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Apple under pressure for funding both ‘illegal settlements and Israeli military’ (www.thecanary.co)

submitted 3 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Apple employees have called out the company for donating to the IDF and West Bank settlers

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Still, singling out behaviour can be more effective than talking about it more generally. And when one organisation changes their policy others often follow.

Yes, it would be great if this was managed more centrally but in the absence of that let’s hold companies accountable. The victims here in the end are Palestinians, not Apple.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I don’t think this is likely to happen. There are very wealthy zionists on wall st that will do unpredictable things if any company were to do something like this. In the case of university protests they had a private chat group with the city and state leaders, pressuring them to use the police against students. They’ve gotten multiple college presidents fired. I doubt any company wants to wade into this fight. There is zero upside for them. If anything, they’ll just end their donation matching if it becomes too political.