After Black Lives Matter publicly backed the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, the Coca-Cola Company secretly deleted a reference to payments to the organization from their website.
Coca-Cola recently removed a statement that mentioned Sprite’s (which they sell) support for Black Lives Matter.
“The brand also donated $500,000 to the Black Lives Matter Global Network to support the group’s voting education efforts and their February 2021 Black Future Month program to empower the next generation of Black youths,” reads the deleted sentence.
The phrase may be found on a June 2017 version of Coca-Cola’s “Taking a Stand” internet page.
The sentence has been removed from the page.
“Recognizing our duty to strive for greater racial equity in our communities, the company and some of our brands are using our voice and our reach to take a stand,” Coca-Cola states at the top of the page.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) flagged Coca-Cola’s edit in an X post last week.
“Editing your website is not enough. Americans DEMAND an apology,” Cruz wrote.
CAUGHT RED-HANDED. @CocaCola deletes its support for BLM.
One screenshot is of @CocaCola's website before BLM supported Hamas parachuting into a concert to kill Israeli civilians.
The other is from this morning.
Editing your website is not enough. Americans DEMAND an apology. pic.twitter.com/WKRdxVrTu8
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 20, 2023
In terrorist assaults against Israel earlier this month, Hamas killed over 1,400 people, including children. Israel has begun a big counteroffensive, with airstrikes and preparations for a land invasion in territories controlled by Hamas.
Black Lives Matter groups, including those that appear to embrace Hamas, prompted Coca-Cola to take action.
A paraglider carrying a Palestinian flag was featured in a Facebook post by Black Lives Matter Chicago with the caption “I stand with Palestine.”
“That is all that is it!” Black Lives Matter Chicago added in its post. That X post has since been deleted.
Black Lives Matter Chicago also posted a cartoon showing a person saying, “This isn’t about Hamas — this is about Palestinians right to resist 75 years of Israeli settlers colonizing their native land.”
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles posted on Instagram that the Palestinians people’s “resistance must not be condemned.”
“As the world is faced with deep questions about self-determination, as we all desire and pray for a world of peace, we must stand unwaveringly on the side of the oppressed. When a people have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence, their resistance must not be condemned, but understood as a desperate act of self-defense.”
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles has not deleted their post.
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