One would think that CNN writers
and editors would be smart enough to research a story before posting it, but
that was not the case. Instead, the August 8, 2014
CNN
Money report Starbucks: We don't fund Israel is nothing more than an exact
copy of a
Huffington
Post article a day prior with the with the exact same headline. Oddly
enough, it is not the first time this false claim was made, and Boycott Watch
posted an article busting the claim in it a full ten years before both
Huffington Post and CNN posted their articles.
Both
CNN and Huffington Post missed simple facts of the business Starbucks conducted
in Israel, and their article accuses Starbucks of not doing something the
company has no reason to do in the first place. The intent of the articles, of
course, is to get Jews to stop buying from another Jew. Meanwhile, it is
putting some Jews in the position of either boycotting Starbucks or trying to
defend something that does not make any sense, all without any framework to
refute a story that makes no sense in the first place.
Boycott Watch started writing articles about boycotts
against Starbuck's with the article on this topic on September 10, 2003, this
one titled Correcting
a false boycott email: Starbucks pullout of Israel was simply and clearly a
business decision. Our reporting also includes our August 17, 2006 article
titled Jihad Against
Starbucks - Howard Schultz Did Not Send The Email which exposes a false
letter to get people to believe the he and the company hates Israel. Sadly,
that is typical. The company has even been
falsely accused of
selling bottled water to NYC firefighters during the 9-11 attacks, a claim
of which is ridiculous even at face value since one thing fire fighters have
plenty of, is water. None the less, false claims against the company are
abundant.
What is new today is the same article
that CNN ripped off of from the Huffington Post is being recirculated by people
who hate Israel and Jews in general, thus putting some Jews in an awkward
position to refute something that makes no sense. Meanwhile, CNN Money and the
Huffington Post have both refused to remove the false articles from their
sites.
 This is the sixteenth
article we have written about Starbucks, the vast majority of which are about
false claims again Starbucks to get Jews to boycott the company, so this is
nothing new, and it is all because the owner and now Chairman Howard Schultz is
Jewish. In fact, the claims are all part of the greater Arab boycott of Israel
which now attacks owners of businesses in the United States because the owner
is Jewish. The graphic here is by a group that promotes boycotting Israel and
it lists many American companies specifically targeted because the owners are
Jewish. As such, it is not just anti-Israel but anti-Semitic.
The idea behind these boycotts is to harm Jews who may
potentially donate their own money to projects in Israel. In fact, Boycott
Watch President Fred Taub documented how that works in his groundbreaking book
Boycotting Peace where he exposed the
ongoing campaign to destroy Israel financially, a how the campaign is being
spread in the United States despite violating several laws.
"This is more than just sloppy journalism" said Fred
Taub, President of Boycott Watch. "Not only have these two outlets refused to
remove their ridiculous articles that we busted, but now it is being
re-circulated, and again with the idea to make Jews upset at and boycott
businesses that have pro-Israel owners. In 2003 we posted an
article that busted
the foundation of the boycott against Starbucks. Eleven years and fifteen
articles later CNN and Huffington Post bash Israel on a falsehood." Fred Taub
added people need to read his book Boycotting
Peace to learn more about how the economic war against Israel. |
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