{"id":6290,"date":"2013-06-27T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:38:07","slug":"mcdonalds-wont-open-in-jewish-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6290","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s won&#8217;t open in Jewish settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mcdkosher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6292\" alt=\"mcdkosher\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mcdkosher-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mcdkosher-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mcdkosher.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Israeli branch of McDonald&#8217;s says it won&#8217;t open a restaurant in a Jewish settlement to protest Israel settlement policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Irina Shalmor, spokeswoman for McDonald&#8217;s Israel, said the owners of a planned mall in the Ariel settlement asked McDonald&#8217;s to open a branch there about six months ago. The chain refused because it is the policy of McDonald&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s owner to stay out of the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">The decision was not coordinated with McDonald&#8217;s headquarters in the U.S., she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Israeli lawmakers have protested the decision, reported in local media Thursday. One says she&#8217;ll boycott the chain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Tzahi Nehimias, co-owner of the mall, says Burger King and an Israeli burger chain both offered to open branches at the mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli branch of McDonald&#8217;s says it won&#8217;t open a restaurant in a Jewish settlement to protest Israel settlement policy. Irina Shalmor, spokeswoman for McDonald&#8217;s Israel, said the owners of a planned mall in the Ariel settlement asked McDonald&#8217;s to open a branch there about six months ago. The chain refused because it is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s won&#8217;t open in Jewish settlement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[3538,178,3539,3149],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-burger-king","tag-israel","tag-jewish-settlements","tag-mcdonalds"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mcdkosher.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}