Starbucks accused a union representing thousands of its baristas of damaging the brand and endangering co-workers with a pro-Palestinian tweet. The CEO of a prominent tech conference is facing boycotts after he publicly suggested Israel was committing war crimes. Company bosses have vowed never to hire members of a university's student groups that condemned Israel.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic civil rights group, denounced the backlash against the students and statements from U.S. corporate leaders that 'lack any meaningful display of sympathy toward Palestinian civilians.'Those reactions combined, the organization said, are leaving 'Palestinians and those in support of Palestinian human rights isolated at their place of work and fearful of possible consequences' for discussing how the conflict has affected them.