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The BDS National Committee lists Israeli produce as a “priority boycott target.”

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[–] EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

A Palestinian-Canadian owned chain.

Jack Rabba, the founder of Rabba [...] described moving to Canada as winning the “lottery of life,” and referred to Canadians as the “greatest people in the world.”

In 2021, Canada Convenience Store News reported, “[Rabba president Rick Rabba’s] family were Palestinian immigrants who came to Canada in 1966 with little money. His mother worked at the University of Toronto library and his father [Jack Rabba] got a job at a restaurant, then a hotel and a convenience store.”

Over 1 batch of grapefruit in 1 store (and rumours of tangerines), this journalist confronted floor staff, the location manager, the head office, Jack, the Palestinian BDS National Committee and the Canadian BDS Coalition. Just to ask questions, of course.

Dude could use his platform to go after Pattison, a Weston, Metro or Empire for the same. Instead we get this misleading headline.

tl;dr - Davide found some grapefruit from Israel-Palestine in one (1) store. He went searching for more Israeli produce in other Rabba locations and couldn't find any. No one would return his JAQ phone calls. Useful info here.