DJ
Khaled did a paid advertisement for Sabrah Hummus. Let me share why
this is important. Sabra Hummus has been on the target list for boycott
because of its known complicity in human rights violations against the
Palestinians. Sabra donates money directly to the Golani brigades of the
Israeli military. The same military responsible for the killings of
thousands of Palestinians. DJ Khaled has the whole world repeating after
him. "Another one." "coco butter." "Lion!" There's no doubt that DJ
Khaled is influential. Heck, he's influenced me! That's why Sabra is
paying him to advertise their brand. By advertising for them, he is
increasing their profit, which is increasing funds for the IDF. As a
Palestinian, he is directly affecting his own people. DJ Khaled is very
entertaining, but this is no laughing matter.
Many
people in our community have overlooked the plight of the Palestinian
people. Sadly, many of those people are Palestinians. We must do more to
remember their suffering and work to end the occupation and siege of
Gaza and the West Bank.
As
a successful member from our own community, he must be reminded or
informed of his wrong doing. He must be held responsible. Khaled, wake
up. We need you to straighten up on this. You represent more than
yourself. We need you to reject cooperation with Sabra for its
documented complicity in Palestinian suffering. Perhaps you didn't know,
here's your chance to learn about this and fix this.
We should give him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he doesn't know much about #BDS and the boycott of Sabra. Because of this, it is imperative that every one of us share this directly @djkhaled with the hashtags #dontplayyourself #sabrakills .
If
enough of us do this we can reach him with this information so that he
doesn't make this mistake again. If he does, then we will know he puts
profit over Palestine and we can leave him where he is.
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