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Tesco

Supermarkets & GroceriesBanking 122 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-07-18
BDS-1000 Score 313 /1000 D Tier D - Moderate
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.01 Economic ↗ 4.18 Political ↗ 4.11

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Tesco - BDS-1000 Forensic Dossier

Key Findings

  • Economic: Tesco has sourced settlement-linked agricultural produce for nearly two decades - from 2007 Tomer-settlement dates mislabelled “Made in Israel”1 through 2013 Corporate Watch allegations against supplier Mehadrin2 to a 2020 review finding continued stocking of Jordan Valley and Golan-linked produce3 - despite a 2014 announcement that it would stop selling West Bank-origin goods4.
  • Political/Labour: A November 2025 Northern Ireland worker suspension for refusing to handle Israeli-origin goods triggered sustained cross-border protest and union solidarity action, ending in the worker’s January 2026 reinstatement to a reassigned role56.
  • Digital: Tesco’s only substantive Israel-linked technology relationship is a 2019 minority investment in Trigo, a Tel Aviv computer-vision checkout startup founded by IDF Talpiot-programme veterans, used in a handful of UK autonomous stores78.
  • Not found: No public evidence of any Tesco role in defence contracting, arms supply, military-linked digital/surveillance exports to Israeli security bodies, or appearance in UN OHCHR or PAX settlement/arms databases910.

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameTesco plc
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom (London Stock Exchange-listed, UK-incorporated public company)11
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom (Welwyn Garden City area, per corporate governance records referenced in audits)
SectorGrocery and general-merchandise retail; retail banking (formerly, via Tesco Bank, sold to Barclays 2024)12
OwnershipPublicly listed (LSE); widely held by institutional asset managers with no single controlling shareholder identified13
Key Executives / GovernanceKen Murphy (CEO); Gerry Murphy (Chair), whose other directorships (Burberry, British American Tobacco, Merlin Entertainments, Novar, Abbey National, Reckitt Benckiser) show no defence-industry or Israeli-company ties111415
Israeli-Nexus SummaryOrdinary-course retail sourcing of Israeli and West Bank/Golan settlement-linked agricultural produce, plus a minority 2019 investment in Israeli checkout-technology startup Trigo; no operations, contracts, or holdings in Israel/OPT identified

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Tesco’s documented Israel/Palestine nexus is almost entirely commercial and reputational rather than military or digital. Across the four domain audits, the company’s principal, recurring vector is grocery supply-chain sourcing: Tesco has for nearly two decades purchased Israeli-grown and, at various points, West Bank- and Golan-linked settlement produce (dates, citrus, avocados, mangoes, herbs, wine) from suppliers including Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Carmel Agrexco (defunct 2011), and Achdut-Achva, several of which operate packing or growing facilities inside the occupied Jordan Valley or the Golan Heights1319. Civil-society investigations (Corporate Watch, Who Profits, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians) have repeatedly flagged mislabelling of settlement produce as “Produce of Israel,” and Tesco has twice - in 2007 and 2013 - responded to specific allegations, on the first occasion admitting an “error”1220.

The second most significant and currently most active vector is political/labour: in November 2025 a Tesco worker in Newcastle, County Down was suspended after refusing to handle Israeli-origin goods, precipitating weeks of cross-border protest, a BDS-organised petition, and union solidarity statements in Ireland, Britain, and Norway; Tesco reinstated the worker in January 2026, reassigning him away from handling Israeli goods, without further public comment52162223. This episode sits alongside a longer boycott-campaign history dating to at least 2009 (a customer boycott helpline)24 and continuing through 2025 reporting that Tesco “Finest” jacket potatoes marketed online as “British” were found in-store labelled “produce of Israel”2526.

A third, smaller vector is Tesco’s 2019 minority investment in Trigo, a Tel Aviv-based computer-vision checkout-automation company whose founders are IDF Talpiot-programme veterans; the technology has been piloted in a handful of UK autonomous “GetGo” stores78. This relationship is civilian retail-automation technology; no audit found any kinetic, targeting, or security-service repurposing of it, nor any Tesco-Israel defence, intelligence, or surveillance-export relationship.

