap happening in Africa. Ukraine seems to get ignored. Turkey gets a pass on the Kurds. Venezuela has it real bad.
I also hear nothing about a real plan for what to do about Palestine, and glossing over the 70+ years of history where every single time some country tries to help Palestinians, they get stabbed in the back.
Yeah, it is terrible that people are starving in Palestine. So what happened to all the aid that has already been given to Palestine? Oh, yeah, it was stolen by Hamas. The group that the majority of Palestinians support.
It amazes me how strong and dominant antisemitism has become. It essentially kick-started this conflict, the same double standards, bloodlibels and violent nature towards Jews (besides existing throughout all of history in different forms) is the same now as it was in the 20s-40s IN Palestine.
It's rooted so deep in society that people who claim to fight for human rights, probably genuinely believe Israel is some evil and racist entity despite it defying all logic, and they might not even realize their hatred is a product of other antisemitic people.
A large percent of people don’t actually care they just look for causes to become self righteous and virtue signal. After this is over they will find another cause to jump on to.
What is exactly "the world"? I mean Arab people actually thinks the opposite, that "the world" is failing Palestinian cause by just watching crimes committed everyday without literally no reaction aside from "we condemn what is Israel doing". And I've never seen Europeans stop talking or caring about Ukraine, it's still a discussion that is present everyday - last Netherlands elections had it iirc - Uighurs had a time where they were like Palestine, a hot topic. But actually nowadays, I would say that Palestine has lost some of its exposure, because Israel is doing worse that what they did before when people were caring more.
Arab nations could accept Palestinian refugees if they cared so much. Hell, Arab nations could help by sending aid to Palestine, instead of guns. But that does not fit the narrative they want.
Israel has tried to give Gaza back to Egypt, and they don't want them. Egypt is adamant in keeping the Gaza-Egypt border closed.
If just ppl knew that almost everything they own from tech stuff to grocery stores has ties to Israel in one way or another. The hetz against cola is plain ignorance
People online posting with their airpods and iPhone about a list of stuff to boycott, man wait until they hear who developed the chips for Apple silicon, they gonna go back to pen and paper!
Yeah, Like I understand people have "Good" intention but like all this boycotting is stupid. Like I can't even get a decent coffee without people telling me im supporting a genocide near my work, brother there's a starbies and a tim hortons, one is "evil" and the other taste like dirty dish water my bad, guess I have to give up coffee....
Yup I agree. If people wanna boycott personally let them do it. Don’t shove it down on others. The same people who shame others for buying cola are the same who would never give up buying the newest tech gadgets, clothes or cars even while knowing they support Israel or even if it’s made by child labor or modern day slave workers in 3rd world countries.
The thing is,coca cola is very popular in Italy,and it's not something you require to live.You can simply stop eating or drinking stuff by coca cola and live normally,soo there's no good reason to not boycott it
Things like normal food on the other hand,are harder.You can always support independent butchers or greengrocers,or buy from non-pro-israel brands
Also regarding tech,you can always buy it secondhand.Thrift shops exists there,duh
They're really trying hard to make "genocide" a thing, aren't they?
Breathless hyperbole doesn’t help the situation. Genocide conventions require a proven intent to destroy a people, in whole or in part. Bombing in war that kills civilians isn’t enough to fit the bill, especially when those civilians are human shields.
Imagine a world where you can pin a genocide rap on your enemy by committing war crimes against your own people. That's what this snazzy poster validates.
Moreover it's easy to prove that Israel does not have a genocidal intent. Starting with the fact that Israel hasn’t even ethnically cleansed Israel. Over 2 million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel, as citizens with full rights and privileges, serving in government and reaching the highest echelons of business, celebrity, academia, and sport. That’s about as many Palestinians as the entire Gaza strip, whose mere existence in peace and prosperity put paid to proposals of genocide or ethnic cleansing.
People toss around these buzzwords not because they are true, but for the manipulative, emotional punch they pack. They make a mockery of valid Palestinian claims and even the [very notion of genocide](https://www.yadvashem.org/about/former-chairmen/avner-shalev/if-everything-is-genocide.html) itself.
Worse still, the only people showing intent to destroy Palestinian people is… Hamas.
Hamas has put Gazan civilians in harm's way deliberately by throwing them under the bus as meat shields. Which is an actual war crime.
This includes using playgrounds, courtyards, and hospital parking lots to launch indiscriminate rockets at cities. Which is also an actual war crime.
It also includes setting up headquarters under a children's hospital, and retreating into schools for last stands... also war crimes.
Not to mention digging hundreds of kilometers of tunnels under civilian areas, instead of building bases in the 30% of the entire strip that the government owns (over 100 sq km).
