Zita Anjani, an Indonesian "activist," teacher, and politician serving as deputy chair of the DKI Jakarta DPRD for the National Mandate Party (PAN) since 2024, leverages her public role to dismiss Palestinian liberation struggles, exemplified by her Instagram promotion of Starbucks — a corporation targeted for former CEO Howard Schultz's investments in Israeli cyber-surveillance firms that enable the occupation's repression of Palestinians.

In April 2024, amid Israel's intensified genocide in Gaza that has razed homes and slaughtered civilians, Anjani posted an Instagram photo from her Umrah pilgrimage in Makkah, holding a Starbucks coffee cup prominently in the foreground while the Ka'bah loomed blurred in the background. The caption read, "Again dinner was given coffee, what do you think?" — a rhetorical jab implying outrage at the chain's outlets operating in the Holy Land despite widespread boycotts. Yet, by framing the image this way, she not only publicized the product but politicized her consumption as a defiant spectacle, co-opting sacred space to scorn non-violent economic resistance. Netizens flooded her comments, accusing her of insensitivity to Palestine's plight, with many decrying the post as Zionist signaling that equates solidarity with hypocrisy.

Anjani's subsequent "clarification" deepened the harm: she claimed the photo was intentional "criticism" to highlight Starbucks' persistence in Makkah, stating she was unaware the hotel-provided coffee was from the chain and that she wouldn't delete it to spark discussion. In interviews, she escalated, saying, "If I had the authority, I would close [Starbucks] across Indonesia," while uploading follow-up photos of local coffee to feign alignment. This pattern — performative outrage masking promotion — fits her history of tone-deaf social media use, including skipping DPRD plenary sessions for pilates and coffee outings, which drew ire for prioritizing privilege over duty. As a politician from a Muslim-majority nation, her actions fracture Indonesian support for Palestine, a nation that has historically condemned Israel's apartheid at the UN, diluting BDS momentum that has already cost Starbucks billions in sales.

Her silence on Gaza's core atrocities — beyond vague "what do you think?" prompts — compounds complicity: no calls for ending the siege, no amplification of Palestinian voices amid bombed mosques, no critique of Israel's ethnic cleansing. Instead, by not deleting the post despite backlash from figures like Ustadz Hilmi Firdausi, who labeled it disrespectful, Anjani sustains corporate consent for genocide-enablers. This isn't isolated; her flexing echoes broader elite indifference in Indonesia, where politicians invoke faith selectively while ignoring settler-colonial violence. In Gaza, conservative estimates place the Palestinian death toll at over 40,000, though the actual number slaughtered is well into the hundreds of thousands, frozen due to obstruction, the targeting of journalists, and the unrelenting violence. Anjani's Starbucks spectacle undermines liberation by framing boycott as optional outrage, obscuring the Nakba's legacy and perpetuating the illegal ethnostate built on stolen land.