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QR codes promising gifts to New Yorkers redirect shoppers to images of Israel’s ‘genocide’

December 24, 2024
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A group of activists in New York City spread the messages of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement during this holiday season, to remind shoppers of Israel’s ongoing war and destruction in Gaza. 

In a video posted on the social media platform Instagram by the New Jersey Palestine Action channel, entitled “Tis the season to end genocide”, activists are seen hitting BDS target companies such as Starbucks, McDonald’s and Zara with stickers across neighbourhoods in Manhattan.

BDS is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. The movement takes its inspiration from the boycott movement against Apartheid South Africa and seeks to pressure Israel into ending its occupation and violations by peaceful means.

Activists caught the attention of shoppers with colourful stickers and coupon codes, offering discounts and free items.

But upon scanning the QR codes, customers are confronted with images from Gaza where Israel’s war continues to kill, starve and displace Palestinians, in a war that has been going on for over a year and a half and has been called a genocide by leading human rights organisations.

A fake promotional sticker is placed near a McDonald’s. When the QR code is scanned, it redirects to a page with information on Israel’s war on Gaza (New Jersey Palestine Action/@njpalaction/Instagram)

Activists hoped to remind people that these brands are complicit in Israel’s continuing war on the Palestinian enclave, and called on them to boycott the brands.

Activists end the video by calling for an “arms embargo, an end to the siege of Gaza and an end to the 76 years of displacement, occupation and apartheid in Palestine”.

“Americans, particularly in big cities like New York, are extremely tunnel-visioned and consumer-driven. It can feel like screaming into the void despite hundreds of demonstrations. This was an action that was designed to bring the genocide right to their periphery where they can’t avoid it: to the complicity corporations that they refuel from daily,” New Jersey Palestine Action said about the campaign.

“Everything we do is for those in Gaza. We want the Palestinian people to know we will never forget them,” the movement added.

An activist places one of the fake promotional stickers on a Starbucks location (New Jersey Palestine Action/@njpalaction/Instagram)

On 16 December, the movement posted a reel showing an autonomous group tagging 68 storefronts in Manhattan that are currently being boycotted.

They have also translated stickers into Spanish due to the amount of requests to do so. The group told Middle East Eye that they have received offers from people to translate them into other languages, such as German and French.

The group told MEE the sticker movement has travelled to major countries such as Spain, France, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and many states in the US such as California, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida.

The campaign has spread to other countries as well, as shown here where an activist placed a sticker in a bathroom inside a Starbucks location in Italy (New Jersey Palestine Action/@njpalaction/Instagram)

The activist group said they have set a deadline to receive content from those who have ordered the stickers, and expect to receive and release a mashup of footage of stickers being posted all over the world.

The movement attracted support from many grassroots organisations around the world in raising awareness about Israel’s war on Gaza and the complicit institutions.  

According to reports in the past year, both Starbucks and McDonald’s have reported declines in sales and profits, and both corporations have blamed international boycotts by supporters of Palestine amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. 

In December 2023, the fashion company Zara removed a controversial advertising campaign from the front page of its website after pro-Palestine activists called for a boycott of the retailer.

The advertisement featured mannequins that were missing limbs and statues wrapped in a white shroud. Activists said the photographs resembled images from Israel’s assault on Gaza. 

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