What is explicitly not supported by evidence across all four domains is any Tesco role in arms manufacture, defence-prime supply chains, military logistics, export-licensing violations, or provision of surveillance/AI systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies. Tesco does not appear in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database or the PAX arms-and-financiers survey, and it is not a party to the principal live UK export-licensing litigation (Al-Haq v Secretary of State for Business and Trade)9102728. Tesco’s sale of its banking arm to Barclays in 2024 removed any residual Tesco-branded financial exposure, though campaigners have targeted the surviving Tesco-branded product on account of Barclays’ separate arms-financing record1229.

These facts collectively support the human-vetted BDS-1000 scores: a Economic score of 4.18 and Political score of 4.11, driven by sustained, verifiable, but non-military settlement-adjacent sourcing and reputational/labour controversy, against near-zero Military (0.00) and Digital (0.01) scores reflecting the absence of any defence or security-technology nexus. The resulting composite Balanced Risk Score of 313 places Tesco in Tier D (Moderate).

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
2006Tesco representatives reportedly indicated moves to reduce a line of Israeli-sourced peppers amid consumer pressure (referenced in audit narrative; underlying documentation not independently recoverable)
2007Corporate Watch documents Medjoul dates from the West Bank settlement of Tomer, packed by Carmel Agrexco and labelled “Made in Israel,” destined for Tesco; Tesco admits acting “in error” and pledges future West Bank-origin labelling1
2009Tesco operates a customer boycott helpline fielding queries about Israeli-sourced products24
January 2013Corporate Watch alleges Tesco supplier Mehadrin (via Mehadrin Tnuport Export) mislabels settlement-grown produce as “produce of Israel”2
3 April 2013Tesco submits a formal response to the mislabelling allegations20
Christmas 2013Tesco’s own-brand “King Solomon” Medjoul dates remain on shelves labelled “West Bank (Israeli Settlement Produce)“3
July–September 2014Tesco announces it will stop selling West Bank-origin products from September 2014, citing “commercial reasons” and denying any link to the concurrent Gaza conflict4303132
October 2019Tesco makes a strategic investment in Trigo, a Tel Aviv computer-vision checkout startup, as part of a $22M Series A round7
2020A supply-chain review finds Tesco continuing to stock Israel-labelled produce and settlement-linked suppliers (Hadiklaim, Miriam Shoham/Mehadrin) despite the 2014 commitment3
October 2022Trigo raises $100M with Tesco named as a strategic investor; Tesco expands autonomous “GetGo” store trials833
9 February 2024Barclays announces acquisition of Tesco’s retail banking business12
October 2024International Centre of Justice for Palestinians issues legal notices to Tesco and seven other UK supermarkets over settlement-product sourcing34
17 October 2024UK High Court approves Part VII transfer of Tesco Bank accounts to Barclays despite pro-Palestinian objections concerning Barclays’ Elbit Systems ties12
1 November 2024Barclays completes acquisition of Tesco’s retail banking business (~£600m); Tesco retains a 10-year brand-licensing arrangement1218
December 2024ICJP calls on UK government to review supermarket complicity in settlement trade ahead of Christmas retail period35
August 2025Open letter alleges Tesco “Finest” jacket potatoes advertised online as “British” but labelled “produce of Israel” in-store25
November 2025Tesco worker in Newcastle, County Down suspended after refusing to scan/sell Israeli-origin goods; protests and union solidarity actions follow across Ireland, Britain, and Norway521
November–December 2025Reporting again finds Tesco “Finest” jacket potatoes labelled “produce of Israel” in stores2636
16–19 January 2026Tesco reinstates the suspended worker, reassigning him to a role not requiring handling of Israeli goods622
February 2026Al Jazeera surveys the Tesco case within a wider growth of European Israeli-goods boycott movements21

Corporate Overview

Tesco plc is a UK-incorporated, London Stock Exchange-listed grocery and general-merchandise retailer with no golden-share, state-ownership, or controlling-shareholder structure identified; its largest shareholders are institutional asset managers13. Tesco has no Israeli subsidiary, franchise, office, warehouse, or store, and no public evidence identifies any Israeli tax or regulatory registration for the company13. Its only equity-level relationship with an Israeli company is a minority strategic investment in Trigo (Trigo Vision/Trigo Retail), a Tel Aviv-headquartered computer-vision checkout-automation firm, first made in 2019 and expanded through subsequent funding rounds; Trigo maintains its roughly 200-person development centre in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, and US78. This is explicitly a minority investment, not an acquired or controlled subsidiary.

