McDonald’s
McDonald’s is the largest and best-known global food service retailer with more than 30,000 restaurants in 121 countries.
* McDonald’s entered the Israeli market in 1993 and now has 80 restaurants there.
* McDonald’s chairman and CEO Jack M. Greenberg is an honorary director of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of Metropolitan Chicago.
* Headquartered just outside Chicago, McDonald’s is a "major corporate partner" of the Jewish United Fund / Jewish Federation of Chicago.
Activities of the Jewish United Fund include:
* "working to maintain American military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel; monitors and, when necessary, responds to media coverage of Israel".
* runs "Fun-filled Summer Family Missions to Israel" where families get to "visit an army base and meet with Israeli soldiers", "learn the important history of the Golan Heights", and "visit our sister city, Kiryat Gat. and see the important work we are doing there". (For more on illegal industrial development in Kiryat Gat, please see the profiles of Coca-Cola and Intel below.)
* Through its "Partnership to Israel" programme, the Jewish United Fund provides $1.3 million annually to help the development of Kiryat Gat and to promote further illegal settlement there.
* paying for Christian leaders and American high school kids to visit Israel and be indoctrinated with Zionist ideas.
* Facilitating business, professional, and personal ties with Israel, and travel packages, for Jewish teens and young adults
* Maintains the Israel Commission, which "serves as a forum for the organized Jewish community to promote understanding of Israel and Middle East developments, most recently including those connected with the peace process; works to maintain American military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel; monitors and, when necessary, responds to media coverage of Israel; plays a leadership role in organizing and planning the annual community-wide celebration for Israel’s Independence Day; and helps promote Israeli cultural events in the metropolitan area."
* Providing speakers on Israel to community groups.
(It should be noted, in McDonald’s’ favour, that when in 1999 an international campaign forced Burger King to withdraw its name from a restaurant that had been built in the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, the general manager of McDonald’s Israel, Omri Padan, said that he will never open a branch in the occupied territories.)
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1 comment:
You might want to do some fact checking:
Jack Greenberg is not the chairman and CEO any more and has not been for many years.
McDonald's does not support the Jewish United Fund. there is no proof of that anywhere except in baseless websites.
It is the responsibility of all who share their voice out loud to make sure they check the factual basis of their claims. Sadly, not all who can access a computer are up to the responsibility.
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