“We call for an end to all trade with Israeli agricultural companies that are complicit with Israel’s system of occupation, colonisation and apartheid.”
— 2016 Call to action from Palestinian Agricultural Organizations
In 2016, Palestinian agricultural organizations and farmers’ unions issued a call to action urging international organizations to build effective campaigns to work towards ending agricultural trade with Israel. Palestinian farmers face the brunt of Israel’s land confiscations, demolitions and water theft. Palestinian land is systematically seized to make way for Israeli export companies, which profit from this land theft, and from the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. Learn more about Israel’s destruction of Palestinian agriculture on the BDS Movement website.
Brands to boycott
Israeli dates
At least 40 percent of Israeli dates are grown on illegal settlements.
The Israeli date industry requires a great deal of water. Water resources are diverted away from Palestinian villages to grow Israeli dates, contributing to water shortages for Palestinians.
(Source: ampalestine)
Date brands to boycott
Hadiklaim
Jordan River
King Solomon
Medrahin
NavaFresh
ShahCo.
Anna and Sarah
Carmel
Delilah
Edeka
Food to Live
Galil
SincerelyNuts
Star Dates
Tamara Barhi
Urban Platter
Ventura
Israeli wines
Many Israeli wines are produced on illegal settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan. Wineries located within the 1948 borders (i.e., ‘Israel’), including some of the largest commercial wineries in the Israeli market, use grapes originating from settlements in their wines. (Source: No Appetite for Apartheid)
Wine brands to boycott
As of 2016, five wineries accounted for 80 percent of the Israeli wine market:
Barkan Winery (including Segal)
Carmel Wine
Golan Heights Winery
Teperberg 1870
Binyamina Winery
Other Israeli wine brands include: Psagot, Tulip, Covenant, Domain Du Castel, Shiloh, Flam, Carmel Winery, Tabor, Binyamina, Yatir.
Images from Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Sabra hummus
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)
