{"id":2037,"date":"2009-01-19T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2009-01-20T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T00:09:40","slug":"malaysians-ignore-call-to-boycott-us-and-israeli-companies-utusan-malaysia-baffled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2037","title":{"rendered":"Malaysians ignore call to boycott U.S. and Israeli companies. Utusan Malaysia baffled."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/utusan.com.my\/utusan\/info.asp?y=2009&amp;dt=0119&amp;pub=Utusan_Malaysia&amp;sec=Muka_Hadapan&amp;pg=mh_11.htm\">article<\/a> published in the Malay-language newspaper <em>Utusan Malaysia<\/em> hilarious. To recap, Malaysians are supposed to boycott products and services made by companies linked to either the U.S. or Israel due to what&#8217;s been happening in Gaza. This isn&#8217;t anything official and the government has said that it&#8217;s up to the conscience of each Malaysian whether or not to actually boycott anything.<\/p>\n<p>It should be no surprise that Malaysians have by and large ignored the call to boycott. No surprise to anyone except <em>Utusan Malaysia<\/em> apparently. You can just hear the petulance in the article&#8217;s whining over how Malaysians are apathetic to the plight of the Palestinians and continue to patronize businesses like McDonald&#8217;s and KFC. Remember that &#8220;This is Sparta!&#8221; line from <em>300<\/em>. Guess what, <em>Utusan Malaysia<\/em>, &#8220;This is Malaysia!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plus, extra points for trying to link this to justifying the existence of the ISA, however tangentially. Your political overlords must be proud of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I found this article published in the Malay-language newspaper Utusan Malaysia hilarious. To recap, Malaysians are supposed to boycott products and services made by companies linked to either the U.S. or Israel due to what&#8217;s been happening in Gaza. This isn&#8217;t anything official and the government has said that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malaysians ignore call to boycott U.S. and Israeli companies. Utusan Malaysia baffled.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}