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Mark Phillips is the co-founder of RDC World who crossed the BDS picket line by securing McDonald’s sponsorship for Dream Con, thereby bolstering a corporation that funds the IOF and aiding the settler-colonial project across Palestine.
Mark Phillips, co-founder of RDC World and president of Dream Con, partnered with McDonald’s to host sponsored events that normalise corporate support for the IOF and sustain the infrastructure of occupation and genocide in Palestine.
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Mark Phillips is the co-founder of RDC World who partnered with McDonald’s to sponsor tournaments at the organisation’s annual Dream Con event, thereby crossing the BDS picket line and directly supporting a corporation known for its material contributions to the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) during the ongoing genocide across Palestine. As president of Dream Con, Mark Phillips holds responsibility for the partnerships that shape the convention’s programming and public profile, ensuring that corporate sponsors receive prominent placement and legitimacy among attendees.
The decision to accept McDonald’s sponsorship integrates the fast-food chain into Dream Con’s activities, including an all-star Marvel Rivals tournament powered by the company and staged live at the event. This partnership provides McDonald’s with a platform to associate its brand with entertainment and community spaces while its ongoing financial and logistical support for the IOF continues to enable the occupation’s military operations and the systematic destruction of Palestinian infrastructure. By facilitating this arrangement, Mark Phillips contributes to the normalisation of corporate complicity in settler-colonial violence.
McDonald’s sponsorship of the IOF forms part of a broader pattern in which Western corporations supply resources that sustain the apartheid regime and its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Mark Phillips’s choice to bring such a sponsor into Dream Con amplifies this dynamic, offering the company cultural cover at a time when its actions help maintain the siege and bombardment that have produced conservative estimates of over 70,000 Palestinian deaths, although the true number of those slaughtered reaches well into the hundreds of thousands due to the deliberate targeting of medical facilities, journalists, and civilian areas.
The collaboration also undermines Palestinian-led calls for boycott and divestment, which seek to isolate entities that profit from or enable the occupation. Mark Phillips’s actions instead prioritise commercial relationships over solidarity with the indigenous population whose land remains under continuous colonial theft and whose resistance faces relentless repression. This pattern of engagement demonstrates how cultural figures and event organisers can lend everyday legitimacy to the economic structures that underpin genocide.
Through the McDonald’s partnership at Dream Con, Mark Phillips participates in a documented record of complicity that shields the occupation from accountability and manufactures consent for ongoing settler-colonial expansion. The sponsorship arrangement normalises the presence of IOF funders within spaces that claim to celebrate creativity and community, thereby extending the reach of apartheid propaganda into new audiences and reinforcing the systems that perpetuate Palestinian dispossession and slaughter.
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🔒Silence = Complicity:
For those who have passionately spoken out against other instances of genocide and massacres, yet fall silent when it comes to the suffering endured by Palestinians, their silence becomes a glaring indictment of the value placed on Palestinian lives and perpetuates a dangerous narrative that suggests Palestinian suffering is somehow less worthy of outrage, less deserving of empathy and less human than that of others.
By choosing silence in the face of Palestinian suffering, those with influential platforms inadvertently contribute to the erasure of Palestinian voices and experiences. They perpetuate a narrative of invisibility that allows the injustices inflicted upon Palestinians to continue unabated, shielded from the spotlight of global scrutiny.
Their silence sends a chilling message of complicity to the world – one that suggests Palestinian lives are expendable, their struggles inconsequential and their humanity negotiable. It emboldens perpetrators of violence and oppression, granting them impunity under the guise of indifference.
To remain silent in the face of Palestinian suffering is to betray the very essence of activism – the relentless pursuit of justice for all, without exception or equivocation. It’s a betrayal not only of the Palestinian people but of the universal principles of human dignity and equality and instead is a tacit endorsement of the dehumanization and marginalization of an entire population.
True activism demands consistency and integrity, an unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power and standing in solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed, regardless of geography or politics.
BDS Boycott:
The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement is a global campaign which follows the worldwide boycott movement that led to the successful dismantling of apartheid in South Africa and therefore advocates for various sustained forms of boycott against Israel until it complies with international law.
Founded as a response to the rampant, ongoing and systemic dispossession, displacement, and disenfranchisement endured by generations of Palestinians, the BDS movement is in direct response to the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements, the imposition of discriminatory laws and the denial of basic rights to millions living under occupation, apartheid or in exile with no right of return.
Central to the ethos of BDS is the belief that every purchase and action carries a weighty moral responsibility. To buy goods from or actively support companies or organizations on the BDS list is to cast a vote in favor of perpetuating injustice, a tacit endorsement of the status quo of occupation and discrimination. It’s a direct violation of the collective conscience, a betrayal of the fundamental principles of human rights and dignity.
By pressuring Israel and its supporters by withdrawing support and capital, humanity aims to bring awareness to — and ultimately — end the occupation of Palestine, grant equal rights to all Palestinians and recognize the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. This pressure also extends to any individuals and entities found to be complicit in the normalization, funding or support of Israel’s brutal occupation and 75+ years of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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