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This week, the successful musician Billie Eilish sparked outrage in Israel after wearing a red pin calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at the Oscars.
Today she is under fire from the other side, the pro-Palestinian one, after she was filmed leaving a branch of the "Starbucks" coffee shop chain in Los Angeles.
Starbucks is considered in many countries to be a pro-Israel company.
Shortly after the events of October 7 and the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the Starbucks workers' organization in Turkey published a message of support for Palestine while ignoring the Israeli victims of the shocking massacre.
In response, the management filed a lawsuit against the workers' organization on the grounds that its members violated a trademark and also on the grounds that the announcement angered the company's customers and harmed its reputation.
In response, the workers' organization filed a counterclaim claiming that the company supports terrorism and violence.
In Turkey and around the world it was even spread that one of the Starbucks executives is Jewish and many called to boycott the chain and demonstrate against it.
Aylish, as mentioned, was recorded leaving the place and in light of this she was attacked by many pro-Palestinians.
On social networks they wrote about her: "She's such a joke", "supporting Palestine but drinking at Starbucks? It's all for the image. After all, you put a dick on Palestine", "obviously she doesn't care about Gaza".
Billy and his brother Phineas with the Starbucks coffee/screenshot, Twitter
Three months ago, the Turkish news anchor Meltam Gonai was fired from the TV channel TGRT Haber, where she works, after she appeared on the broadcast with a cup of coffee from the global cafe chain "Starbucks", which is considered pro-Israeli, after its executives condemned the Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip.
The channel issued a strong condemnation of the act of the presenter and the director working at the channel and made it clear that it was terminating their contracts.
"The presenters on the channel are forbidden under any circumstances to covertly advertise any company."
It was also reported that the channel "knows the sensitivities of the Turkish people when it comes to Gaza and we intend to protect those sensitivities to the end."
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