boycotts

A gay couple is seen in ad released by Doritos ahead of Family Day in Israel. (Screen capture: YouTube)

January 30, 2022, 11:13 pm

Doritos faces boycott calls over Israeli ad featuring gay and lesbian couples

Snack-maker reportedly not planning to take down advertisement released ahead of Family Day, which was condemned by some conservative religious Jews

By TOI staff

A woman wearing takes photos near the logos for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing, China, Nov. 9, 2021 (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

December 7, 2021, 12:36 pm

US to boycott Beijing Winter Olympics due to human rights concerns

China says move violates spirit of Games, calls on Washington to ‘stop politicizing sports’

By AP

Illustrative: People take part in a MMA (Mixed Martials Arts) training session, on May 2, 2016 in Paris. (Francois Guillot/AFP)

July 31, 2021, 11:47 pm

Lebanese athlete said to pull out from MMA contest to avoid facing Israeli

Hezbollah-linked outlet says Abdullah Miniato has withdrawn from world youth martial arts championship in Bulgaria because he refuses to recognize Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Saudi Arabia’s judoka Tahani Al-Qahtani faces off against Israel’s Raz Hershko, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, on July 30, 2021. (Israel Olympic Committee)

July 30, 2021, 8:55 am

Israeli bests Saudi in historic judo match at Olympics; medal count remains at 1

Raz Hershko, Tahani Alqahtani shake hands following fight; 2016 bronze medalist Or Sasson defeated in early stages

By Emanuel Fabian

Ben & Jerry's ice cream pictured on sale in Jerusalem on July 20, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

July 20, 2021, 6:53 pm

PA applauds Ben & Jerry’s for ending sales in settlements

In first Palestinian response, Ramallah’s foreign ministry applauds ice cream company for boycotting ‘illegal, immoral, imperial’ settlements

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

July 20, 2021, 1:21 pm

In Unilever call, PM vows ‘vigorous’ response to Ben & Jerry’s settlement ban

Bennett tells CEO move to freeze ice cream sales is ‘clearly anti-Israeli,’ has serious implications; envoy to US urges 35 state governors to act against ‘antisemitic practices’

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

US singer Patti Smith performs 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' by absent Literature prize winner Bob Dylan during the awardings of the Nobel Prizes in medicine, economics, physics and chemistry in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/TT News Agency/JESSICA GOW)

May 28, 2021, 9:18 am

Patti Smith, Julian Casablancas among 600 musicians to urge boycott of Israel

Letter accuses Jerusalem of operating ‘a settler-colonial project committed to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population’

By JTA

Arab-Israeli protesters gather outside the residence of the French Ambassador to Israel, in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2020, in response to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

October 24, 2020, 11:58 pm

Arab Israelis rally against Macron over his defense of Mohammed cartoons

200 attend protest in Jaffa; in Gaza, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups condemn and threaten French president

By AFP

July 31, 2020, 3:56 am

Amid ADL-led ad boycott, Facebook reports soaring revenues and user numbers

Social media giant reports profit nearly doubled, despite high-profile campaign meant to get company to remove toxic posts; ADL head says it’s about the message, not the money

By AFP and TOI staff

July 29, 2020, 12:41 pm

In post-Corbyn UK, Jews unite against Twitter’s lax response to anti-Semitism

Having learned from deep partisan rift over incidents of Jew-hatred in the Labour Party, British Jewry across the political, religious spectrum protests online hate speech together

By Matthew Kalman

Rep. Lee Zeldin introduced a measure that would would add language to 1970s-era anti-boycott laws that targeted the Arab League boycott of Israel. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, JTA)

January 15, 2020, 3:34 am

US House bill would penalize compliance with EU and UN boycotts of Israel

Legislation ‘protects American companies from being forced to provide information to international organizations that peddle BDS,’ Jewish Republican sponsor says

By JTA

An Iraqi demonstrator gestures as tyres burn during a protest in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, south of the capital Baghdad, on December 22, 2019. (Mohammed SAWAF / AFP)

December 25, 2019, 8:42 pm

Iraqi protesters proudly boycott Iranian goods as anger simmers

Move comes amid fury over Tehran’s influence in its economy, with exports from Iran to Iraq 10 times those moving in opposite direction

By Salmane Ameen

Israeli kickboxer Ameer Asad at the world championship in Turkey, November 27, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

November 27, 2019, 4:47 pm

Jordanian, Iranian kickboxers skip matches against Israeli at world championship

Ameer Asad receives double walkover but laments boycott; Israeli federation slams ‘ugly’ and ‘unsportsmanlike’ act

By Michael Bachner

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson presents his Conservative Party's Manifesto for the General Election campaign, in Telford, England, November 24, 2019. (Frank Augstein/AP)

November 26, 2019, 12:12 am

UK’s Conservatives pledge to ban local councils from boycotting Israel

In election manifesto, Boris Johnson’s party says it will stop public bodies from imposing their own ‘disinvestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries’

By JTA and TOI staff

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, listen as US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

July 18, 2019, 12:37 pm

PM to decide if BDS supporters Omar and Tlaib allowed to visit Israel — report

Democratic congresswomen, planning trip next month, could be routinely denied entry under 2017 boycott law, but Netanyahu can decide to waive the rule

By TOI staff