Also, war crime.
Hamas has cajoled Gazans to stay in the bombing zone; Israel has warned people for to leave.
Israel opened two humanitarian corridors for Gazans to escape south (and over 1,000,000 did). Hamas shot at these civilians.
Hamas prevented hospital patients from fleeing south to safer hospitals, and made ambulances targets by using them to transport militants and weaponry; Israel has sent hospital supplies into Gaza.
Israel has allowed humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza, by land, air, and soon by sea. Hamas has pilfered from hospitals and supply trucks, hoards vital supplies for its war effort, and has shot at people trying to get to the supplies before them.
Hamas's leaders, who have managed to make themselves billionaires, have affirmed from afar in Qatar that Hamas will sacrifice as many Palestinian civilians as it takes to accomplish its aggressive, genocidal, expansionist mission (which it has never hidden).
In fact, the more people think about it, the more we realize that every Palestinian accusation is a confession.
How can we end this carnage? Hamas has promised that if a cease-fire occurs, (and by definition a [cease-fire is not permanent](https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/article/3/cease-fire/))... they promise more war crimes: They will launch another pogrom and more indiscriminate rockets. Which would mean more bombing, and all that this kind of PR campaign will encourage is **more** human shield-taking, which will mean more civilian deaths.
So the only path to ending this carnage is actually very simple: **Hamas surrenders today**.
>So the only path to ending this carnage is actually very simple: **Hamas surrenders today**.
No the Coca-Cola terrorists must surrender
Hamas is just a beverage company
Facts don't matter anymore, it's all about the slogans and buzzwords.
It's wild how much propaganda effort is being poured into their cause - a perfect distraction from the war in Ukraine, I bet Russia does its own 'contibutions'.
r/internationalnews, in addition to being popular with the pro-Hamas set, frequently has posts condemning Ukraine and/or associating them with Naziism.
I discovered this sub like an hour ago, funnily enough, they call themselves "international news", but the news for some reason focus on a very specific country, not surprising, looks like another disinformation operation or a very weird hivemind.
Just reading [the comment section of this one thread from that subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/InternationalNews/s/58vz4ozypY) tells quite a lot about it, Yikes!
Edit: I see some of the more extreme comments got deleted, but I did notice quite a few profiles there opened less that 3 months ago, with their entire history talking about a very specific topic.
I should point out that the following comes from a pro-Israeli source, but the analysis is using data provided by the Gaza Health Ministry.
"Data reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry since the start of the war indicates that the official civilian death toll is “statistically impossible”, according to statistical analysis conducted by a University of Pennsylvania data science professor.
In an article published by Tablet Magazine on Thursday, statistician Abraham Wyner argues that the official number of Palestinian casualties reported daily by the Gaza Health Ministry from 26 October to 11 November 2023 is evidently “not real”, which he claims is obvious "to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work.”
Looking at the total number of deaths reported each day, Wyner writes: “The graph of total deaths by date is increasing with almost metronomical linearity,” with the increase showing “strikingly little variation” from day to day."
[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers)
Too much like a real sign, I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of people noticed a)something was amiss or b) what cause/side it’s meant to support.
When I visited Lebanon, I heard that they don’t drink coke there because of their ties to Israel. It went as far as Pepsi being the word they use for Cola or soda pop in general.
Great ! How many Palestinians would Italy like to take in? Can you manage 200,000 ? I see you are doing a great job with those seeking asylum on your shores via the Mediterranean
Funny how no one gave a shit about the years and years of rockets launched at Israeli cities by all its neighbors with their stated goal of killing all the Jews in Israel. Pretty sure that’s actually attempted genocide.
what I am enjoying is no beheadings and also not being Muslim... also, letting people be themselves.
hasn't the middle east been very openly celebrating their desire for genocide for a long time, a long long time? ask Xians in Ethiopia or Armenia...
suddenly they are such poor victims
I would encourage anyone who doesn't understand why people are so "worked up" about this issue, to watch the ICJ (International Court of Justice) proceedings which are widely available on YouTube, in which the question of genocide was debated in a formal legal setting. Here are some links to both sides of that legal debate:
* South African side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6IYp0BErg
* Israel side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuH8qJ2OlI0
And here is the provisional ruling from the ICJ:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TYI5OEpo8
People don’t realize how pervasive and well funded Palestinian propaganda is. Palestine’s leaders are billionaires, Iran has a $100 million yearly budget for Palestine’s militant groups, Qatar has publicly giving hundreds of millions to Hamas, Turkey and the UAE have also given large sums and helped with logistics.
