why is the world boycotting Puma
assalamualaikum guys and welcome to
another episode of small - Jenna alright
guys so Saturday I was on Twitter and I
saw hashtag
boycott Puma some of you guys may know
that Puma and Adidas were founded by
brothers yeah that's right two German
brothers in their mother's basement a
long story short they had a beef and
then they went their separate ways and
naturally adidas did much better now the
two brands Puma has always been lower
down but that's not the reason why it
was trending what Pumas decided to do is
sponsor the Israeli Football Association
and the Israeli football teams I know
what you guys are thinking what's wrong
with that well a lot of things because
they're Israeli Football Association is
sponsoring teams and matches on illegal
settlements in Palestine so naturally
that raised an eyebrow to many people
around the globe which I think in this
day and age is remarkable considering
how half of us are so self centric and
the other half who live in our own
little bubble not wanting to ruffle the
feathers or say anything against the
government in case we don't get picked
up gone are those times mate stuffs
happening very clearly nowadays you know
I mean like you just need to switch on
the news to hear Trump say we've secured
the oil and therefore a small number of
US troops will remain in the area where
they have the oil and we're going to be
protecting it back in the days going to
war for oil was an embarrassing thing to
say now they just don't care by digress
so 26th of October was marked to be
global action day against Puma and you
had people from all sorts of countries
that were protesting against Puma you
got Amsterdam Australia Dublin Italy
Japan London and Malaysia I couldn't
find any of the Arab or Asian countries
maybe because of the time difference the
Arab an agent
trees haven't joined in or maybe they
are still yet to grow a spine what
really surprised me was Belfast Football
Club also joined in as well and we got
some footage from the footlocker in
Manchester and here you can see some
Manchester City fans joining in as well
and hey was a group called code pink in
the US they also joined it and this was
the highlight for me somebody printed
out loads of posters and stuck them in
the tubes in London this wasn't done
officially so people started getting
cheesed off and complaining and that
forced the TfL to say guys it wasn't us
yet it's vital ISM and the people that
you know couldn't join in these things
they started rebranding their own Puma
products I started posting them online
now naturally whenever stuff like this
happens you wanna head the other side
one of the arguments was hey Puma you
doing a good job because you've got
Jewish and Arab football players playing
together just because you got Arab
players playing that doesn't make it
okay who knows what reason they're
playing maybe they don't have enough
money to put food on the table and the
other cry of course is that of
anti-semitism but we all know
anti-semitism is unfair criticism
against Jews but many people try force
the same rule upon Israel
similarly criticizing Muslims is
Islamophobia but criticizing Saudi is
allowed in fact this person's claim of
anti-semitism is anti-semitism and this
was actually put forward by a movement
called the BDS movement but I think it's
a very clever way of hitting these
companies where it hurts because they
let's face it they don't care about
morals they care about profit I was
looking at a lot of these pictures that
were circulating a lot of these people
are non-muslims and this wasn't again
picked up by mainstream media because
anything that unifies us against
oppression is not something the media's
interested in the only interested in
blaming
minority groups and dividing and ruling
us insha'Allah it will wake us up to
continue doing the same whether it's
Palestine the we goes in China the raw
hunger or the Kashmir ease
amongst others yeah Kurds and so on
let's leave it there guys until next
time
assalamu alaikum
you