The Coca-Cola Company quietly removed references to its financial support for Black Lives Matter from its official website after the controversial group expressed support for Hamas terrorists who killed at the least 1,400 Israeli soldiers and civilians earlier this month.
BLM’s Chicago chapter sparked outrage with a now-deleted post on X showing a photograph of a paraglider with the text “I stand with Palestine.”
Hamas terrorists used paragliders to pour across the Israel-Gaza border and massacre scores of revelers at a trance music festival.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted Coca-Cola on his podcast last week, particularly after the soft drink giant touted its charitable donations to BLM on the corporate’s official website.
One in all Coca-Cola’s brands, Sprite, gave half 1,000,000 dollars to the Black Lives Matter Global Network as a part of its “fight for racial justice.”
However the website apparently scrubbed reference to BLM after Cruz’s criticism.
The Texas senator posted screenshots on his X account showing the before and after images of the net page.
“On Verdict, we name names and blast corporate America for standing with Marxists who celebrated Hamas’s mass murder of Israelis,” Cruz said in a post on X on Thursday.
The Post has sought comment from the Coca-Cola Company and BLM.
On October 11, in response to backlash over its post, BLM Chicago said in a press release: “Yesterday we sent out mss [messages] that we aren’t pleased with. We stand with Palestine & the individuals who will do what they have to to live free. Our hearts are with, the grieving moms, those rescuing babies from rubble, who’re at risk of being worn out completely.”
As well as to the paragliders image, BLM Chicago posted quite a lot of cartoons depicting anyone expressing outrage over the attacks on Israel, while one other calmly lists off talking points blaming Israel for the situation.
“This isn’t about Hamas — that is about Palestinians right to resist 75 years of Israeli settlers colonizing their place of origin,” one in every of the cartoons read.
The post of the paraglider was blistered by social media users.
“Unapologetically standing with butcherers and rapists,” writer and former speechwriter Aviva Klompas tweeted.
“BLM Chicago, like many leftists, comes out in support of slaughtering innocent people they don’t like,” GOP commentator and former congressional candidate Robby Starbuck tweeted.
Fortune 500 corporations like Amazon, Coca-Cola, Sprite, DoorDash, DropBox, Warner Brothers and Microsoft have donated to BLM within the wake of the May 2020 police-involved killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis.
Additional reporting by David Propper and Alex Oliveira