this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
145 points (96.8% liked)

World News

38968 readers
3492 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 53 points 8 months ago

Good.

Go fash, lose cash.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Here's hoping the BDS movement gains steam to send those numbers even higher.

[–] roastedDeflator@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago

In the same time Israel government gives financial incentives for new a settler-colonial migration wave, notably from Western countries only.

Israeli Government to Reward New Immigrants Who Settle in Country's North, South and West Bank - Haatertz - 15 Febr 2024

Against a backdrop of growing interest in immigration to Israel from Jewish people in France, Britain, America and Canada, Israel plans to give financial aid to new 'olim' in a bid to increase immigration from Western countries

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's OK, the U.S. can cover that for them. No worries, Bibi.

Someone remind me what the U.S. gets out of the BILLIONS we spend on them every year? What do we get? Genocide of vulnerable people? Preservation of some conservative fairy tale about "end-times"? Access to oil being sold by completely different countries who already sell it to us directly? What exactly?

Stop supporting them, for fucks sake. We can use that money on important things instead.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The US gets an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East they can use as a hub for launching terrorists attacks

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can we just get healthcare instead? Israel has healthcare. Yet we are giving them billions a year. Where the fuck is our healthcare?

Conservatives are pure garbage.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Someone remind me what the U.S. gets out of the BILLIONS we spend on them every year? What do we get? Genocide of vulnerable people? Preservation of some conservative fairy tale about “end-times”? Access to oil being sold by completely different countries who already sell it to us directly? What exactly?

Well, Israel gets to kill US citizens, sell US technology to China, betray US intelligence agents, and cause incredible damage to the US's reputation internationally.

I don't see a downside! /s

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Fucking embargo these monsters. See how that effects their economy.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

NICE!

Boycott McDonalds

Boycott Intel

Boycott Starbucks

And whenever you see Dates that have origin country "israel" in the supermarket, take a box and put it back on a different shelf.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Making the minimum wage worker who stocks shelves have to put back the boxes you misplace isn’t going to win the war.

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Hey hes a job creator. If the stores too neat they'll start downsizing staff.

[–] lukewarmtuna@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The idea is that once it's moved by customers to a different section, the store will treat the product as bad and toss it out. Yes you're right more work for the minimum wage guy who has to throw it out now, but the idea is that enough loss on that specific product and the manager may stop ordering that/those brands all together. They might not realize the products are related to Israel, just that the other brands are still selling, so by happenstance, the Israeli dates look inferior due to perceived customer purchasing habits. Eventually they may not be ordered anymore and that affects the parent company in Israel.

It's a really long game, but that's what I gather the goal of that specific protest would be.

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's not how it works anywhere I've heard of (and I've lived in the USA and Europe and worked in an American grocery store). Maybe if it's a refrigerated product in the US (or vandalized somehow), but that's not the case with dates.

[–] lukewarmtuna@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Not saying that is actually how it will play out, I agree with you that it only actually happens to refrigerated or frozen products (that get discarded when misplaced). That's not to say it doesn't also happen to shelf stable products too and we don't know about it, but I think that is unlikely.

I was just clarifying what I interpreted the original commenters intentions behind said protest would be, not that it would be effective. I believe the interpretation that it's just about messing with low income workers to be not quite what the intention was.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just like those poor minimum wage McDonalds workers being the true victims of pro Palestinians 😔

If it happens enough store chains will tend to see a pattern. McDonalds sure did.

[–] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Put it in the freezer with the chicken.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago

Oh no, not the rich people's yacht money!

[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just wait till the sanctions start.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they should be sanctioned but I can't see the USA letting that happen

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

It was tongue in cheek. The US one party system wouldn't allow for that.