First, you need to understand it’s very difficult for the people in #Gaza to boycott Israeli products. Gaza has been under a blockade since 2007 (I was 4 years old). Israel built a gigantic wall all around the Gaza Strip. The occupation forces have been deciding what is allowed in to Gaza and what is allowed out.

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There is quite a lot of farmland in the Gaza Strip which used to allow Palestinians to grow their own food, as an alternative to Israeli products. But now all of the farmland is on the forbidden side of the yellow line as per Trump’s peace agreement. So we can only resort to using the little food aid Israel lets in, or Israeli products they allow, which make up all of what we can find on the markets.

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We’re trying to survive war, starvation, a collapsed health system, a collapsed environment full of toxic chemicals and unexploded bombs and ammunition ready to explode as soon as anyone or anything gets too close. And there’s still a blockade. Please show the people from #Gaza some understanding if you see them using ChatGPT, Google, WhatsApp or PayPal, or eating Israeli hummus or Israeli chicken or Israeli canned food. This is all we’ve got.

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However, not all my followers live in the #Gaza Strip. Then, you may have alternatives to Israeli products.

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There’s an international campaign organised by Palestinians called #BDS, Boycott, Divest, Sanction. It’s organised and supported by Palestinian trade unions, associations, NGO’s, as well as worldwide refugee rights organisations and associations, churches, synagogues, clubs… Please note, and it’s important, that I’m not affiliated with any of these organisations. All I want is for the war to stop and for peace to prevail.

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The BDS organisation calls for everyone to put pressure on Israel until it stops violating international law. It’s a movement for freedom, equality and justice, and against apartheid.

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There are many international companies and organisations that benefit from the violation of international law and from the murder, displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. Their money funds the bullets that kill Palestinian children, and the explosive robots that destroy whole neighbourhoods, sometimes whole villages. It’s important your money isn’t used for that. Most often, there are real alternatives.

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It works! Carrefour was forced to close all their branches in Jordan. Puma ended its complicity with the genocide. McDonald’s is seeing global sales declining and has been forced to react in several countries. Some arms manufacturers were forced to close their branches in the UK.

I hope you realise that by watching Disney+, drinking Coca-Cola and eating at Burger King, you finance a genocide. It would be nice to stop now.

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For more information, you may have a look at the international website of the BDS movement:
https://www.bdsmovement.net/campaigns

Or you may look at your local BDS website:
https://bdsmovement.net/join-a-bds-campaign

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If you found this thread interesting, share it with your followers and with your friends. If you’d like to help my family pay off debts (we had to spend a lot of money to move and evade bombings), please consider donating to my fundraising campaign. Times are tough.

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