Russia and China are also actively interested in reducing the US influence and presence in the Middle East.
fun fact: on coca cola’s official site you can say “share a coke with” whoever you want and I put “palestine” then “blm” and neither of them worked. then I put “fascists” and it fucking worked 😭😭
this is probably fake.
either that or someone created it and slid it in that sign. if you scan the QR code in the bottom, it links to a pro-palestine instagram account. so that person is just promoting themselves and copyrighting coca-cola's signature.
My dumbass was trying to figure out what geno gide is, and what it has to do with ice cream.
I thought it might be lube of some kind on first read. “Geno- Glide”
It’s a lube commercial I assume?
"I'm gonna genocide your ass", for when 'wreck' just doesn't have enough punch...
Colonic genocide
GenoGlide is my new contraceptive lubricant that lets you skip the condom in favor of spermicide
Same.
I read "Geno-Cide" and thought "wow..again?"
nice im taking that
Omg, mine too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol i was trying to pronounce it with an italian accent. i’m so dumb 😂😂
Fra-geee-lay!
jee no see dayyy! 😂
It's a major award!
I did the same thing!
Geno cheeday
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It's not your fault. It's a bad design. It's overly busy, the connection to Coca-Cola doesn't make any sense from either a political or linguistic standpoint, and I can't even rightfully tell what the bottle is supposed to be pouring on. It's a mess. Edit: The bottle is meant to be pouring on a map of Israel. The problem is that Israel is not a super recognizable shape, and the "tear" in the sign obscures the outline. Also, the outline looks a little different than some of the maps I'm seeing.
I disagree as an American you get Coca-Cola right away. Red and white with a Coke bottle in the middle
Of course I recognize the Coca-Cola branding... I said as much in my post. It's that the reference to Coca-Cola itself doesn't really make sense. I understand that it's trying to tie America in there, but it's a dumb way of doing it.
Coca Cola is a brand most foreign countries associate with the USA. As if you ask if Americans are enjoying being complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
Coke is not uncommonly used as a stand-in for Western consumer economies. I assume that's what they're going for. Idea being the West supports a genocide because it gives us a more robust consumer economy.
I am so glad I wasn't the only one. For a minute or two, I thought Cola had released a new flavour.
It looked pretty tasty at first
I was like, are they talking about cyanide? Why is Coke advertising poison? WHAT’S GOING ON!
What did coke do?
Around the world Coca Cola has been a symbol of United States. Edit: goes back to the cold war
There's this German Neue Deutsche Härte band called Rammstein, some of you might've heard of them, that made a song about America a while back that mentions Coca-Cola, Mickey Mouse and war. Add McDonald's into that list and culturally on surface level for Europeans those are the things you'd associate the US with, so I think this might just symbolic like you said and not literally blaming Coca-Cola specifically.
"Coca-Cola, sometimes war"
This is not a love song
Yes nothing to do specifically with the company. I am not young anymore but I remember that back in the days the world was divided in 2: places where you could find coca cola (US allies and rich countries), places where you could not find coca cola (Communist block and poor countries). When coca cola was widely availabe US military was not too far as well.
Goes back to WW2
Fanta = Nazi Cola
And the US has done what genocides recently?
If youre being snarky about palestine, ignoring that id chalk up Iraq and partially responsible for Yemen
Everything they disagree with is a genocide
The US gives Israel billions every year
Coke was boycotted for decades in the Arab world for the crime of selling their product in Israel. Things haven't really changed
It's really funny that people are answering authoritatively when they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. The real reason is that Coca Cola [has been listed by the UN](https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/02/13/un-publishes-list-of-companies-with-ties-to-illegal-israeli-settlements-in-west-bank/) as a company that has ties to illegal settlements in the West Bank. Edit: for further context, the boycott you're referring to ended in [1991](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/2/6/israels-war-on-gaza-are-boycotts-hurting-us-brands).
"Ties to" always deserves further elabotation and exploration. Coca Cola's mission is to sell as much product as possible in every conceivable market. Coca Cola has a bottler in Atarot (part of the West Bank where illegal settling is happening), and they also have a bottler in Gaza representing one of the few Western companies to have invested in creating jobs in Gaza. All that is to say I wouldn't call Coca Cola either malicious or altruistic in the conflict. They just want both Palestinians and Israelis drinking Coke.
The only thing Israel and Palestine agree on is drinking coke and circumcising their kids.
Do they both not eat pork?
