There are other BDS campaigns still ongoing in Canada, including against Indigo Books over CEO Heather Reisman’s funding of Israeli lone soldiers; against companies selling wine, dates, and citrus produced in illegal settlements; and against the Azrieli Foundation, the Canadian charitable arm of an Israeli real-estate developer.

“It became clear that the bank was more concerned about the inconvenience of protests outside their offices than the ethical implications of their investments in Elbit,” Hammond recalled. “Three white female Scotia executives were literally crying crocodile tears—not over Elbit’s role in genocide, but because they had to walk past protesters to get to work.”

When Airbnb announced in 2018 that it would de-list properties in illegal Israeli settlements, Israeli authorities and pro-Israel advocacy groups threatened the company with lawsuits.

And in 2021, when Ben & Jerry’s released a statement saying it would stop selling ice cream in Israeli settlements, then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett vowed to take “aggressive action” and the Israeli government dispatched diplomatic envoys to pressure the company and its parent corporation.

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