Grassroots Corporate Campaigns for Palestine
In recent years, Palestine solidarity activists have pressured corporations to end their complicity in the Israeli regime’s violations of Palestinians’ rights. As a result, companies like Ben & Jerry’s, Veolia, and Pillsbury, among others, have pulled their products and services from Israeli markets, albeit to varying extents. How, exactly, have these successes been achieved? What are some of their limitations, and how hopeful should we be for a proliferation in corporate boycotts of Israel?
To answer these questions and more, watch Al-Shabaka’s Nadim Bawalsa in conversation with Adalah Justice Project’s Sandra Tamari and BDS Movement co-founder, Omar Barghouti for Al-Shabaka’s first policy lab of 2023.