On the supply side, Tesco’s Israel/OPT-linked commercial relationships run through ordinary supplier contracts rather than a dedicated import subsidiary: Mehadrin (citrus, avocados, dates, with settlement-linked packing/growing sites in the Jordan Valley and, via its 50%-owned Miriam Shoham subsidiary, the Ramot settlement in the occupied Golan Heights)19; Hadiklaim, the Israel Date Growers Cooperative, whose Jordan Valley-packed dates have been photographed on Tesco shelves under supermarket own-label branding3; the now-defunct Carmel Agrexco, documented in 20071; and Achdut-Achva, a tahini/halva manufacturer based in the Barkan Industrial Estate in the West Bank, whose products are sold via Tesco’s online store37. Product listings for Psagot Winery and Barkan wine - both West Bank settlement wineries - have separately been located on Tesco’s online grocery platform38394041.

Tesco’s former retail-banking arm, Tesco Personal Finance plc (Tesco Bank), was sold to Barclays Bank UK plc, with completion on 1 November 2024 for approximately £600 million following High Court Part VII approval; Tesco Stores Ltd retains a 10-year exclusive brand-licensing and strategic-partnership arrangement, but governance and financial control of the underlying business passed to Barclays1218.

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of any contract, tender, framework agreement, or MOU between Tesco and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police, and Tesco does not appear in SIBAT directories, defence-exhibition catalogues, or Israeli procurement registries. Tesco’s only documented relationship with Israeli technology is the civilian Trigo checkout-automation investment; Trigo’s co-founders, Michael and Daniel Gabay, are IDF Talpiot-programme veterans with backgrounds in Sayeret Matkal’s technology arm and an IDF data-science unit, but no public evidence identifies any kinetic, targeting, fire-control, or other military repurposing of the checkout technology7. No public evidence identified of Tesco-linked heavy machinery, construction equipment, or infrastructure supply connected to settlements, the separation barrier, or military installations; no supply relationship to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, or IMI/Elbit Land; and no logistical/sustainment contracts servicing IDF bases or detention facilities.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

