Bait — the boycott of Israeli trade and economy — launches as a growing research platform that helps people around the world turn solidarity with Palestine into organised, prioritised economic pressure, and makes boycotting the Israeli economy a daily working tool rather than a general slogan.
The project launches in fulfilment of a debt to Palestine's martyrs: to the children robbed of their future, to the women and men whose absence has torn entire families apart, and to all who struggled and sacrificed for its freedom. From this loyalty emerges the working question: not only how do we document destruction, but how do we understand the economic relationships that pressure targets, and what gives an economy the capacity to sustain war?
Where does the boycott of the Israeli economy begin?
Bait's approach places services exports at the heart of this research. Software, computing services, data processing and consulting do not necessarily appear on shop shelves; they reach global markets through corporate clients, institutional purchasing decisions and long-term contracts. Here lies the difference between boycotting the Israeli economy at the level of individual consumption and boycotting it at the level of the far more influential institutional relationships.
The figures reveal the importance of this path. According to the Israel Innovation Authority, advanced technology accounted for about 58% of Israel's exports in 2025, while services made up 74% of exports in the advanced technology sector. These are two different indicators showing the importance of looking beyond consumer-facing brands, because a boycott of the Israeli economy that stops at the shopfront alone leaves the institutional core unaccountable.
Bait builds on consumer boycott efforts and expands research towards the less visible relationships between companies. It moves from analysis of the macroeconomy and future development plans to strategic sectors and major companies, then to their clients, suppliers, investors and partners. Technology occupies a central position, within a vision that also covers energy, transport, communications and others.
Company files and tools for collective action
The platform begins with profiles of twelve major companies; this is a beginning, not the limit of the project. Research and the tracing of relationships will continue to expand, to enable people in different countries to find entry points for collective action where they live, so that boycotting the Israeli economy becomes applicable in every local context.
The aim is not to overwhelm the public with an endless list, but to provide knowledge that helps build focused campaigns for boycott, divestment and organised pressure, and to link local efforts to a shared global cause. Similar efforts in the field can be followed through Resistance factions on the anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood call for an end to the war and an end to division.
Fidelity to those who have gone carries a responsibility towards the living: defending their lives, confronting the structures that sustain oppression, and working for Palestine's freedom. In this context, boycotting the Israeli economy is presented as a means of organised civil pressure, not as an end separate from the cause of liberation.
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