McDonald’s boss admits to declining sales due to support for Israel

According to Fars International News Agency, Chris Kempczynski, the CEO of McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food chain company, admitted that the company suffered a “significant” loss due to the perception of its support for Israel. among its customers in West Asia.

McDonald’s became the target of pro-Palestinian activists, who demanded a boycott of its products, after the publication of material on the Internet that showed the company’s restaurants offering free food to Israeli army forces.

The Independent newspaper wrote that this request was drawn to the general population of people who asked each other to stop buying from McDonald’s to show their anger at Israel’s military response in Gaza. The owners of McDonald’s restaurants in Muslim countries such as Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan tried to emphasize their non-support for Israel by issuing statements.

Kempczynski claimed that the requests of pro-Palestinian groups to boycott McDonald’s products are not based on reality. The company has claimed that it has no stance on the Gaza war and that McDonald’s is not responsible for the actions of other McDonald’s franchise restaurants that pay it in exchange for using the company’s brand.

McDonald’s CEO wrote in a LinkedIn post on Thursday: “Some markets in the Middle East and others outside the region have experienced significant business losses due to the war and related misinformation that It is having a negative effect on brands like McDonald’s.” He continued: “It is disappointing and wrong. In every country, including the Muslim countries where we operate, McDonald’s is proud to entrust its representation to local owners who work tirelessly to serve their people as well as employ thousands of citizens of their own country.”

This article continues: “Our hearts go out to the communities and families affected by the war in the Middle East. We abhor violence of any kind and stand firmly against hate speech and will always proudly open our doors to everyone.”

This article was written by MacDonald while in In the past, the request to boycott this company has intensified. The powerful group “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel” this week for the first time officially called for a boycott of McDonald’s products.

After that, McDonald’s representative in Malaysia sued the company for what it called “false and offensive statements” and demanded 1.3 million dollars in damages. McDonald’s Malaysia said that this claim has caused damage to this McDonald’s branch.

The group “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel” on the other hand said that it strongly denies the accusations of desecration. “We cannot allow this matter to be ignored,” the group said in a statement. Let’s show McDonald’s what people’s sanctions can do.” For two decades, the siege of Gaza and the imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians began the operation known as “Al-Aqsa Storm”. This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories at several points of the border fences, attacked villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them.

Zionist regime In response to this operation, it launched heavy attacks against Gaza and placed this area under a complete siege. Despite this, as analysts say, the al-Aqsa operation has imposed a major security-political defeat on Israel.

Israeli regime officials have declared their military goal in this war to destroy Hamas. Meanwhile, many analysts have questioned the possibility of realizing this goal, even in occupied Palestine. /p>