A cross-check against the UN OHCHR settlement-business database found Tesco is not named94243. The PAX coalition’s 2024 survey of companies arming Israel and their financiers does not list Tesco as an arms company or financier10. Tesco is neither a party to nor referenced in the judgment of Al-Haq v Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the principal live UK export-licensing litigation concerning Israel2728. No public evidence identified of any UK, EU, or other export-licence action naming Tesco, nor of any embargo or sanctions-compliance enforcement action against the company relating to Israel.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Tesco’s substantive digital-domain Israel nexus is the Trigo investment and its resulting deployment: three GetGo autonomous, checkout-free stores in London and Birmingham use Trigo’s computer-vision technology, which performs biometric-adjacent identification of customers and tracked items8. Separately, Tesco ran a 10-week trial (from January 2026) of Auror’s crime-reporting platform across 40 Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire stores, using retrospective (non-live) facial recognition on stored CCTV stills to flag suspected shoplifters, operated via Tesco’s Security Hub in Daventry464748. In 2013, Tesco also installed Quividi face-detection signage (OptimEyes) at roughly 450 petrol stations for age/gender-targeted advertising, which Tesco characterised as “face detection” rather than facial recognition49. AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Microsoft all operate Tel Aviv/Jerusalem-area data-centre regions, and Tesco uses AWS and Google Cloud globally, but no public evidence identified specifically ties Tesco’s data processing to those Israeli regions or to Project Nimbus, the Israeli government’s cloud contract with AWS and Google5051.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of direct procurement relationships between Tesco and Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, or Claroty. No public evidence identified of any Tesco role in defence, intelligence, or offensive-cyber technology provision to Israeli state or security bodies, of AI/autonomous systems provided to Israeli military or security forces, or of R&D facilities, patents, or licensing arrangements with Israeli institutions (Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute). No public evidence identified of Tesco board members or executives with disclosed ties to Unit 8200, Talpiot, NSO, or Palantir-Israel.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Tesco sources multiple agricultural product lines from Israeli exporters with documented settlement operations. Mehadrin - Israel’s largest citrus/avocado/date exporter - states its products “are marketed in Europe through Tesco,” with roughly 15% of its fruit output going to the UK; Mehadrin operates a grape-packing house at Beka’ot, crop production at Messua, packing at Tomer and Na’aran (all Jordan Valley), and, via its 50%-owned Miriam Shoham subsidiary, mango packing in the Ramot settlement, Golan Heights19. Hadiklaim dates, packed in the Jordan Valley, have been photographed on Tesco shelves labelled “Produce of Israel”3. Carmel Agrexco’s Tomer-settlement Medjoul dates were documented in Tesco’s supply chain in 20071. Achdut-Achva, based in the Barkan Industrial Estate (West Bank), sells tahini, halva, and bakery goods via Tesco’s online store37. Product listings for Psagot and Barkan settlement wines have been located on Tesco’s grocery website384041. Tesco’s only Israel-linked equity exposure is its minority investment in Trigo, whose founders are IDF Talpiot veterans, contributing to a $22M Series A round in 2019 and subsequent $100M round in 20227833.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Tesco announced in 2014 that it would stop selling West Bank-origin products, and its current stated position is that it “does not source products from Judea and Samaria [West Bank]” and follows UK government origin-labelling rules426. No public evidence identified that Tesco uses a dedicated import subsidiary for Israeli/OPT goods; sourcing runs through ordinary supplier relationships. No public evidence identified of Israeli state ownership in Tesco, Israeli government board appointees, or golden-share arrangements tying Tesco to Israeli state objectives. Tesco has no operational presence (stores, warehouses, workforce) in Israel or the OPT, and no evidence identifies Israel as a disclosed strategic or growth market in its investor materials. Litigation naming Tesco over these issues was reportedly dismissed53. By contrast, peer retailer Co-op voted in 2025 to stop stocking goods solely sourced from Israel, a step Tesco has not matched545556, and a 2020 review nonetheless found continued stocking of Israel-labelled and settlement-linked produce after the 2014 commitment3 - an unresolved tension the audits carry as documented fact rather than resolving in either direction.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Tesco’s political-domain nexus centres on labour action and boycott campaigning rather than any state-partnership or lobbying activity. In November 2025, a worker at Tesco’s Newcastle, County Down store was suspended after refusing to handle or scan Israeli-origin goods; the case triggered sustained protest activity at Tesco branches across Ireland and Britain, a BDS-organised petition, and union solidarity statements521. Tesco declined substantive public comment, citing a policy against discussing personnel matters, and reinstated the worker in January 2026, reassigning him to a role not requiring handling of Israeli goods62223. This sits within a longer campaign history: a 2009 boycott helpline24, continued civil-society and BDS pressure through the 2010s, and 2025 reporting alleging Tesco “Finest” potatoes marketed as “British” online but labelled “produce of Israel” in-store2526. Separately, Barclays’ acquisition of Tesco’s banking business drew formal Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest and a customer-account-closure campaign citing Barclays’ financing of Israel-arms-linked companies, and objectors raised Barclays-Elbit ties during the High Court Part VII approval process, though Tesco plc itself retains no ownership or financing control over Barclays’ post-completion decisions1229.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Tesco’s own stated position - that, “like all major UK retailers, we sell some products that are sourced from Israel,” consistent with UK government trade policy, with full country-of-origin labelling, and that it “does not source products from Judea and Samaria” - is a genuine, repeatedly issued corporate defence, even though it has not been independently, comprehensively shelf-audited in the sources reviewed26. No public evidence identified of Tesco corporate lobbying, PAC-equivalent donations, or leadership roles in pro-Israel or anti-BDS advocacy organisations. No public evidence identified of Tesco hosting Israeli government officials, holding formal state or academic partnerships, or sponsoring “Brand Israel”-style campaigns. No public evidence identified of Tesco board members with disclosed ties to Israel-Palestine advocacy organisations or settlement-linked donations. By comparison with peer retailer Co-op’s 2025 vote to cease stocking Israeli-sourced goods entirely, Tesco has continued more limited sourcing while stating it does not source from the West Bank specifically545556.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.500.300.500.00
Digital1.000.500.500.01
Economic6.205.506.004.18
Political6.205.006.504.11

