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Police guard the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 26, 2025, 8:45 pm
UN blacklists another 68 firms over alleged role in Israeli settlement rights abuses
Database of 158 firms accused of enabling settlement activity now spans 11 countries, from construction suppliers to global travel platforms
By AP
A neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Eli overlooking a nearby Palestinian village, January 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
June 30, 2023, 5:47 pm
UN trims ‘blacklist’ of firms doing business in Israeli settlements
15 companies, including US-based General Mills food manufacturer, dropped from database, while 122 firms, including Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Motorola remain
By Jacob Magid
File: View of the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank on July 2, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
December 10, 2022, 7:54 pm
US opposes UN ‘blacklist’ of settlements, says it poses ‘genuine threat’ to firms
State Department says it has not and will not provide info to office compiling database because it ‘reinforces an anti-Israeli bias’ at UN
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, on August 19, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
December 15, 2020, 9:31 pm
US State Department blacklists pro-Iran group in Bahrain
Shiite Muslim Saraya al-Mukhtar poses ‘significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten national security and foreign policy of US,’ Pompeo says
By AFP
San Francisco State University. (Courtesy/J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA)
November 20, 2020, 5:52 am
San Francisco college’s student gov’t passes resolution targeting settlements
Motion would have San Francisco State University withdraw investments from firms that do business in Israeli towns in West Bank, though none currently have ties with school
By Gabriel Greschler
Illustrative: Construction work in the Dagan neighborhood of the settlement of Efrat, in the West Bank on July 22, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 5, 2020, 9:30 pm
In first, UN settlement blacklist used in Norway to urge Israel divestment
International trade unions write letter to world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, calling for it to nix dealings with Israeli banks, TripAdvisor, Motorola
By AFP and ToI Staff
A view of the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ariel, January 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 12, 2020, 7:01 pm
Israel condemns UN list of settlement-linked firms; Palestinians welcome it
Jerusalem concerned the list of 112 firms — 94 of them Israeli — could be used to justify a large-scale boycott, accuse the UN of anti-Semitism and bias
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Honoree Michael Douglas, left, speaks with his father Kirk Douglas before a Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony on Nov. 6, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
February 6, 2020, 8:23 am
Hollywood mourns legendary actor Kirk Douglas
Celebrities take to social media to honor star’s legacy; Spielberg: I’ll miss his fatherly advice, his wisdom and courage; Reiner: He put himself on the line to break the blacklist
By Jocelyne ZABLIT
Michael Lynk briefs reporters at UN headquarters in New York on October 26, 2017. (Kim Haughton/UN)
October 23, 2019, 9:52 pm
UN Palestinian rights official calls for ban on Israeli settlement products
Michael Lynk also urges release of long-delayed database on companies active in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli snipers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza and the potential for demonstrators to try to breach the security fence on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 18, 2019, 5:58 pm
UN panel lists Israelis suspected of war crimes on Gaza border
Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry into last year’s riots to hand ‘confidential file’ to International Criminal Court; Israel has rejected the report
By Raphael Ahren
A crane lowers a caravan to the ground in a new settlement meant to resettle the evacuees of Netiv Ha'avot, in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, May 9, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 5, 2019, 7:59 pm
UN again delays ‘blacklist’ of companies doing business with settlements
In putting off long-delayed report on 206 mostly Israeli and American firms, rights chief Michelle Bachelet cites ‘complexity’ of her office’s task
By AP and ToI Staff
A Tuesday, November 8, 2008 file photo showing the Human Rights Room (Room XX) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
February 13, 2019, 2:53 am
UN set to publish blacklist of Israeli companies operating over Green Line
List, to be released next month, said to include many of Israel’s largest corporations, including Teva pharmaceuticals and defense firm Elbit
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni chairs a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on March 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2018, 2:55 pm
Israel risks global sanctions as MK drags feet on anti-corruption compliance
Despite danger of international blacklisting for non-compliance with OECD tax exchange, Knesset Finance Committee head demands more time to legalize exemption of Orthodox loan orgs
By Sue Surkes
Jon Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Feb. 27, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
August 14, 2018, 8:32 pm
Jerusalem hostel bans Israel ‘haters’ Jon Stewart, CNN…and ToI
NY Times, Natalie Portman and Bernie Sanders also blacklisted by Heritage House for ‘crimes committed against the Jewish people’
By JTA
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. (Courtesy, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah/JTA)
May 28, 2018, 8:34 pm
Rabbinate official appears to blacklist alumni of liberal Orthodox yeshiva
Rabbi Asher Ehrentreu rejects proof-of-Judaism letter from graduates of New York’s Chovevei Torah; Rabbinate denies claim it’s a matter of policy
By Marissa Newman
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