Starbucks CEO says ‘We stand for humanity,' looks to separate company from Israel-Palestine statements by labor union

The chief executive of Starbucks Corp. thinks the recent spike in vandalism at some of its coffee-shop locations is based on a “misrepresentation” of the company’s beliefs on the Israel-Hamas war.CEO Laxman Narasimhan attempted to distance the Seattle-based company from the controversy caused in part by comments seen as pro-Palestinian by Starbucks Workers United, the labor group pushing for unionization at the chain.“Many of our stores have experienced incidents of vandalism. We see protestors influenced b ...