From an Irish supermarket worker’s grassroots act to state-led initiatives, a protest grows. But pro-Israel groups battle back. One afternoon late August in a quiet Irish seaside town, a supermarket worker decided he could no longer separate his job from what he was seeing on his phone. Images from Gaza, with neighbourhoods flattened and families buried, had followed him to the checkout counter. At the time, Israel’s genocidal onslaught had killed more than 60,000 Palestinians. His first act of protest was to quietly warn customers that some of the fruit and vegetables were sourced from Israel. Later, as people in Gaza starved, he refused to scan or sell Israeli-grown produce. He could not, he said, “have that on my conscience”. Within weeks, Tesco supermarket suspended him. He requ...