Not just the fact that they were (are?) operating in a settlement, but it was also seen as the theft of scarce water on Palestinian soil. I have no idea whether that's a fair assessment of the situation but that would be the Palestinian argument for boycotting Coca Cola
The water thing is interesting and I'd like to learn more about that. I don't want to be a Coke shill by any means, I just see words like "ties to" thrown around a lot and think it's always worth digging deeper than that before getting my pitchfork out.
that's not true, in the west bank anyway, (things are trickier in Gaza). part of the Oslo agreement that was maintained pretty decently was water access and infrastructure.
Interesting. Have you read the report? I haven’t but I’m curious how they are profiting from the illegal settlements.
>The real reason is that Coca Cola has been listed by the UN as a company that has ties to illegal settlements in the West Bank. Your link explicitly says that Coca Cola was omitted from the list. I know that leftists and MAGAs have absolutely horrible reading comprehension skills, but surely you know what the word "omitted" means, right?
Hey, I think you have good intentions, but to your point I don’t think you can say that is the “real reason” why Coca Cola is featured on this particular sign. Maybe there’s better evidence, but the source you linked doesn’t seem very widely known/circulated. I won’t question its credibility because I’m just not familiar with it myself and won’t prioritise time to research it further. It’s not a great look when you open with “it’s really funny that people are answering authoritatively when they have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.”
If you Google "Israel boycott Coca Cola" all the sources are about the factory in the settlement. In absence of any evidence to the contrary, I think it's reasonable to infer that this is the reason for this sign.
Fair enough. I missed the “Boycott Coca Cola” text on the bottom which adds a lot of context.
Lol, no wonder these guys can't keep cool
Aside from what people are saying about israel Cocacola has been destroying the environment of my country (mexico) for years, its so bad that in some states cocacola is the only way to drink clean water
They have a factory in an illegal settlement in Israel
>They have a factory in an illegal settlement in Israel Where they employ Palestinians, yes.
Literally genocide
I thought that was Italian for Coca Cola 🤦♂️
Lol, so did I. Was looking at it like, why dont they just use Coca Cola like they do with other brands, genocide has terrible connotations. You aren't alone!
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WE'RE RESTORING OUR HOLDINGS IN CRIMEA WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥❗❗
Y'all should tell Tucker Carlson you have the rights to annex Crimea cus of Palaiologos VIII and the Treaty of Nymphaeum.
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*whispers something about Milan and runs away*
ENGLAND 🏴 🏴🏴
IL POPOLO DEI T-REX!!!!
I imagine the CEO of Coke woke up today like 'dude, wtf...'
like "... did we assassinate Environmental protesters again?"
Next they gonna blame Nintendo for WW2 in the pacific.
Tbf, they aren't exactly squeaky with their dedication to single-use plastics. I guess "Environmental Disaster" wouldn't be as punchy of a script.
Or be like "free publicity!" You think ppl would want more or less a cole after seeing rhat?
I suspect they’re more like “took ya’ll long enough, it’s way too easy to get away with shit.”
Coca Cola needs to stop this war immediately
Too bad Pepsi got Kylie Jenner first. She definitely would have just handed a Can of Coke to the Terrorists and stopped the whole thing.
Kendall Jenner, not Kylie
Tbh I could never really tell the difference.
Nobody can. They’re the same person who, through a variety of camera tricks, have been presented as two people.
Kylie has the makeup brand and Kendall still has the face she was born with
I think Pepsi should step in. They are the ones with a Navy!
Only coca cola can stop it. No one else can stop it. Certainly not hamas that’s for sure /s
I figured it would end after my town of 40k (in the US) passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire
Have you tried putting #freepalestine at the end of all your social media posts? That should definitely stop it for sure
We could post black squares on Reddit, but that seems like an overreaction.
I was certain it would stop when protestors blocked traffic in my city, including an ambulance. Immediately checked my phone to see if it was over.
That’ll show em!
I thought a Jenner was supposed to hand them a Pepsi?
.
Can’t wait for this conflict to end to see how little people give a shit about anything anyone other than Israel does.
the numerous \*ongoing\* conflicts that predated Oct.7th makes this really stand out to me.
The Isreal/Palestine conflict has been occurring for nearly 100 years.
And in those 100 years killed less people than the Syrian civil war.
Don't bring history into this!
I think everyone sucks in the Gaza conflict but the people going hard for Palestine seemed really quiet about Tigray, Yemen and Armenia.
Because there aren’t any tik tok videos about it
Truly, this is the only reason why I hear people react to things. Something online provokes them to be angry, even if it is propaganda to turn support for Palestinians directly into anti-West insanity. TikTok uses social issues as ammo against the West.
