Indonesians' strong "No" to Israeli goods

Pars Today- Concurrent with million-strong demonstration in support for Palestine in every weekend, Indonesian people have stopped consuming the products affiliated to Israel; hence harming these companies millions of dollars.

According to Pars Today's report, quoting from Fars news agency, KFC has lost $21.5 million just in the first quarter of 2024 due to boycotting its products by the Indonesian people. Stopping purchase of this restaurant's products in Indonesia has caused the income of this company to decrease %60 in comparison with the first quarter of 2023.

MacDonald and Puma are other companies which have been boycotted by the supporters of Palestine.

Indonesia is considered among the top 5 countries which have boycotted the products of factories and companies affiliated to the Zionist regime.

According to the opinion polls conducted among 15 thousand people from 15 countries, such as France, Saudi Arabia, Britain and the US, reveal that at least 1 out of three of them has boycotted the brands of the companies supporting or affiliated to Israel.

According to these opinion polls, the three Muslims countries of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Indonesia are among the main 5 countries to boycot the Israeli goods.

While the Saudi government is making effort to normalize ties with the child-killer Zionist regime, %71 of the people in this country have announced that they have stopped and boycotted the consumption of Israeli products in a bid to show their support for Palestine.

An opinion poll conducted by Washington Institute in December, revealed that %96 of the Saudi people have acknowledged that Arab nations should cut their relations with the Zionist regime in response to the crimes of the regime in Gaza. In the United Arab Emirates, too, %57 of people have announced that they have put Israeli goods in their black list.

An average 37 percent of the people across the world have boycotted the products affiliated to the Zionist regime. This is while, the statistics of the Arab and Muslim countries is higher than the global average.

In March, the owners of Starbucks were forced to fire 2,000 of their personnel in West Asia and North Africa, due to the boycotting of their products in these regions.

MacDonald's officials have also announced that the sale of their products has been reduced in Muslim countries like Malaysia and Indonesia and West Asia.

Banning the consumption of foreign goods affiliated to Israel has led to the increase of the sale of domestic products in West Asian countries.

Many people in Oman, abandoning the drinks of foreign companies affiliated to Israel, have started to consume Saudi brands.

According to the opinion polls, this boycotting of foreign products by supporters of Palestine has caused the sale of domestic products in Saudi Arabia and UAE to increase. Pakistani companies, too, have started to produce substitutes for Israeli goods.

Boycotting Israeli products is done in circumstances that the regime is collapsing economically. The Zionist regime's media officials have warned against critical economic conditions several times during the recent months.

The conditions are so crucial for Israel that the reduction of exports of simple products, like tomato or cucumber, can paralyze its economy. The Zionist regime continues its unprecedented crimes in Gaza while it has massacred more than 40 thousand civilians and injured over 93 thousand others.

Key phrases: boycotting Israeli goods, Muslim country of Indonesia, Israeli products      

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