Since the start of the attacks in Gaza there have been 600 protests in Jordan - outside the Prime Ministry, outside the Israeli Embassy, and anywhere where it is easy to fit a lot of people. Friends live on the outskirts of town next to a yet undeveloped valley that was the site of one protest probably because it could fit a lot of people.
Protestors have called for the boycott of Israeli and American products (the U.S.'s long-term support of Israeli is seen as complicity). There aren't many Israeli products actually available here but I have heard that American restaurants like McDonalds have taken a sales hit. One of the protests was actually against Starbucks and multiple Starbucks sit-ins occured simultaneously. Several coffeeshops in our posh neighborhood now have their Canadian flags (their parent companies are Canadian) prominently displayed.
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