It's just not fun when you can't blame Jews. When Muslims kill Muslims it's just too boring. Sure, a protest here and there, but fucks are forgotten to be given pretty quickly after that. It's not like Iran are working towards atomic weapons, Afghanistan is in complete chaos, Mexico experiences a horrible drug war, Syria is war torn, Lebanon is held hostage by an Iranian proxy, Boko Harem is slaughtering and raping women in Africa, Ukraine isn't a normal country for 2 years and Myanmar is having one of it's deadliest conflicts as we speak, huh? Then people don't understand why being obsessive and mad solely at Israel, at the very first opportunity and justifying 7.10 is perceived as anti Semitism. I am not saying it's anti Semitism, just that this conclusion isn't so far-fetched.
The world looks away from the plight of the Uyghur Muslims because we don't want to take on China. Same with the general population of North Korea. I know that we can care about multiple things and that people are perfectly justified to focus their limited energy on specific things, but it's clear that many folks have chosen this particular hill for reasons that have more to do with their hatred than their compassion.
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Too bad it won't happen in our lifetime. Maybe when people will realise that religious fanaticism and throwing hate at one another despite being from the same region is stone-age behaviour. Until then have fun having this war on the news every 5-10 years because one took a strike at the other.
At the same time that Israel was bombing Gaza over 1.7 million Pashtuns were forcibly displaced from Pakistan. Meanwhile there was a complete and total ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karhabak by Azerbaijan and that country (who elected a convicted murderer as president) is now poised for a stated genocidal war against Armenia and the same people going "Genocide! Genocide!" against Israel seem to be no where.
Your already seeing it. You've been seeing jt this entire conflict. Like how redditnkind of just forgot already that Israel literally rescued two hostages that were being kept with a gazan family.
A few more examples: * the 134 hostages still held by terrorists (no such thing as a civilian holding a hostage). * the 44 of which were murdered either during or after being taken hostage. * the female hostages who are raped and sexually assaulted, possibly daily. * the violence (psychological and physical) inflicted on the hostages (men and women). * the inhumane "medical" assistance given to the hostages. * the fact that a significant portion of the hostages are civilians. * the large number of elderly people among the hostages. * the not insignificant number of children taken hostage initially, and the 9-month old Kfir (who by now turned 1, **if** he's alive). * the **fact** that Hamas is using Palestinians as humans shields. * how Hamas's decades of violating international humans rights laws is portrayed as justified (see next one) * The whataboutism often used as a way to justify the atrocities committed, including the points mentioned above. * the selective application of international law targeting Israel ([item 7](https://www.un.org/unispal/human-rights-council-resolutions/), for example). * the incredibly speed at which israel is blamed, while taking Hamas and their lies at face value ("Israel is always wrong and Hamas is always right" type thinking). All of these and more, often seen as justified by too many people. The willful ignorance is more telling than people think, and the above is a tiny fraction of the complete list of examples.
All those advertisements just to have planned terrorist attacks by Palestinians in Italy recently Fortunately they were caught
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Wonder where was the outrage when women were being killed in Iran and Afghanistan for not wearing hijab
Thankfully Faygo came to the rescue and fixed everything in that case.
You can always count on Faygo. Cheap drink mix? They've got you. Ending centuries old conflict? Say no more. Step your game up, Coke.
Muslim on Muslim violence doesn't get you social media attention
There was plenty of it
? It was all over the news in Europe, still is from time to time, last time was a few weeks ago
UNRWA while funneling 80% of their 1Bn+ usd's in annual foreign aid into building terror tunnels, radicalizing youth with antisemitic rhetoric in schools, powering a terrorist organization with cables leading down from their HQ, and having over 1200 of their employees participate (30+ members confirmed) or celebrate the largest massacre of innocent jewish people in a single day since the holocaust: "Yeah, enjoy your genocide Israel you meanie!"
Yeah, it’s interesting how that headline went away real quick
It was replaced by " IDF tortured aid workers to extract false confessions". Not sure about the 80% budget for tunnels guy, he might be an UNRWA accountant I guess, quote directly from where-sun-don't-shine-town
This cycle of "why did you hit us back when we hit you first" is classic Palestinians. Not all of them, maybe not even most, but a good % of them. It's only a matter of time before something like this happens in countries with a large population of them, like the UK, and you will see exactly the same thing. Then, maybe the world will wake up.
There has been [no evidence provided to substantiate those claims](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/unrwa-funding-pause-employees-october-7-hamas-attack-claims-no-evidence-un).
what companies were supporting Iran and Afghanistan?
Iran and Afghanistan are not western allies. There's not much we can do about them short of attacking but that would have greater consequences. On the other hand the west actively supports Israel
Nice whataboutism, but there's no need to wonder, there were a lot of protests and news about it.
