Palestinian ambassador: Better to pressure US, not boycott McDonald’s
by rahmah ghazali AND dina murad

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians shouldn’t target the workers at businesses such as McDonald’s and Starbucks in their efforts to boycott Israeli-linked companies, said Palestinian ambassador to Malaysia Dr Anwar Al Agha.

In an interview with The Star yesterday, Dr Anwar said the workers were merely trying to earn a living and it was unfair for the workers to be subjected to harassment and attacks from fellow Malaysians.

Although he admitted that it could be a way to pressure Israel to stop the aggression in Gaza, he stressed that social media posting about any company’s alleged links with Israel “cannot always be verified”.

McDonald’s and Starbucks employees have faced verbal abuse, and some restaurants were vandalised after the social media posts highlighted that the companies diverted part of their profits to support Israel.

Dr Anwar said it would be more appropriate if the people channelled their frustrations at the United States government, which has recently signed an additional US$225mil (RM718.8mil) for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system.

“It would be better if the people go and protest at the US administration and pressure them to stop funding the Israelis with sophisticated weapons,” he said.

Both McDonald’s and Starbucks Malaysia have released official statements saying that they do not support nor do they channel funds to support Israel’s aggression in Gaza.

“Our people have also broken down in tears because of threatening telephone calls,” said McDonald’s Malaysia managing director Stephen Chew on Monday.

“There were also incidents where our people were physically intimidated and publicly humiliated, and of property being vandalised,” he said. “Some were even afraid to go back to their hometowns for Hari Raya for fear of being harassed.”

In a letter to the media, he said: “Our staff in uniform have been publicly humiliated. Others were shunned by their peers when they went to the mosque.

“Even the children of our staff have been singled out in their schools, confused by warnings by some teachers not to go to McDonald’s.”

sos

even Palestinian facepalm.

This post has been edited by pcboss00: Aug 13 2014, 10:44 AM

biaq pi la dia nak boikot mcd ke, janji jangan paksa org lain boikot

I just want to laff


ha ha ha ha ha


*laff at those who boikot McD.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Aug 13 2014, 10:55 AM

boycott Palestinian ambassador

Guess he loves his big macs...

Hello.. pressure US ? why not pressure OIC ?

palestinian ambasaddor is zionist secret agent!!!

double agentttttt

illuminati!!

free mason!!!

ambassador die hard fan prosperity burger

fuuhh mcdonalds i'm coming!!!

OIC will just reply "oh i see"

Even Palestinian have more brain than those perkosa, isma & those so called NGOs.

Wan to boikot to send msg to israel but never give a damn to local malaysians which suffers due to their stupid actions.

if not the boikot people will look stupid....owai

good question

boycott this "fake" ambassador

continues boycotting mcd

konpem israel mampus after dis

The brain drain is real it seems.

Aku x peduli hangpa boikot McD, aku tetap makan McD!

Palestinian and Bosnian are Malaysia's best foreign talent.
I'm proud that now M'sia has slowly following Singapore

lel

support palestine until own malaysians also want to beat up.

you say la is sheep or not.

bodoh bertingkek tingkek

"“Our people have also broken down in tears because of threatening telephone calls,” said McDonald’s Malaysia managing director Stephen Chew on Monday.

“There were also incidents where our people were physically intimidated and publicly humiliated, and of property being vandalised,” he said. “Some were even afraid to go back to their hometowns for Hari Raya for fear of being harassed.”

In a letter to the media, he said: “Our staff in uniform have been publicly humiliated. Others were shunned by their peers when they went to the mosque.

“Even the children of our staff have been singled out in their schools, confused by warnings by some teachers not to go to McDonald’s.”"


seriously,when this happen

how can u not feel for them? how can u care more for palestinians than our own fellow malaysians?

do they not matter?

do they worthless in ur eyes?

now i have more sympathy than those kena bom

at least bom=die

this,being insult continuously,even children being discriminated

its not islamic and clearly inhuman

those who did this is just as bad as israel that they hate so much

This post has been edited by amon_meiz: Aug 13 2014, 11:49 AM