Remember how McDonalds threatened to sue BDS Malaysia for defamation for a series of social media postings allegedly linking the fast-food franchise, among other companies, to Israel’s “genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza”? They ended up withdrawing the lawsuit after BDS Malaysia acknowledged that the McDonalds operator in Malaysia is wholly independent and not linked to the one in Israel.
However, even as far back as January, it was clear BDS Malaysia had been losing support over the fiasco. And it seems this trend has continued, judging by some reactions from Malaysians to a recent new boycott call.
Several X users have called out Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Malaysia for apparent hypocrisy over its cause to fight for freedom, justice and equality in Palestine.
Earlier, @BdsMalaysia uploaded a poster urging people to boycott Caltex and to “
stop fuelling genocide.”The post had garnered about 28,000 views at the time of publishing with 569 reposts. However, several commenters pointed out that @BdsMalaysia was still using X, which is owned by Elon Musk, who appeared at the US Congress on Wednesday as a guest of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Tan ck, who uses the handle @ahtai66, said: “Not boycotting Twitter??? Or boycotting as you like? Hypocrite la you …’
Another user, Tebuk Atap, with the handle @nusabansa, said: “
… but (you) didn’t boycott X, didn’t boycott Facebook, ok…“Meanwhile, TR_23, using @r_thanarajan, said: “
Double standard … selective boycott…“
I looked at the tweet and most of the replies.
But at least one of them was in English, and that I understood.
It is good to see more Malaysians recognizing the hypocrisy of the BDS movement, something us Jews and Israel-supporters have recognized for a long time.
