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Israel's war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza has sparked a battle over hummus in the United States.

Tubs of the chickpea spread were defaced with stickers that claimed the contents were “contaminated with apartheid and Zionism," at three Pennsylvania supermarkets according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The bright yellow labels stuck on the lids of Sabra-brand products also reportedly urged shoppers to "boycott Israeli goods."

Sabra is a joint venture between Israel-based Strauss Group and PepsiCo.

Acme Markets — a supermarket chain in the City of Brotherly Love — said the stickers were "removed as quickly as possible," the Inquirer reported Thursday.

The company also said it was cooperating with law enforcement authorities to “prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law."

Strauss Group joined PepsiCo to buy Sabra Salads for an undisclosed amount in 2007, Reuters reported at the time.

A Strauss Group spokesperson declined to comment on the Pennsylvania incidents, the Inquirer said.

All of the reported tagging took place in Lower Merion Township, a suburban area northwest of Philadelphia.

Proponents of the anti-Israel BDS movement — the acronym stands for "boycott, divestment and sanctions" — have called for customers to avoid Sabra hummus since at least 2010 over the Strauss Group's support of the Israel Defense Forces' Golani Brigade.

Its soldiers have repeatedly been accused of abusing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In May, three Golani Brigade soldiers received jail sentences of up to 60 days for beating a Palestinian man and leaving him in a secluded area, the Times of Israel reported at the time.

The Strauss Group removed references to the IDF from its English-language website in November 2010, the Jerusalem Post reported at the time, citing a BDS group in Philadelphia.

A short time later, Strauss Group chairperson Ofra Strauss told Forbes she hoped the boycott effort was "over" but reiterated her support for Israel's military.

"For us, Israeli soldiers are not army; Israeli soldiers are our kids," she said in a report posted in December 2010. "And when children of this country are in need, we will be there."

The recent hummus stickering in suburban Philadelphia was reported just four days after activists held a pro-Palestine protest outside a falafel shop in Philadelphia.

Goldie is Jewish-owned and serves Israel-style food.

Demonstrators chanted, “Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!” over a fundraiser that the eatery's Israeli-born co-owner held to buy gear for Israeli military medics operating in Gaza.

Local activists also said they targeted the restaurant over claims the owners fired employees for supporting Palestinian causes.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian restaurant chain Ayat in New York City saw its East Village outlet dinged with multiple one-star reviews following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that sparked its latest war with Israel, according to the Jewish news website the Forward.

The mass denunciation was reportedly prompted by the inclusion in the eatery's menu of the phrase "From the river to the sea," which appears in the Hamas charter that calls for replacing Israel with a Palestinian state.

In Queens, the Palestinian owner of the King of Falafel and Shwarma restaurant told the Forward that he was repeatedly harassed while operating a food cart following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

"People passed by and started calling, ‘You’re a terrorist. Go back. You don’t belong here,'” Fara Zeideia said. “I’d say I’m from Palestine, and they’d say, ‘There is no Palestine.’”

Zeideia also accused Israeli restaurateurs of appropriating Palestinian cuisine, saying he corrects customers who call his chopped tomato-and-cucumber dish an "Israeli salad."

“You got to say, ‘I want the Palestinian salad,’ and I’ll give it to you," he said.