*Boycott:*
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Withdrawing support from Israeli and international companies engaged in violations of Palestinian human rights.
*Divestment:*
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divestment campaigns urge banks, local councils, churches, pension funds, and universities to withdraw investments from the State of Israel and all Israeli and international companies that support and fund Israeli apartheid.
*Sanctions:*
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sanctions campaigns pressure governments to fulfill their legal obligations to end Israeli apartheid and not aid or assist it. They work by by banning business with illegal Israeli settlements, ending military trade and free-trade agreements, as well as suspending Israel's membership in international forums such as United Nations bodies and FIFA.
To summarize for you and I, most of what we'll be participating in as individuals is the boycott part. Not giving companies or organizations your money or time when they spend it on/in Israel, when Isreal use it to fund war crimes/genocide/apartheid. Like economic boycotts brought down apartheid south africa we can bring down Isreal's apartheid. Each part of BDS (Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment) is non-violent action aimed at pulling support for institutions that fund and prop-up Israel's apartheid.
*Chevron (+Caltex/Texaco)*
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US fossil fuel multinational Chevron is the main corporation extracting gas claimed by apartheid Israel in the East Mediterranean. Chevron generates billions in revenues, strengthening Israel’s war chest and apartheid system, exacerbating the climate crisis and Gaza siege, and is complicit in depriving the Palestinian people of their right to sovereignty over their natural resources. Chevron has thousands of retail gas stations around the world under the Chevron, Caltex, and Texaco brand names. Groups around the world have joined the campaign to #BoycottChevron. For more resources, visit boycottchevron.info.
*Intel*
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In December 2023, amidst Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Intel announced that it will invest $25 billion in apartheid Israel. In June 2024, following prolonged BDS pressure, and in response mainly to the financial risk of investing in a #ShutDownNation, the tech giant dropped the project, according to Israeli financial media sources. For decades, Intel has been the largest international investor in apartheid Israel. Its plant at “Kiryat Gat” is built on land within the boundaries of the Palestinian village of Iraq al Manshiya, which was ethnically cleansed, razed to the ground, and then replaced by the current Israeli settlement. Intel remains deeply complicit in feeding Israel’s genocidal war chest, so the #BoycottIntel campaign continues.
*DELL*
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Dell Technologies supplies the servers, maintains services and related equipment to the Israeli military as a part of a $150 million 2023 contract funded by US foreign aid. Dell is committed to Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians by establishing research and development activity in Israel’s National Cyber Park that attempts to strengthen illegal settlements in the Naqab, displacing Palestinian Bedouin communities. One month into Israel’s Gaza genocide, founder and CEO Michael Dell donated $350million worth of shares to Israel, further solidifying the genocidal partnership between Israel and Dell Technologies.
*Siemens*
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Siemens (Germany) is the main contractor for the Euro-Asia Interconnector, an Israel-EU submarine electricity cable that is planned to connect Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory to Europe. Siemens-branded electrical appliances are sold globally.
*Hewlett Packard (HP)*
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Hewlett Packard (HP), including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and HP Inc., is a significant enabler of Israel's ongoing occupation. Through its partnerships with the Israeli government, military, prisons and police, HP provides critical technological and logistical support that facilitates war crimes and crimes against humanity, including illegal settlement construction and apartheid in the OPT. HPE supports Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority, a crucial pillar of its apartheid system, by providing technology for its databases and IT systems. HP Inc (US) provides services to the offices of genocide leaders, Israeli PM Netanyahu and Financial Minister Smotrich.
*Microsoft*
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Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide is well documented, exposing its strong ties to the Israeli military, its collaboration with Israeli government ministries, and its involvement in the Israeli prison system, which is notorious for systematic torture and abuse of Palestinians. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity (including apartheid), as well as genocide. Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services that are crucial to empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. Microsoft’s extensive ties with Israel’s military are revealed in investigations by The Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, demonstrating how the Israeli military turned to Microsoft to meet the technological demands of genocide. The BDS movement, in collaboration with allied Microsoft workers (No Azure for Apartheid) are calling for pressure on Microsoft wherever possible when reasonable alternatives exist, including boycotting Microsoft’s Xbox and gaming, cutting institutional contracts with Microsoft and divesting from the company.
*Carrefour*
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The France-based multinational retailer is involved in war crimes committed by the Israeli regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid over the Palestinian people. It started with the French group announcing a franchise partnership with Electra Consumer Products (ECP) and its retail subsidiary, Yenot Bitan, both active in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise. During Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians in Gaza, Carrefour-Israel has supported Israeli soldiers partaking in the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza with gifts of personal packages. Evidence also shows that there is at least one Carrefour-branded branch in an illegal settlement in the OPT. Since its launch, Carrefour-Israel’s complicity has only become worse. Electra Retail Ltd., a subsidiary of Electra Consumer Products, has a partnership with Israeli bank Hapoalim, which is listed in the UN database for complicity in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise. Carrefour has also received loans from four major complicit Israeli banks, and it has established a partnership with six complicit high-tech Israeli start-ups on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, among others.
*AXA*
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Insurance giant AXA (France) holds $150.43 million – US$78.87 million in shares and US$71.56 million in bonds – in eleven companies that are arming Israel during its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, including Boeing and General Dynamics. Both companies’ weapons have been directly linked to Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, including mass killings, such as the bombing of the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in Rafah on 26 May, and the 10 September bombing of Palestinians sheltering in al-Mawasi, which Israel had designated as a “safe zone.”
*Reebok*
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In early 2025, Reebok signed a sponsorship contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes in its official leagues teams in Israel’s illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The IFA actively advocates, together with the Israeli government, to maintain these teams. Palestinians are calling on Reebok to immediately withdraw from the contract, or face a global boycott campaign just as Adidas, PUMA, and Erreà faced before them.
*Disney+*
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Cancel or don’t sign up for Disney+ subscriptions! Disney and its subsidiary Marvel are complicit in glorifying Israel’s regime of genocide and apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians. Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World and Disney’s Snow White star actors Shira Haas and Gal Gadot, respectively, that have consciously and irrefutably taken up roles as cultural ambassadors for Israel, directly representing genocidal Israel’s propaganda efforts. For Captain America, Marvel and Disney are reviving the racist character of Ruth Bat-Seraph, whose decades-old backstory includes working for Mossad. Disney+ is therefore clearly implicated in enabling Israel’s genocide by dehumanizing Palestinians.
*SodaStream*
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SodaStream is an Israeli company that is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of present-day Israel in the Naqab (Negev) and has a long history of racial discrimination against Palestinian workers.
*RE/MAX*
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RE/MAX (US) markets and sells property in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land, thus enabling Israel’s colonization of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
*Israeli produce and other products in your supermarkets*
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Boycott produce from Israel in your supermarket and demand their removal from shelves. Beyond being part of a trade that fuels Israel’s apartheid economy, Israeli fruits, vegetables, and wines misleadingly labeled as “Product of Israel” often include products of illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land, and most Israeli companies exporting these products are complicit in the illegal occupation and apartheid regime. Israeli companies do not distinguish between the two, and neither should consumers.