{"id":104652,"date":"2024-06-14T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/coca-cola-ad-in-bangladeshi-aimed-at-distancing-itself-from-israel-receives-backlash\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:16:58","slug":"coca-cola-ad-in-bangladeshi-aimed-at-distancing-itself-from-israel-receives-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/coca-cola-ad-in-bangladeshi-aimed-at-distancing-itself-from-israel-receives-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola ad in Bangladeshi aimed at distancing itself from Israel receives backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Bangladesh, a Coca-Cola ad aimed at distancing the company from perceived ties with Israel has gained widespread criticism amid Israel&#8217;s ongoing war on Gaza<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i93JjWbSWP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/i93JjWbSWP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiddleEastEye\/status\/1801479611575841002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; The Coca-Cola ad shows a man being offered Coke on a hot day, the man refuses after saying it&#8217;s associated with &#8216;that place&#8217;<br \/>&#8211; The man offering then says Coke is not an &#8220;Israeli product&#8221; (Israel is not specifically mentioned), implying it is misinformation and that Coca-Cola is an international product and even has a factory in Palestine<br \/>&#8211; The ad does not mention that the factory in Palestine is on land illegally occupied by Israel in the West Bank<br \/>&#8211; As the backlash grew, Coca-Cola removed the ad from its social media however it reposted the ad to YouTube later with comments disabled<br \/>&#8211; The actors Saraf Ahmed Zibon and Shimul Sharma as well as the directors have issued public apologies<br \/>&#8211; In Bangladesh, sales of Coke are reported to have fallen by 23% since the beginning of Israel&#8217;s onslaught on Gaza in October<br \/>&#8211; On Wednesday an online shoe company in Bangladesh called &#8216;ZIS leather&#8217; 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