No Appetite for Apartheid!
Declare You Have No Appetite for Apartheid!
Say NO to Apartheid and Zionism on your community’s store shelves. Start a campaign in your city!
No Appetite for Apartheid is a national boycott campaign launched by the Palestine Solidarity Working Group and powered by a growing number of local grassroots coalitions. Inspired by long-standing Palestinian boycott tactics and the BDS call, we are canvassing local stores in our communities and asking them to pledge to become Apartheid Free Stores by dropping food products and companies that are complicit in the colonization of Palestine from their shelves. It’s time to turn up the heat on this apartheid regime and take apartheid off our plates with the #NoAppetiteForApartheid campaign.
About the campaign:
Why a food boycott?
- The U.S. is the biggest importer of Israeli food products: $396 million in 2019. This is one of the many ways in which the U.S. subsidizes the economy of the occupation.
- The Israeli food industry is a supporter and beneficiary of the political economy of settler colonialism: from products grown and manufactured on stolen Palestinian land; to exploiting low-paid Palestinian labor; to the profits and taxes that are used to fund the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
What products are we boycotting?
- Sabra: co-owned by the Strauss group, sponsor of the IOF and “authorized supplier” to the “defense ministry”
- Israeli wines: wineries often operate in illegal settlements or use settlement-grown grapes
- Sadaf: USPCN has called for a boycott of this brand, who masquerade as “Middle Eastern” to infiltrate and profit off Palestinian & Arab communities while materially supporting Zionist settler economies and lobbying.
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Any produce labeled “Made In Israel” including:
- Dates: brands like Jordan River, King Solomon, Galilee Export, Carmel Agrexco, Star Dates, and more
- Other: brands like Jaffa Oranges, Mehadrin, Agrexco, Arava, Tivall, and more
Why do you focus on canvassing local stores and asking them to become Apartheid Free?
- This tactic is explicitly aligned with the ongoing effort to create Apartheid Free Zones globally.
- Removing complicit Israeli products from stores has a material impact on Zionism.
- Canvassing and engaging with the local community provide opportunities for base-building and development of relationships, which strengthens our movement as a whole.
Is there a way I can check if a product should be boycotted?
- Use the Buycott app ($2) to scan barcodes and find out if a product is complicit. Search for the “Long live Palestine, Boycott Israel” campaign in the app.
- Check labels: barcodes starting with 729 or 871 indicate products made by companies based in Israel.
How do I get involved?
Fill out our interest form to receive the Campaign Toolkit and receive invites to campaign-related events! Our organizers will follow up with you.
Contact
Email us at [email protected] for any further inquiries.