Colin Sheridan: Small sacrifices can make a big difference

Your children may not thank you now for boycotting McDonald's over Gaza but they'll understand why in time

People gather at Israel's Nitzana border crossing with Egypt in southern Israel, protesting against the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Picture: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP

It is, I understand, a sad indictment of the privilege into which they were born, but depriving our children of their random trips to McDonald's fast food emporium may well prove to be a formative event in their development.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a quarter-pounder meal as much as the next embattled parent, but world events have caused a butterfly to flap its wings, and the repercussions of Israel’s psychopathic bid to erase the Palestinian people should cause every one of us to audit our casual life choices. This may sound sanctimonious and performatively opportunist, but we are so far past the point of self-interest that I — the most conflict-averse person to ever eat a chicken nugget — no longer care about accusations of virtue signalling.