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Ireland women's basketball team refuse to shake hands with Israel (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's one way to push governments to change, especially in a representative democracy. It's why businesses are pulling their operations from Russia (and to a much lesser extent Israel).

Edit: Typo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

NATO state businesses

McDonalds, Starbucks and Apple do not matter as much as you think. Russia is stronger without them.