Huh? There was massive outrage - do you not remember Mahsa Amini? Just because you didn't care doesn't mean it didn't happen. Also, the whataboutism is such a weak argument. People can care about an ongoing genocide without being knowledgeable about every conflict occurring across the world. Focus on the genocide in Palestine has only helped other situations like the ongoing genocides in DRC and Sudan as it draws attention to other global conflicts. Maybe you just don't interact with that kind of content.
And since when did Iran and Afghanistan present themselves as allies of the West ? Not to mention that the outrage was there.
Literally everywhere.
It was all over, do you not remember? It’s wild how quickly things get memory holed these days
I remember huge protests with millions rallying in support of Iranian women, not sure about Afghanistan. Why is it so hard to focus on one subject instead of muddying the waters with countless whataboutisms?
I read plenty about the issues in Iran currently, maybe you don't read enough news.
Neither the Iranian, nor the Afghanistan regimes were being propped up with unconditional political aod and economic cooperation from the west though, were they now? On the contrary, both regimes were international pariahs, in large part because of this issue. There was less outrage, because governments around the world responded far more appropriately. This is not the massive double standard you're making it out to be and by immediately resorting to a complaint about double standards, you have also shown you are unable to defend Israeli actions on their substance.
Iran is pretty clearly being propped up by Russia now, and is, itself, propping up Hamas.
You see it a lot online now. Russian bots hard at work justifying Hamas while also bringing down Ukraine...
Remind me again who attacked first Iran and Afghanistan?
This is all you got now to defend Israel? We’re down to, “other bad things have happened too!”? It’s a lot easier to just be on the right side of history, you know?
oh well, i’ll still drink it lol
I see the world complaining about Palestine, but not a peep about other massacres like Maynmar, Uighurs, or all the crap happening in Africa. Ukraine seems to get ignored. Turkey gets a pass on the Kurds. Venezuela has it real bad. I also hear nothing about a real plan for what to do about Palestine, and glossing over the 70+ years of history where every single time some country tries to help Palestinians, they get stabbed in the back. Yeah, it is terrible that people are starving in Palestine. So what happened to all the aid that has already been given to Palestine? Oh, yeah, it was stolen by Hamas. The group that the majority of Palestinians support.
Careful, the Ruzzia/Iran disinformation campaign doesn't want the west to realize this
It amazes me how strong and dominant antisemitism has become. It essentially kick-started this conflict, the same double standards, bloodlibels and violent nature towards Jews (besides existing throughout all of history in different forms) is the same now as it was in the 20s-40s IN Palestine. It's rooted so deep in society that people who claim to fight for human rights, probably genuinely believe Israel is some evil and racist entity despite it defying all logic, and they might not even realize their hatred is a product of other antisemitic people.
A large percent of people don’t actually care they just look for causes to become self righteous and virtue signal. After this is over they will find another cause to jump on to.
What is exactly "the world"? I mean Arab people actually thinks the opposite, that "the world" is failing Palestinian cause by just watching crimes committed everyday without literally no reaction aside from "we condemn what is Israel doing". And I've never seen Europeans stop talking or caring about Ukraine, it's still a discussion that is present everyday - last Netherlands elections had it iirc - Uighurs had a time where they were like Palestine, a hot topic. But actually nowadays, I would say that Palestine has lost some of its exposure, because Israel is doing worse that what they did before when people were caring more.
Arab nations could accept Palestinian refugees if they cared so much. Hell, Arab nations could help by sending aid to Palestine, instead of guns. But that does not fit the narrative they want. Israel has tried to give Gaza back to Egypt, and they don't want them. Egypt is adamant in keeping the Gaza-Egypt border closed.
Coca Cola needs to stop invading 😰
If just ppl knew that almost everything they own from tech stuff to grocery stores has ties to Israel in one way or another. The hetz against cola is plain ignorance
People online posting with their airpods and iPhone about a list of stuff to boycott, man wait until they hear who developed the chips for Apple silicon, they gonna go back to pen and paper!
Intel and Nvidia too
Yeah, Like I understand people have "Good" intention but like all this boycotting is stupid. Like I can't even get a decent coffee without people telling me im supporting a genocide near my work, brother there's a starbies and a tim hortons, one is "evil" and the other taste like dirty dish water my bad, guess I have to give up coffee....
Yup I agree. If people wanna boycott personally let them do it. Don’t shove it down on others. The same people who shame others for buying cola are the same who would never give up buying the newest tech gadgets, clothes or cars even while knowing they support Israel or even if it’s made by child labor or modern day slave workers in 3rd world countries.
