[ April 15, 2024 ]
Contact Coke and urge them to condemn these Nazi calls for boycott of the Jewish State. These boycotts are illegal and inhumane. Preceding Kristallnacht, the Nazis called for Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. This was the direct antecedent to the BDS movement and the motives of this Muslim Jew-hater.
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“Coca-Cola Palestine CEO Urges Boycott of Israel,” by Ronn Torossian, The Observer, June 15, 2015
Zahi Khouri Calls for sanctions against the Jewish State and claims Israel stole Palestinian land
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On Coca-Cola’s website, one can read of an award that was recently presented to Zahi Khouri, CEO of Coca-Cola Palestine, founder of the Palestinian National Beverage Company and exclusive holder of the Coca-Cola franchise in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The beverage conglomerate’s blog “invites Khouri to share his optimism, grit and reflection” with their global readers.
One wonders if his reflections represent Coca-Cola as a whole; for the Palestinian-American entrepreneur supports a boycott of Israel and urges sanctions against the Jewish State.
Israel faces mounting pressures from a number of businesses doing business in its neighborhood. Last week, Stephane Richard, the CEO of Orange, the French telecom conglomerate, backtracked from earlier remarks he made in which he implied his company would boycott Israel. During an emergency visit to Israel, Mr. Richard advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “I want to make it totally clear that Orange as a company has never supported and will never support any kind of boycott against Israel.”
Similar to Orange’s business model, Coca-Cola has a local partner in Israel.
In November 2014, The Jerusalem Post reported that “Coca-Cola plans to build its first factory in Gaza,” noting the company had invested $25 Million into its Palestinian area business in the past five years, with Mr. Khouri as a partner. At the time, Mr. Khouri said all the right things, including this memorable soundbite: “The only enemy of extremism is good jobs.” A deeper look at Mr. Khouri’s rhetoric, however, reveals an executive more in line with Gaza hardliners than has been portrayed in the press.
Perhaps at the time Coca-Cola was unaware of Mr. Khouri’s September 2014 op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel in which their partner & regional CEO noted that the “non-violent efforts of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) advocates make sense as a means to force Israel to recognize that the occupation is not cost-free.” Coca-Cola’s local partner suggested that “countries, like those in the European Union, could enforce their own laws against doing businesses with countries that violate human rights.”
Perhaps Mr. Khouri should re-read the Coca-Cola Code of Business Conduct for franchisees, which states, “because The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in the United States, our employees around the world often are subject to U.S. laws.” In addition to it being morally wrong to boycott Israel, recent amendments by the U.S. House and Senate require U.S. trade negotiators to “discourage politically motivated actions” by foreign countries and international organizations that aim to “penalize or otherwise limit” commercial relations with Israel or “persons doing business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel.” A regional CEO threatening to boycott America’s staunchest Mid-East ally is cause for concern on many levels for Coca-Cola.
Yet, Mr. Khouri flouts these regulations, noting in the Washington insider publication The Hill that “this Congress is now legislating against the Palestinian nonviolent action of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) as a means to secure Palestinian freedom.” He then urges Jewish Voices for Peace, the anti-Zionist organization funded by George Soros, to assist him in lobbying efforts in Washington, DC. Does he also meet with Coca-Cola lobbyists while in our nation’s capitol?
When advocating in favor of BDS, Mr. Khouri is careful to identify himself not with Coca-Cola but as, for example, a “Palestinian-American businessman,” as he did in his bio line on The Hill or as “chairman of Orlando-based Intram Investments and chairman of the Palestinian Tourism Co. in Ramallah,” as reads his bio in the Sentinel. (Multiple emails and calls to Coca-Cola, Mr. Khouri, and Palestinian National Beverage Company requesting comment for this story were not returned. If any responds, this story will be updated to include their viewpoint.)
With many finding the BDS movement both anti-Semitic and racist, it is difficult to imagine how any company can justify a top executive supporting a boycott of Israel – and that much tougher for Fortune Magazine’s 10th most-admired company of 2015.
(Meanwhile, someone’s infringing on Coca-Cola Palestine Twitter, claiming 100% of people who drink Pepsi will die.)
