Israeli Arabs are calling to boycott retail company Zara, according to a report by N12 on Friday.
The campaign for the boycott started after Canadian-Israeli Joey Schwebel, the chair of Trimera Brands that is the Israel franchisee for the retail company, hosted controversial far-right political figure Itamar Ben-Gvir for a political gathering in Ra’anana this past week, the report said.
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Arab Israelis have reportedly burned clothes bought at Zara on social media in response to Schwebel’s hosting of the Otzma Yehudit leader.
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Ta’al Party leader Ahmad Tibi tweeted in response to the news: “The ugliness of “Zara Ben-Gvir Israel.”
Ben-Gvir then responded to Tibi’s tweet, writing: “Zara, beautiful clothes, beautiful Israelis.”
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— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) October 21, 2022
Last year, Zara condemned one of its designers, who is Jewish, for telling a Palestinian model that “maybe if your people were educated then they wouldn’t blow up the hospitals.”
Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA contributed to this report.