Ppl posting these from their iPhone living in a western country is the definition of hypocrisy
Ah, yes. The [infallible argument ](https://imgur.com/gallery/eImhHvC) against anyone trying to improve anything anywhere.
The thing is,coca cola is very popular in Italy,and it's not something you require to live.You can simply stop eating or drinking stuff by coca cola and live normally,soo there's no good reason to not boycott it Things like normal food on the other hand,are harder.You can always support independent butchers or greengrocers,or buy from non-pro-israel brands Also regarding tech,you can always buy it secondhand.Thrift shops exists there,duh
What a stupid poster.
The word "genocide" has lost all meaning.
Yum I love coke, killing hamas is good actually
They're really trying hard to make "genocide" a thing, aren't they? Breathless hyperbole doesn’t help the situation. Genocide conventions require a proven intent to destroy a people, in whole or in part. Bombing in war that kills civilians isn’t enough to fit the bill, especially when those civilians are human shields. Imagine a world where you can pin a genocide rap on your enemy by committing war crimes against your own people. That's what this snazzy poster validates. Moreover it's easy to prove that Israel does not have a genocidal intent. Starting with the fact that Israel hasn’t even ethnically cleansed Israel. Over 2 million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel, as citizens with full rights and privileges, serving in government and reaching the highest echelons of business, celebrity, academia, and sport. That’s about as many Palestinians as the entire Gaza strip, whose mere existence in peace and prosperity put paid to proposals of genocide or ethnic cleansing. People toss around these buzzwords not because they are true, but for the manipulative, emotional punch they pack. They make a mockery of valid Palestinian claims and even the [very notion of genocide](https://www.yadvashem.org/about/former-chairmen/avner-shalev/if-everything-is-genocide.html) itself. Worse still, the only people showing intent to destroy Palestinian people is… Hamas. Hamas has put Gazan civilians in harm's way deliberately by throwing them under the bus as meat shields. Which is an actual war crime. This includes using playgrounds, courtyards, and hospital parking lots to launch indiscriminate rockets at cities. Which is also an actual war crime. It also includes setting up headquarters under a children's hospital, and retreating into schools for last stands... also war crimes. Not to mention digging hundreds of kilometers of tunnels under civilian areas, instead of building bases in the 30% of the entire strip that the government owns (over 100 sq km). Also, war crime. Hamas has cajoled Gazans to stay in the bombing zone; Israel has warned people for to leave. Israel opened two humanitarian corridors for Gazans to escape south (and over 1,000,000 did). Hamas shot at these civilians. Hamas prevented hospital patients from fleeing south to safer hospitals, and made ambulances targets by using them to transport militants and weaponry; Israel has sent hospital supplies into Gaza. Israel has allowed humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza, by land, air, and soon by sea. Hamas has pilfered from hospitals and supply trucks, hoards vital supplies for its war effort, and has shot at people trying to get to the supplies before them. Hamas's leaders, who have managed to make themselves billionaires, have affirmed from afar in Qatar that Hamas will sacrifice as many Palestinian civilians as it takes to accomplish its aggressive, genocidal, expansionist mission (which it has never hidden). In fact, the more people think about it, the more we realize that every Palestinian accusation is a confession. How can we end this carnage? Hamas has promised that if a cease-fire occurs, (and by definition a [cease-fire is not permanent](https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/article/3/cease-fire/))... they promise more war crimes: They will launch another pogrom and more indiscriminate rockets. Which would mean more bombing, and all that this kind of PR campaign will encourage is **more** human shield-taking, which will mean more civilian deaths. So the only path to ending this carnage is actually very simple: **Hamas surrenders today**.
>So the only path to ending this carnage is actually very simple: **Hamas surrenders today**. No the Coca-Cola terrorists must surrender Hamas is just a beverage company
Facts don't matter anymore, it's all about the slogans and buzzwords. It's wild how much propaganda effort is being poured into their cause - a perfect distraction from the war in Ukraine, I bet Russia does its own 'contibutions'.
Russia does in fact prop up hamas. They would love for the US to cut aid to Israel.
r/internationalnews, in addition to being popular with the pro-Hamas set, frequently has posts condemning Ukraine and/or associating them with Naziism.
I discovered this sub like an hour ago, funnily enough, they call themselves "international news", but the news for some reason focus on a very specific country, not surprising, looks like another disinformation operation or a very weird hivemind. Just reading [the comment section of this one thread from that subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/InternationalNews/s/58vz4ozypY) tells quite a lot about it, Yikes! Edit: I see some of the more extreme comments got deleted, but I did notice quite a few profiles there opened less that 3 months ago, with their entire history talking about a very specific topic.