Mr. Khouri’s off-message opining has deep roots. In an op-ed Mr. Khouri published in The Huffington Post, he urged compensation for Palestinian refugees – a certain non-starter for peace talks. In a 2012 Washington Post oped, he claimed that “Israel did not make the desert bloom. Instead, thanks to a deal struck with the British viceroys of Mandate Palestine, it made away with a land, a set of institutions and, indeed, a culture that was not its own.” Mr. Khouri invents facts to malign Israel, such as suggesting that Israel claims to have invented falafel, oranges, and hummus. Israel has done no such thing.
While one can read countless articles containing Mr. Khouri’s political commentary, one will not find a word of criticism of the Palestinian Arabs. Not a word about the fact that Hamas—headquartered in Gaza where Coca-Cola has built its latest factory—is devoted to the destruction of the Jewish State. Not a word about Israel’s continued peace overtures, nor a word about Israel’s claims to their ancient homeland. He certainly never mentions that Coca-Cola Israel employs many Israeli Arabs, while Coca-Cola Palestine has not a single Israeli Jew employed.
We have come a long way since 1966 when it was reported that, “The issue of whether the Coca-Cola Export Corporation has bowed to the Arab boycott against Israel, when it refused to grant a franchise to the Israeli firm, Tempo Soft Drinks Company, was settled this weekend when the Coca-Cola company announced that it had agreed to grant such a franchise to Abraham Feinberg, noted American Jewish leader and business executive, whose associates in the venture will be Israeli citizens.”
At the time, Coca-Cola suffered in the Arab world for defying the Arab league boycott. Today, while there’s a page on the Coca-Cola Web site ensuring the public no profits are transferred to Israel and that there’s no Coca-Cola production on “disputed territory,” the CEO of Coca-Cola Palestine has not gotten the memo that Israel is not being boycotted.
Across the Israeli political spectrum, boycotts have been attacked. Prime Minister Netanyahu responded forcefully to Orange’s threat of a boycott, saying, “We must not cave into the pressure, expose the lies and attack the attackers. We shall unite forces in Israel and abroad, expose our enemy’s lies and fight for the Israeli citizen’s right to live their lives peacefully and safely.”
Now, the CEO of Coca-Cola Palestine has been exposed espousing similar views. Coca-Cola must follow in the footsteps of Orange and distance itself from any talk of supporting a boycott or sanctions of Israel.
Ronn Torossian is the founder of 5WPR, a top 25 US PR agency, and the author of For Immediate Release.
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36 Comments
8 years ago
And let’s not forget this, either!
8 years ago
Just got off the phone with Coke, and of course, they deny any involvement in the issue.
Their representative seemed somewhat unsure of himself though, and denied any dealings with Zahi Khouri and the BDS movement.
8 years ago
A dummy does the dhimmi.
—– from Wikipedia: Dhimmitude is a neologism borrowed from the French language. It is derived by adding the productive suffix -tude to the Arabic noun dhimmi, which refers to a non-Muslim living a restricted life as a second-class subject of an Islamic state.
8 years ago
Edwin Black on Coke and Egyptian Jews
“For 15 years, Egyptian-Jewish businessman Refael Bigio has been battling a goliath corporate adversary, The Coca-Cola Company. Bigio charges that Coke has been profiting from his family’s stolen property just outside Cairo. The Bigio family’s property was expropriated by Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser in the mid-1960s during one of Egypt’s anti-Jewish purges. Over the course of a decade and a half, the Coca-Cola Company has steadfastly refused to bargain in good faith or to negotiate any fair compensation for the expropriated property, according to Bigio’s lawyers. In the company’s defense, Coke’s attorneys have defended Egypt’s anti-Jewish seizures and incidentally those of Hitler’s Germany as confiscations that “did not violate international law.” (see Bigio v. Coca-Cola, et al., No. 97-CV-02858, Document 63)”
http://www.speroforum.com/a/VUYZZQULTC14/72819-CocaCola-continues-to-profit-from-property-seized-from-Egyptian-Jews#.VX9MVkYis5s
8 years ago
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8 years ago
Coca-Cola Palestine
tastes like islamo-fascism
8 years ago
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8 years ago
From the River to the Sea,
INSHALLAH!
INSHALLAH!
8 years ago
Reply to
SCREW SOCIALISM
From the River to the Sea,
Pal-e-SWINE Will Never Be!
INSHALLAH!
8 years ago
Reply to
SCREW SOCIALISM
From Sea to Shining Sea!
No Islamic praise will there be.
Eventually.
Just wait and see:
YAZIDIS WILL BE FREE!
