Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

Years after a boycott fight, Ben & Jerry’s Israel debuts a flavor celebrating Israeli resilience

Ben & Jerry’s Israel launches a new flavor inspired by the Land of Israel, featuring local ingredients and symbolic designs, as it marks its post-split identity following a 2021 boycott dispute.

View of the Ben & Jerry's factory shop in Yavne, Israel, July 20, 2021.
The exterior of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn.

Israeli Brand ecoLove among casualties of Brooklyn boycott: 'They boycotted our shampoo'

An Israir flight takes off at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025.

Israir flight diverts to Croatia after being refused landing permission in Slovenia

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces the appointment of Christine Clarke as chair and commissioner for the New York City Commission on Human Rights at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, New York

Mamdani endorses former Columbia encampment organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier


Can Breads Bakery workers really demand that the Israeli owners cut ties with Israel?

Workers at Breads Bakery demanding the cutting of ties to Israel as part of a union push has triggered concerns among those worried about surging anti-Israel sentiment in the United States.

Patrons line out the door of Breads Bakery on Friday, Jan. 9, 2025.

Israel ranks last again in global Nation Brands Index amid sharp perception decline

Israel recorded a 6.1% drop in its overall score, the sharpest decline in the index’s history, placing it at the bottom of the 50-country ranking for a second year in a row.

A placard reading "Free Palestine, Boycott Israel" is held up among protesters carrying Palestinian flags at Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands on August 21, 2025.

Eurovision rule changes threaten Israel's chances at success amid boycotts

CULTURAL AFFAIRS: Iceland joins a growing list of countries boycotting Eurovision 2026 due to Israel’s participation, as new voting rules create challenges for Israel’s success.

ISRAEL HAS been singled out as no country ever has been before at Eurovision. Here, viewers cheer as they watch this year’s Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, in May.

Swiss Eurovision winner Nemo announces they are returning their trophy in protest against Israel

The comments are the latest protest against the European Broadcasting Union, which has seen five countries pull out after it cleared Israel last week to take part in next year's event in Austria.

Nemo, representing Switzerland, performs "The Code" during the Grand Final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmo, Sweden, May 11, 2024.

Iceland to boycott 2026 Eurovision in protest of go-ahead for Israel

Iceland, which has never won the song contest, will join Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia in their boycott of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.

VÆB, representing Iceland, perform "ROA", during the Grand Final of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, May 17, 2025.

Uri Geller: Guinness World Records has bent to politics in new boycott of Israel - opinion

The record for the world’s largest steel spoon was earned in 2018 - but were it to happen today, Uri Geller's application would be rejected.

Uri Geller seen with a Guinness World Records certificate, earned for creating the world's largest spoon in 2018.

Boycotts could hurt Eurovision budget but not the 'show,' host ORF says

At a meeting on Thursday, national broadcasters that make up the European Broadcasting Union cleared Israel to take part in the next contest in May

People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 17, 2025.

Europe once expelled Jewish musicians, now it hunts the only Jewish state - comment

European broadcasters boycotting Israel's Eurovision Song Contest participation frame it as moral courage, but the instinct mirrors patterns that shaped early Nazi-era exclusions of Jewish culture.

A mass rally of Berliners took place in the Sportpalast, where Nazi Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, with ruthless frankness, described the danger facing Europe, 1943.

Germany knows that erasing Israel from various platforms does nothing for peace - editorial

The Germans, speaking from painful experience, believe that this type of exclusion should never be normalized, and attempts to delegitimize an entire people never end well. The world should listen.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to suspend arms deliveries to Israel has unleashed quite a storm at home, says the writer.

Tesco suspends employee for refusing to handle Israeli goods, prompting pro-Palestinian protests

BDS alleged Tesco had suspended the worker “for refusing to handle blood-soaked Israeli goods."

A sign featuring a Tesco logo in London, Britain, September 29, 2025