Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid | Ethical Consumer

You are in: Home Boycotts List Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid Share this: By Jasmine Owens Thursday 7th of March 2024 Boycotting brands that are complicit in Palestinian human rights violations is a powerful form of consumer activism, but how ethical is the product you buy instead? “At least do us no harm”, says founder of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Omar Barghouti. Part of what he means by this is for everyone to stop making purchases from or investing in companies that actively support Palestinian human rights abuses.But even if we switch to a brand that isn’t complicit in apartheid, it may be complicit in other types of harm to people, the planet, and other animals.For this article, we've used recommendations from our ethical shopping guides to enable people to find alternatives to boycotted brands that are a little, or a lot, more ethical than competitors in their sector. For our guides we analyse comp...