8 years ago
Enjoy a coke and a smile??? O I guess that slogan doesn’t work for the home page pictured there because the woman is covering most of her face.
hahhahahaha,,,,,,slavery, can’t beat the real thing :/
8 years ago
Reply to
atl slayer
Maybe she sips it through a sharia compliant straw — through her nose.
8 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
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8 years ago
Simple, we can all live without coke, but coco-cola cant live without our support
8 years ago
So irritating Coca-Cola. First lecturing us to “mixify our life” which isn’t a beverage company’s business- now this outrage.
Worst part is how meaningless it is to complain to these giants. Loss of one customer is a drop in the ocean.
Sick of being “nudged.”
Ready to nudge back.
Without leadership constraining appropriate moderation of the fed-up, I’m afraid of what is coming.
Pam 100% right about everything, sadly.
God help us.
Boycott Coca-Cola!
8 years ago
Would some of you Coca Cola drinking Muslims go out to the link below and take a look at the little girl in a Pink dress without a head. Please come back and tell us how you sleep at night. I suppose your Imama tells you it’s alright for your religion to chop little girls heads off There is lots of other headless people there also. Give the link to your Imama.
Sleep well…
Oh Yeah!, we’re all going to run down and join the nearest Mosque
Click on the link: We’re waiting…
://www.google.com/search?q=isis+beheads+a+little+girl&espv=2&biw=1730&bih=986&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCkQsARqFQoTCN6br-Csk8YCFU4uiAodAiAEwg
8 years ago
I am in Israel now and since the weather is so beautiful and warm I have been drinking diet Coke and Zero Coca-Cola every day.
Coca-Cola is sold all over Israel from Tel Aviv to Safed to Jerusalem.
Money makes the world go round so Coca-Cola being sold all over Israel will continue to sell Coca-Cola.
Anti-Semites will never change it is a pathological disorder.
Enjoy a cold coke in Israel! I love you Israel!!!
8 years ago
ICYMI: Twitter now censoring content without user consent. “The future doesn’t belong to those who insult Islam.” -POTUS
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/08/why-is-twitter-censoring-our-timelines-without-consent/
Started shortly after OControl of Internet took effect? Nothing to do with coke but corporate sells freedom out yet again.
8 years ago
Reply to
Philip
I think what the POSUS actually said was: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
8 years ago
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8 years ago
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8 years ago
Addiction to Coca Cola (and Pepsi) is destructive to your health.
8 years ago
Reply to
ApolloSpeaks
I have no such “highs” from drinking any soft drink, but I’m sure the destruction to your health is completely bad. Drink water and wine. It’s better for you.
8 years ago
Israel should simply ban CocaCola.
BTW, it is a healthy choice to ban Cocacola from your diet anyway.
8 years ago
Reply to
NoTroll Zone
Any company that buys Halal Certification or boycotts Israel should be banned from Israel as they are helping to buy bullets or whatever to destroy Israel.
8 years ago
I have sent an email to Coca-Cola telling them I will boycott them till they stop boycotting Israel. Also I have Tweeted that too!
8 years ago
Reply to
Nilsy
If your on Facebook as I am not let boycotthalal and halalchoices know, so many others will ban Coke.
8 years ago
Tawriya, again lies while saying another. Make certain you have Coco Cola listed on Boycotthalal or Halalchoices on Facebook as supporting Halal Certification
For any company to ban Israel products then we must ban their products.
Anyone on Facebook mention this on those two sites as I am not on Facebook.
8 years ago
Coca Cola is unhealthy and bad for people. We should boycott Coke simply to maintain our own health. Their disgusting corporate political meddling is further motivation to drink a healthy beverage.
8 years ago
Save you own life, stop consuming 10 tsp of sugar with each can and in the same breath Support Israel. A win-win!
8 years ago
I quit drinking Pepsi when I saw the can that featured a plane flying into the towers was noticed on a US military base in the sand box Im a Shasta man now so not drinking coke no problem God bless Israel and her people.
8 years ago
Called Coke at that #. Told ’em that as their loyal customer for the last 44 years I would not tolerate this. The person at Coke said they were looking into this and would come out with a statement in a day or 2.
8 years ago
Are they paying too be sharia compliant? perhaps it is time to stop buying coca cola and to advertise that they are a threat to free society… put this on tye buses as well as pictures of sharia’s outcomes for non muslims.
