r/BoycottIsrael

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The world’s largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has cut ties with Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva over its links to the country’s military and a long record of corruption and bribery scandals.

Following the decision, the RCN removed Teva UK as a sponsor and partner of an upcoming event at the union’s headquarters in London.

Pro-Palestine groups hailed the move as “a major breakthrough” for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate Israel over the Gaza genocide and its apartheid policies in the occupied West Bank.

The RCN, which represents nearly 600,000 nurses, acted after Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges (UKHPRC) campaigned against the partnership.

In a public letter, nurses, midwives and healthcare professionals warned that Teva UK is “entangled with the Israeli military, part of the institutional apparatus of apartheid and responsible for corporate malfeasance”.

The letter also criticised the RCN leadership’s invocation of “political neutrality” in response to previous attempts by members to “take a clear, principled stand on the ongoing genocide in Gaza”.

“Accepting commercial sponsorship from a corporate titan deeply woven into the Israeli state’s military apparatus, and its wartime mobilisation, is the very antithesis of neutrality,” the signatories wrote.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/worlds-largest-nursing-union-cuts-ties-israeli-drugmaker-teva

I’m still learning about certain boycotts and I’m not sure if target is on this list and see a lot of mixed opinions from different lists. I need something that I can only find at target but it’s a nonessential item

I got a chance to go to the UK, and I probably won’t get such a chance again. I don’t know if I should go, considering that it supports Israel. I can’t choose another country, either I go or I don’t

I'm not sure if this is a rant or a question but this has been on my mind ever since the isreal Palestine gaza and whatever they're doing thing started.

JUST TO CLARIFY, I AM NOT STANDING WITH WHATEVER ISREAL IS DOING AND I DO FULLY BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE BOYCOTTED AND DEALT WITH! PLEASE DON'T MISUNDERSTAND MY WORDS!

we're making apps on what to boycott and we have big lists but.. does it really do something? I feel like the 5 dollar shampoo I buy or don't buy doesn't matter when, suppose, trump will just 100x the amount and send it to isreal. I don't buy a 5 dollar shampoo and trump sends over 5 million to make up for it, that's what it feels like to me.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing this, I fully believe that if enough people joined this boycott, there will definitely be a difference. It just feels like Israel is too big of a problem now and simple boycotting won't do shit when they've got actual help from presidents of different governments.

Again, in no way, shape, or form am I putting down the people who boycott, I try to avoid those products too until absolutely necessary (I'm broke as hell 💔) but it's really starting to feel hopeless

i struggle with self discipline regarding going to places i dont need to go to, like mcdonalds, burger king and starbucks. i fully recognize that there is no excuse, but i don’t really know what to do now? it feels like i’m directly responsible for killing palestinians, so how exactly am i meant to make up for that? is continuing to try really enough? is this a false equivalency in my brain? i am successful with so many other places, hell i usually try with these places too, but ultimately, for reasons i just can’t explain, i fail sometimes. i keep excusing it with “oh it’s just this one last time” or “oh it’s just as a treat” but that doesn’t change anything

but even if there is a way to make up for this, and this one is definitely more selfish, do i deserve to be happy while doing so? to be happy while working on that self discipline? even if i do manage to make up for everything do i deserve to never be feeling the shame ever again?

please just be at least civil to me about this, i’m really at a loss for what to do with myself and am genuinely looking for advice. i’m sorry to the Palestinians for my own lack of discipline, it’s not good enough and you deserve better from me.