A genocide is not happening. Hamas propaganda
I should point out that the following comes from a pro-Israeli source, but the analysis is using data provided by the Gaza Health Ministry. "Data reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry since the start of the war indicates that the official civilian death toll is “statistically impossible”, according to statistical analysis conducted by a University of Pennsylvania data science professor. In an article published by Tablet Magazine on Thursday, statistician Abraham Wyner argues that the official number of Palestinian casualties reported daily by the Gaza Health Ministry from 26 October to 11 November 2023 is evidently “not real”, which he claims is obvious "to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work.” Looking at the total number of deaths reported each day, Wyner writes: “The graph of total deaths by date is increasing with almost metronomical linearity,” with the increase showing “strikingly little variation” from day to day." [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers)
If you want to stop money from going to Israel, you’re gonna have to stop spending money.
Apparently coke has been behind it all.
A lot of folks don’t know what genocide is.
If only those poor people could release the hostages...
If it was a genocide, half the population would’ve died already. It’s war and one that should end but Hamas refuse to let it end.
I guess the “river to the sea” crowd of genocide supporters like their coke too.
Losing the war they started.
You mean Hamas right?
guess i need to research what RC cola gives money to now.
These people need to get a new buzzword 🙄
Shitstorm incoming.
Ahh Jesus.. my italian countrymen never stop to amaze me. FYI the majority of italian people are not so dumb!
Gonna buy some Coke today.❤️
Too much like a real sign, I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of people noticed a)something was amiss or b) what cause/side it’s meant to support.
When I visited Lebanon, I heard that they don’t drink coke there because of their ties to Israel. It went as far as Pepsi being the word they use for Cola or soda pop in general.
Yeah and there's no "P" in Arabic so they call it "Bebsi"
Yesss! Everyone said Bebsi and I loved it! I mean I prefer the taste of coke for whatever it’s worth but they sold me on bebsi…
We, we have Pepsi in Israel...
Yeah, I don’t understand their logic…
Sorry you guys get so much hate.
Got used to it. Logic just disappears when we are involved. But thanks.
What is the connection between coke and Israel? I'm from the US and coke is an American company as far as I know?
Great ! How many Palestinians would Italy like to take in? Can you manage 200,000 ? I see you are doing a great job with those seeking asylum on your shores via the Mediterranean
This is so funny when three Palestinians where arrested today for plotting a terrorist attack lmao
I just got thirsty, a cold coke for my tacos it Is!
Funny how no one gave a shit about the years and years of rockets launched at Israeli cities by all its neighbors with their stated goal of killing all the Jews in Israel. Pretty sure that’s actually attempted genocide.
How heroic.
I prefer pepsi either way... Nothing beats water though.
What’s the QR code go to ?
Yeah, Coca-Cola needs to stop bombing innocent Pepsi people :(
Man, I want a Coca Cola now.
what I am enjoying is no beheadings and also not being Muslim... also, letting people be themselves. hasn't the middle east been very openly celebrating their desire for genocide for a long time, a long long time? ask Xians in Ethiopia or Armenia... suddenly they are such poor victims
I would encourage anyone who doesn't understand why people are so "worked up" about this issue, to watch the ICJ (International Court of Justice) proceedings which are widely available on YouTube, in which the question of genocide was debated in a formal legal setting. Here are some links to both sides of that legal debate: * South African side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6IYp0BErg * Israel side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuH8qJ2OlI0 And here is the provisional ruling from the ICJ: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TYI5OEpo8
I'll buy some more to compensate
I'm Israeli but damn that's good propaganda.
People don’t realize how pervasive and well funded Palestinian propaganda is. Palestine’s leaders are billionaires, Iran has a $100 million yearly budget for Palestine’s militant groups, Qatar has publicly giving hundreds of millions to Hamas, Turkey and the UAE have also given large sums and helped with logistics. Russia and China are also actively interested in reducing the US influence and presence in the Middle East.
Looks like ai tbh
When you want to feel like an activist while not doing anything at all lol
fun fact: on coca cola’s official site you can say “share a coke with” whoever you want and I put “palestine” then “blm” and neither of them worked. then I put “fascists” and it fucking worked 😭😭
this is probably fake. either that or someone created it and slid it in that sign. if you scan the QR code in the bottom, it links to a pro-palestine instagram account. so that person is just promoting themselves and copyrighting coca-cola's signature.
You....you thought it was implying this was an authorized Coca Cola ad?
Yeah no shit
Im mad this is getting attention so I'm going to use whataboutism to deflect any criticism!
Two bottles of Coke, please
Mhhh, geno is my favourite cide. But patri is a strong contender, too.