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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:

  • AFSC list of companies that have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its #GazaGenocide.

  • AFSC Investigate database of companies enabling the occupation.

  • UN database of businesses involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise.

  • WhoProfits database of Israeli and international corporations profiting from the ongoing Israeli occupation.

  • 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.

  • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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

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        8 months ago

        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.