How to boycott

You may feel compelled to boycott all products and companies tied in any way to Israel. There are many lists circulated on social media with hundreds of brands and companies, but these tend to be overwhelming, and prevent boycotts from being effective.

How do we make sure our actions have an impact? By strategically focusing on a small number of carefully selected companies and products. We need to target companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning.

How do I get started?

Every single one of us can have impact and it starts with our individual consumer habits, as well as the influence we may have on businesses around us.

  1. Read more on how targeted boycotts work.

  2. Review our boycott targets below.

  3. Sign the customer pledge to join the campaign, and stay up to date on actions and events.

  4. If you own a business in the Austin area, join us as an Apartheid-Free business.

Boycott targets

Food products

Sabra is a joint venture between PepsiCo and the Strauss Group, an Israeli food company that provides financial support to the Israeli army. Strauss removed information on their support for the occupation forces from their website in 2010, amidst a wave of boycotts, but concedes it still sells food to the military, and in its own financial report, identifies itself as an “authorized supplier to the Ministry of Defense” (p. 147) (Source: No Appetite for Apartheid)

Sadaf sources 70% of its goods from “israeli” settlers, ranging from canned goods and spices to herbs and grains. These items are labeled as coming from “israel,” Palestine, or sometimes other countries. Sadaf is a customer of Israel Discount Bank-New York (IDB-NY), which has an office for businesses with needs in “israel,” including offshore money management.

For more information, visit https://boycottsadaf.com/

Hadiklaim, Jordan River, King Solomon, Medrahin, and Carmel are some of the biggest Israeli date companies, but all dates with “Product of Israel” on the packaging should be avoided.

At least 40 percent of Israeli dates are grown on illegal settlements, often grown using exploited Palestinian labor. The Israeli date industry is water intensive, diverting water away from Palestinian villages and contributing to water shortages for Palestinians. (Source: ampalestine)

Gas stations

Chevron is the main corporation extracting gas claimed by apartheid Israel in the East Mediterranean, depriving Palestinian people sovereignty over their natural resources. Chevron has over 30 gas stations in Austin under the Chevron and Texaco brand names.

Fast food companies

McDonald’s, Burger King, Domino’s, Papa John’s, and Pizza Hut, or their branches or franchisees in Israel, have openly supported apartheid Israel and/or provided generous in-kind donations to the Israeli military amid the current genocide.

Technology companies

HP provides services and technology to the Israeli army, and helps run the biometric ID system that Israel uses to restrict Palestinian movement.

Siemens plans to link Israel’s electricity grid with Europe’s, allowing illegal settlements to benefit from Israel-EU trade of electricity produced from fossil gas.

Other brands and companies

AHAVA cosmetics is an Israeli company that has its production site, visitor center, and main store in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory.

SodaStream is an Israeli company that is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of present-day Israel and has a history of racial discrimination against Palestinian workers.

PUMA is a sponsor of the Israel Football Association, which governs teams in Israel’s illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

RE/MAX markets and sells property in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land, thus enabling Israel’s colonization of the occupied West Bank.