2022 has been another monumental year in the growth of the Palestinian-led BDS movement. Here are some victories from the last year that you might have missed.
General Mills claims their decision to shutter a factory in an illegal West Bank settlement wasn’t due to activist pressure, but the company’s logic doesn’t hold up.
On May 31, General Mills announced that it had divested from its business in Israel and would stop making Pillsbury products in an illegal West Bank settlement. The move came after a two-year campaign by the American Friends Service Committee, which called on consumers to boycott Pillsbury products until they stopped manufacturing on stolen land. Michael Arria speaks with the AFSC’s Economic Activism Director Dov Baum about the successful boycott campaign, and what comes next.
On May 31 General Mills announced that it divested its stake in its Israeli subsidiary. For the last two years the company has been targeted by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) over the fact that some of its Pillsbury products are manufactured in an illegal Israeli settlement.
Given that there were so many important BDS fights in 2021, here are some products you probably won’t be interested in this holiday season, and the activists you can thank for it.
Ainsworth United Church of Christ of Portland, Oregon just pledged to be a Pillsbury-Free-Church in support of Palestinian human rights. Join us!
Five members of the Pillsbury family say the company should be boycotted as long as it operates in an illegal Israeli settlement.
For the last couple years, we’ve heard a lot about the perils of “Cancel Culture” and the free speech crisis that has plagued our universities, but it’s very clear that this alleged problem only applies to certain viewpoints. The people who push these narratives don’t care if Palestinians or advocates for Palestine are literally silenced.