List of boycotts

This is a list of boycotts.

Past

Time frame	Participants	Target	Cause	Main article	References
March 1769	Philadelphia merchants First Continental Congress	Great Britain	Opposition to colonial taxation without representation	Continental Association
1848	Milan	Austria	Austrian state monopolies	Five Days of Milan
1880	Irish Land League	Charles Boycott (origin of the term boycott)	Desired land reform in Ireland		[citation needed]
1891	Iranian Shia	United Kingdom	The Shah's granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain	Tobacco Protest
1891-1950	Australian unionists and local residents	Local publicans and hotels around Australia	Poor wages and conditions for staff in hotels and the high cost of alcohol, accommodation and food		[1]
1902	Jews in New York City	Kosher meat products	Price increases causing unaffordability	1902 kosher meat boycott
1904–1906	China	United States	The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1902, an extension of the original Act of 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act		[2][3]
1905-1907	Indian National Congress Indian independence movement	British Raj	Opposition to the partition of Bengal and a desire for Indian economic independence	Swadeshi movement	[4]
1912	Tunisia	Compagnie des tramways de Tunis, all Italian businesses in Tunis	Young Tunisians	Tunis Tram Boycott
1919	China	Japan	May Fourth Movement	Chinese boycotts of Japanese products
1919-1922	Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi	British Raj	Opposition to the Rowlett Act and demands for self-rule	Non-cooperation movement
-1927	American Jews	Ford Motor Company	Antisemitism by Henry Ford in The Dearborn Independent
1930-1934	Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru	British Raj	Demands for Indian independence	Civil disobedience movement
March 1933	American Jewish Congress International critics of Nazism	Nazi Germany	Antisemitism in Nazi Germany	Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933
April 1933	Nazi Germany	German Jews	Anti-Nazi boycotts	Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
1941–1951	Iraq	Iraqi Jews	Farhud		[5]
1942-1945	Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru	British Raj	Demands for Indian independence	Quit India
1948	Nii Kwabena Bonne III Kwame Nkrumah	Association of West African Merchants	Price inflation	1948 Accra riots
1950	Soviet Union	United Nations	The UN not recognising the People's Republic of China as 'China'	Soviet Union boycott of the United Nations
1955–1968	African Americans	Various	Racial segregation in the United States	Civil Rights Movement Montgomery bus boycott
1961–1983	West Berlin	Berlin S-Bahn	East German operation of the S-Bahn	Berlin S-Bahn
	United Farm Workers	Grapes and lettuce in retail grocery stores	Labor disputes	Delano grape strike
1960s–1990	Various academics	South African universities	Apartheid	Academic boycott of South Africa
	Various	South African produce	Apartheid	Disinvestment from South Africa	[citation needed]
1966–1987	Various	Coors Brewing Company	Anti-LGBT hiring practices Discrimination towards minorities and women and anti-unionism	Coors strike and boycott	[6]
Early April 1973	Americans	Meat products	Increasing prices	1973 meat boycott
1984–1993	INFACT	General Electric	Production and promotion of nuclear weapons	Corporate Accountability International
1988-1994	Australian Rainforest Action Groups	Companies importing rainforest timber from Malaysia to Australia	Prevention of the destruction of Indigenous owned rainforests		[7]
1989–1998	Rainforest Action Network	Mitsubishi	Rainforest destruction through its forestry activities	Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign	[8]
1990-1991	African Americans in New York	Korean-American businesses	Racial tensions	Family Red Apple boycott
1991–1998	Friends of the Lubicon	Daishowa	Proposed logging of Lubicon Cree territory		[9]
1996	CDU/CSU	Mission: Impossible, Phenomenon and Chick Corea	Association of Corea, Tom Cruise, and John Travolta with Scientology, which is not legally recognized in Germany	Mission Impossible (film) § Marketing	[10]
1990s–2000	Andrew Vachss	Thailand	Prostitution of children in Thailand	Don't! Buy! Thai!
1998–2003	American gun owners	Colt Smith & Wesson	Colt and Smith & Wesson's cooperation with Bill Clinton's gun control efforts		[11]
2001–2002	Greenpeace Friends of the Earth People & Planet	Esso/ExxonMobil	Esso's climate change denial and lack of investment in renewable energy	Stop Esso campaign
2003	US conservatives	Various celebrities, such as the Dixie Chicks	Celebrity opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq	Dixie Chicks comments on George W. Bush
2005	Association of University Teachers	Bar-Ilan University University of Haifa	Bar-Ilan's operations in the West Bank Haifa's discipline of a lecturer	Association of University Teachers § Boycott of Israeli universities 2005
2005-2006	Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd	Nissui Company, Sealord Tuna, Gorton's Seafood	Involvement of parent company in whaling		[12]
2005–2013	International Labor Rights Fund and others	Firestone Tire and Rubber Company	Forced labour and child labour on rubber plantations in Liberia	Firestone Natural Rubber Company	[13][14]
1 May 2006	Illegal immigrants in the United States	US businesses and schools	US immigration policy	Great American Boycott
2008	German labor unions	Nokia	Nokia's closing of a German plant		[15]
2008	Stonewall	Heinz	Heinz's pulling of a commercial featuring two men kissing		[16]
2009	Various countries	Durban Review Conference	Scope of the conference	Durban Review Conference#Boycotts
2010	Various	BP	Deepwater Horizon oil spill	Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill#Public reaction
2010	Various	Arizona	Racial profiling law		[17]
2011	Israelis	Tnuva	Rising food prices and price gouging	Cottage cheese boycott
2013-2020	350.org	Numerous Australian banks, universities and local governments	Divestment from fossil fuels		[18]
2018	Moroccans	Bottled water and dairy products	Price gouging and corruption	2018 Moroccan boycott
2019	Residents of Louisiana	National Football League CBS Sports	Negligence in rules enforcement that kept the New Orleans Saints out of Super Bowl LIII	2018 NFC Championship Game	[19]
2024	Social media users, primarily TikTokers	Various celebrities and social media influencers	Support for Israel in, or lack of action over, the Gaza war	Blockout 2024
2025	David Portnoy (withdrew), Christian McCaffrey, Cheryl Bosa, Bills Mafia	National Football League Fox Sports	Alleged match fixing and officiating misconduct in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs, particularly in the 2024 AFC Championship Game	Super Bowl LIX boycott	[20]

