M&S Christmas ad

This is insane levels of paranoia but doesn't surprise me, given that there was an anti-Israeli demo targetting the M&S in Glasgow before the ad furore, because M&S was founded by a Jewish person.

This reminds me of my Liverpool days where most Saturdays the pro-Palestinians on Bold Street would march down to M&S to demonstrate 🙃 Because obviously M&S are responsible for Israel's actions. Utterly pathetic.

This is beyond ridiculous - if ads are airing now they would have been shot months ago. It’s so ludicrous it’s laughable.
oh and if we want to talk about companies with Jewish founders - there is a long list, entrepreneurship comes when persecution has meant there is nothing else to do but make your own luck.. I think Tesco also had Jewish founders amongst many many others..

The hate M and S are getting on instagram is horrible, red and green are festive colours, it’s clearly antisemitism .
Not that the conspiracy nutters want to close all Shops owned by Jewish people because that could never happen ….oh wait

Seems very obviously like an unfortunate coincidence to me.

But why would they? What do they gain from the negative pr? If they wanted to make a statement, why go to these lengths to try and subtly do it? I don't understand what people think the thought process would be for a huge company like M&S to decide to put out something so controversial, but to do it in a really (REALLY) subtle almost non existent way.
It's conspiracy theory nonsense.

Next people will be criticising the use of the word Christmas because it has some of the same letters as Hamas.

I was coming on to say the same.

Does this also mean we can no longer display red, green and white lights on trees or other decorations.

I saw their justification post on Instagram this morning, saying it was an outtake from the filming in August. I don't think it flies as the hats in the ad are metallic, the fire post looks hastily cobbled together and isn't in the same style, so I call bullshit.

Absolute nonsense. The palestinian flag is red, green, white & black. The hats are christmas colours red, green & silver. The blue eye shadow conspiracy theory is too nonsensical to even discuss.

This is very clear antisemitism because M&S started as a Jewish company.

It does reveal the conspiracist frame of mind of many people though.

I mean don't they film these ads in July or something? And I Woodings even have noticed. The colours of the Palestinian flag are also traditionally the colours of Christmas-and the blue is just showcasing their eye make up range. People will read anything into anything it seems to me!