click for explanation of what the four categories are
We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact.
Many of the prohibitively long lists going viral on social media do the exact opposite of this strategic and impactful approach.
We have split these targets into four sections:
1. Consumer boycott targets - The BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of these brands carefully selected due to the company’s proven record of complicity in Israeli apartheid.
2. Divestment and exclusion targets - The BDS movement works to pressure governments, institutions, investment funds, city councils, etc. to exclude from procurement contracts and investments and to divest from, as the case may be, as many complicit companies as practical, especially arms companies and banks. We rely on the following authoritative sources:
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AFSC list of companies that have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its #GazaGenocide.
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AFSC Investigate database of companies enabling the occupation.
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UN database of businesses involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise.
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WhoProfits database of Israeli and international corporations profiting from the ongoing Israeli occupation.
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Don’t Buy Into Occupation list of businesses involved in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise in the OPT in which European financial institutions have investments.
3. Pressure targets - The BDS movement actively calls for pressure campaigns against these targets. This includes boycotts when reasonable alternatives exist, as well as lobbying, peaceful disruptions, and social media pressure.
4. Organic boycott targets - The BDS movement did not initiate these grassroots boycott campaigns but supports them due to these brands’ complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.
I kind of expected to see Starbucks here. Have they cleaned up their act?
I wonder if there is a online store that let’s you pick corporations you dont want to support and then it just doesn’t list them while you search.
I searched a bit and only found some UPC barcode scanner
No joke, I could totally see this as a tech bro startup
there’s a browser extension :0
no idea if it’s good but that sounds like exactly what ur looking for
e: and here is one for firefox
Maybe a dumb question, but what is the difference between a consumer and organic boycott?
not a dumb question, but it’s explained in the body text (click the spoiler to open the explanation) 😊
Thank you!!
An excellent question because “organic boycott” appears to have been “born” recently. My DDG search of the expression yielded seemingly nothing but results about this conflict. This bit from TIME appears to clarify:
Since the war in Gaza began, BDS has also endorsed new targets it did not initiate—like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Burger King—calling them “organic boycott targets” because of the public support they have received after their brand franchises appeared to support Israel.
The article mentions one branch of Siemens and then says boycott them by not buying Siemens appliances, Siemens doesn’t even own their appliance brand, they sold it to Bosch in 2014.
I learned this yesterday and thought, wow, I can contribute and then you’re already here. Damn. I can only add details. Siemens and Bosch founded BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte {household appliances}) in 1967. This company grew into a behemoth with 60,000 employees and 15 billion revenue. And as was mentioned, while Bosch and Siemens co-owned BSH, Siemens sold its shares to Bosch in 2014.
i’m not smart enough to understand this but if you find this to be a flaw definitely see about reaching out to them to either clarify or fix this list!
One good thing about being poor is that you don’t have to worry about where your money is going, because you never had it in the first place.
virgin bougie lefty: boycotts starbucks because instagram told them to
chad downtrodden proletariat: boycotts everything because they can’t afford anything more than basic food and housing
disclaimer
this is a meme if you are boycotting starbucks for their shitty behavior in relation to Gaza and unions i totally support <3 just jokes 🫶
Wait, I work at McDonalds, and don’t really have any other choices, everywhere else either pays too little, I quit, or I was fired. So what do I do
boycott activism is about inflicting economic loss on the business by abstaining from purchasing goods and services. while boycotts can sometimes entail employee action, it is never expected of you to take action that would result in harm to you or your family. take care of yourself first so that you have the power to fight for others ❤️
these boycotts are mainly about avoiding buying from these companies, not working at them.
if you do wanna help though, you can try to waste as much of their money as possible, for example by slacking off or giving customers extra food (of course if this is your only means of living not getting fired should come first)
I believe in activism for important causes, but even I think it would be best to stay right where you are because your departure would, imo, have little impact. If I were there, I suspect I’d stay quiet and try to focus on what I must do to bring about my next upgrade at McDs, somewhere else, or something I made on my own. I imagine at McDs it’s possible to get in a “zone” where you and the tasks become one or something like that. I worked at Wendy’s, but never achieved the “zone” because I wasn’t there long enough to see how the operation’s various pieces came together to make the whole thing work. Best to you.
Dude missed Meta
like id ever need more reason to boycott fucking hp, or mcdonalds and such.
on a semi related note i hate that there are very few, if any, corporations are not involved in actively making the world worse somehow. just let me exist without funding some genocide or something and having to keep track of all these brands on which one is the least fucking damaging.
Any direct action ideas to take against some of these companies.
Anything from minor inconveniences to actual criminal acts I’m down for.
I support this boycott, especially because we should be minimizing consumption in general. We need to get the youth invested in taking power back from these corporations and lame politicians who think we’re a problem that can be suppressed.
Dems are delusional to think that this isn’t the dumbest move they’ve ever made. I’m preparing for the end of liberal democracy more than ever before thanks to the utter contempt they’ve shown towards us recently. I’ll always vote for the lesser evil, but I know many won’t if the Democrats don’t make drastic changes.
I’ll shed no tears for any pro genocide Dem that gets targeted by Trump if he wins. If they lose this election, it’ll be because they failed. If a dictatorship is established, we shouldn’t pretend that the state deserves anything but euthanasia. If the last semblance of democracy gets extinguished in America, we need to turn ourselves into porcupines and ensure every attack on us is as painful for them as possible.
I’ll shed no tears for any pro genocide Dem that gets targeted by Trump if he wins
Uhh Trump will go for the anti genocide people first, I’m not sure you’ve thought this through
True, but not because they were anti genocide. Trump cares so little about the conflict that he celebrated Hamas on October 7th because of personal beef with Netanyahu. He’ll go after the anti genocide people for being farther left in general. He’ll go after all Democrats for simply standing in his way.
High profile Dems that supported genocide will get targeted more than low profile Dems that opposed it. Pelosi and Biden will get targeted more than even AOC or Sanders because they personally annoyed him more.
Nice but why is a can telling me this?
Thank you! This is helpful.
Source: a tumblr post
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oof, I didn’t know Carrefour was complicit in the Gaza stuff 😓
People of conscience around the world are rightfully shattered, enraged, and sometimes feeling powerless about Israel’s #GazaGenocide.
Pulled from the linked article… i can’t help but fucking laugh at how tasteless that # is
eh i dunno. social media has proved to be a powerful tool for mobilizing.
i get how on an aesthetic level if you are used to seeing tags used for “trends” or “drama” it can come off wrong, but i wouldn’t come down on them as tasteless.