Sporting

Event	Participants	Host nation	Cause	Main article	References
1936 Summer Olympics	Athletes from 22 nations	Nazi Germany	German fascism and Nazism	People's Olympiad
1938 FIFA World Cup	Various South American nations	France	Selection of a second successive World Cup in Europe		[citation needed]
1939 International University Games (Vienna)	Confédération Internationale des Étudiants	Nazi Germany	German annexation of Austria
1956 Summer Olympics	Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, China	Australia	Suez Crisis, presence of the Soviet Union after the Hungarian Revolution, and the presence of Taiwan		[citation needed]
1964 Summer Olympics	China, North Korea, Indonesia	Japan	Suspension of Indonesia	GANEFO
1966 FIFA World Cup	31 Confederation of Africa Football nations	United Kingdom	Play-off qualifications and readmission of apartheid South Africa	1966 FIFA World Cup § African boycott
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off)	Soviet Union	Chile	1973 Chilean coup d'état
1976 Summer Olympics	Various African nations	Canada	Participation of New Zealand, which had sporting contact with apartheid South Africa	Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era
1980 Summer Olympics	United States Various nations	Soviet Union	Soviet–Afghan War	1980 Summer Olympics boycott
1984 Summer Olympics	Warsaw Pact states (except Romania) Cuba	United States	1980 Summer Olympics boycott	1984 Summer Olympics boycott Friendship Games
1986 Commonwealth Games	32 Afro-Asian nations and 10 Caribbean nations	United Kingdom	The Thatcher Government's attitude towards sporting links with South Africa	Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era
1988 Summer Olympics	North Korea Albania, Cuba, Madagascar, Seychelles	South Korea	Korean conflict		[citation needed]
1995 South Pacific Games	Western Samoa, American Samoa, Nauru, Niue	French Polynesia	French nuclear weapons testing in Mururoa
2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 9	United States, Canada, Czech Republic, Ukraine	Russia	Russian doping scandal Russo-Ukrainian War
2022 Winter Olympics	Diplomats from various countries	China	Chinese human rights issues	Concerns and controversies at the 2022 Winter Olympics § Diplomatic boycotts or non-attendance

Electoral

Main article: Election boycott § Major instances of electoral boycotts

Ongoing

Initiation	Participants	Target	Cause	Main article	References
1949	Arab League	Israel	Partition of Palestine	Arab League boycott of Israel
1977	Various	Nestlé	Nestlé's promotion of infant formula over breast milk in developing countries	Nestlé boycott	[21]
1989	Liverpudlians	The Sun	The Sun's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster	Coverage of the Hillsborough disaster by The Sun § Merseyside boycott	[22][23][failed verification][24][failed verification][25][26]
2003	Numerous union organizations including SINALTRAINAL	Coca-Cola Company	Anti-union violence in Colombia and environmental degradation in India	Criticism of Coca-Cola	[27][28]
2005	Various human rights and anti-occupation activists	Israel	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
2005	Various Muslims worldwide	Denmark	Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy	Economic and social consequences of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy	[29]
2008	Opponents of California Proposition 8	Supporters of California Proposition 8 and Utah	LDS Church support for Proposition 8	Protests against Proposition 8 supporters	[30]
2008	Center for Biological Diversity	Bluefin Tuna fishing	Overfishing of Bluefin Tuna, leading to their status as an endangered species.		[31]
2009	LGBT groups	The Salvation Army	The Salvation Army's opposition to homosexuality		[32]
2010	Canvass for a Cause and other LGBT groups	Target Corporation and Best Buy	Donations to politician Tom Emmer		[33][34][35][36]
2010	Boycott BP	BP	Deepwater Horizon oil spill	Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill	[37]
2011	LGBT groups	Chick-fil-A	Chick-fil-A's CEO's support of politicians who oppose same-sex marriage	Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy	[38]
2011	Various	Fossil fuel industry	Global warming	Fossil fuel divestment
2012	PETA	Air France	Shipping monkeys to laboratories for experimentation		[39]
2013	Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and various others	Chevron Corporation	Failure to adequately clean up widespread oil pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon from its former Texaco operations	Lago Agrio oil field	[40] [41]
2013	Survival International	Botswana	Eviction of indigenous San people from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.	Ancestral land conflict in Botswana	[42]
2013	International Labor Rights Forum	Theo Chocolate	Not living up to "fair trade" label because of proven union busting		[43][44]
2013	Palestinians living in the United States	Syria, Iran	Syria and Iran's treatment of Palestinians		[45]
2013	Ukrainians	Russian products	Russian embargoes and the Russo-Ukrainian War	Do not buy Russian goods!
2013-2014	LGBT groups	Russia, Stolichnaya vodka, 2014 Winter Olympics	Russia's anti-LGBT policies		[46]
2014	Citizens of Washington, D.C.	Tourism to Maryland's 1st congressional district, Eastern Shore of Maryland	Interference in District of Columbia home rule	Boycott of Maryland's 1st congressional district
2014	Various	Nabisco	Switching production of products from the United States to Mexico	Oreo boycott
2015	Ethical Consumer	Amazon	Tax avoidance, poor treatment of workers, anti-competitive practices.	Criticism of Amazon	[47]
2016	American Family Association	Target Corporation	Mixed sex bathrooms and changing areas		[48]
2016	Various	Corporations backing Donald Trump	Policies and rhetoric of Donald Trump	GrabYourWallet	[49]
2017	Right-wing commentators and fans of Andy Signore	Screen Junkies	Defy Media firing him due to allegations of sexual harassment		[50]
2018	Various companies with ties to the NRA	National Rifle Association of America	Stoneman Douglas High School shooting	2018 NRA boycott	[51][52][53]
2018	Various companies with ties to The Ingraham Angle, and The Ingraham Angle itself.	The Ingraham Angle	Laura Ingraham attacking Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg	Boycott of The Ingraham Angle
2018	Various companies with ties to Sinclair, and Sinclair itself.	Sinclair Broadcast Group	Conservative media bias of Sinclair; Sinclair mandating local news to attack certain news organizations	Boycott of Sinclair Broadcasting Group
2018	Various	Nike, Inc.	Featuring of Colin Kaepernick in its advertising campaign, who sparked controversy by kneeling in protest during the national anthem	U.S. national anthem kneeling protests	[54]
2019	Right-wing commentators and fans of Vic Mignogna	Crunchyroll, LLC and Rooster Teeth	Severing of ties with Vic Mignogna following sexual harassment allegations		[55]
2019	Various	Turkey	Turkish invasion of Rojava	2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria	[56]
2019	South Koreans	Japan	Japan–South Korea trade dispute	2019 boycott of Japanese products in South Korea	[57][58]
2020	Indians	China	2020–2021 China–India skirmishes	Boycott of China in India
2020	Muslim world	France (products)	French response to the murder of Samuel Paty	Murder of Samuel Paty	[59][60]
2021	American conservatives	The Walt Disney Company	Disney's firing of Gina Carano from the Disney+ series The Mandalorian		[61][62]
2022	Various multinational corporations	Russia and Belarus	Response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	Boycott of Russia and Belarus
2022	Romanians	Austria	Austrian veto on Romania's bid to join the Schengen Area.		[63]
2022	Twitter users and advertisers	Twitter (X)	Increase of hate speech on Twitter, and Elon Musk's political activities	Twitter under Elon Musk	[64]
2022 (accelerated in 2025)	Tesla consumers	Tesla	Elon Musk's political activities, primarily the Department of Government Efficiency from 2025	Tesla Takedown	[65]
2023	American conservatives	Project Veritas	Project Veritas' removal of James O'Keefe.		[66]
2023	American conservatives	Anheuser-Busch (specifically Bud Light)	Bud Light's sponsorship of Dylan Mulvaney.	Bud Light boycott	[67]
2023	American conservatives	Activision (Call of Duty)	Call of Duty supporting Pride Month after removing a pack dedicated to Nickmercs.		[68]
2024	Canadians, spearheaded by the subreddit r/loblawsisoutofcontrol	Loblaws stores and its divisions	Accusations of greedflation amidst rising profits as grocery prices increase	2024 Loblaw boycott	[69]
2025	Southeastern Europeans	Major retail stores	Inflation and high food prices	2025 Southeast Europe retail boycotts	[70][71]
2025	Numerous people worldwide	United States	Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to annex territory (Canada and Denmark)	2025 United States boycott (in Canada: 2025 Canadian boycott of the United States)	[72]
2025	The People's Union USA, and other organisations	Various companies, including Amazon, Target and Walmart	Reversal of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, the Department of Government Efficiency's actions in the United States federal government and corporate greed in general	Economic Blackout	[73]
2025	Nintendo consumers	Nintendo (Nintendo Switch 2)	Accusations of corporate greed and anti-consumerism after revealing the Nintendo Switch 2's price		[74]

See also

• Lists portal

• Moral purchasing