The composite score is driven almost entirely by the Economic and Political domains, which capture Tesco’s sustained, documented settlement-adjacent agricultural sourcing and its recurring boycott/labour controversies; both domains score in the moderate-impact, moderate-to-high scale/proximity range reflecting ordinary-course but persistent commercial conduct rather than acute or strategic involvement. Military and Digital are effectively zeroed, reflecting the absence of any defence, security, or military-surveillance nexus. The resulting BRS of 313 (Tier D, Moderate) is computed using scale-free Impact × magnitude/proximity across all four domains, evidence-only and human-vetted.

Methodology Note

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://corporateoccupation.org/2009/02/23/profiting-from-the-occupation-supermarkets-tesco/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israel-tesco-supplier-mehadrin-still-mislabelling-products-from-illegal-settlements-as-produce-of-israel-says-corporate-watch/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. https://corporateoccupation.org/2020/02/13/apartheid-in-the-fields-from-occupied-palestine-to-uk-supermarkets-2020-update-part-7-2-tesco/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tesco-to-stop-selling-dates-from-west-bank/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/24/tesco-israeli-products/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/01/19/tesco-reinstates-worker-suspended-over-israeli-goods-refusal/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://nocamels.com/2019/10/uk-tesco-invests-in-trigo-vision/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  8. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2022/11/1/tesco-opens-second-trigo-powered-autonomous-store-and-preps-two-more ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  9. https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/ps_ohchr_settlement/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  10. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-01/tesco-set-to-announce-gerry-murphy-as-next-chairman-sky-reports ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  12. https://home.barclays/news/press-releases/2024/11/completion-of-the-acquisition-of-tesco-s-retail-banking-business/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  13. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesco-plc-lon-tsco-largely-062913437.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://www.cityam.com/gerry-murphy-who-is-tescos-new-chair/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Murphy_(businessman) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://www.tescoplc.com/media/yocp41on/tesco_factsheets_humanrights.pdf ↩

  17. https://www.tescoplc.com/media/758484/80632v10en-responsible-sourcing-manual-clothing-and-general-merchandise-suppliers.pdf ↩

  18. https://www.retailbankerinternational.com/news/barclays-600m-tesco-bank/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4108 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  20. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/response-by-tesco-tesco-supplier-mehadrin-still-mislabelling-products-from-illegal-settlements-as-produce-of-israel-says-corporate-watch/ ↩ ↩2

  21. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/16/europes-growing-fight-over-israeli-goods-boycott-movements-mushroom ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  22. https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/16/tesco-worker-israeli-products/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://iww.org.uk/news/iww-welcome-victory-for-tesco-worker/ ↩ ↩2

  24. https://www.thejc.com/news/boycott-helpline-at-tesco-ujn50mhl ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/08/19/open-letter-tesco-stocking-israeli/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-876938 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  27. https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2025/07/04/challenge-to-export-of-military-parts-that-might-be-used-by-israel-fails-in-the-high-court/ ↩ ↩2

  28. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Al-Haq-v-Secretary-of-State-for-Business-and-Trade-Approved-Judgment.pdf ↩ ↩2

  29. https://palestinecampaign.org/events/protest-no-to-barclays-buying-tesco-bank/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  30. https://www.thejc.com/news/tesco-withdraws-west-bank-products-fn2uzda1 ↩

  31. https://www.thejc.com/news/product-withdrawal-has-no-link-to-gaza-says-tesco-qfrk28xp ↩

  32. https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-news/tesco-shelves-banning-israeli-products-369366 ↩

  33. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/tesco-backed-checkout-free-tech-company-trigo-secures-100m-investment/672837.article ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  34. https://www.icjpalestine.com/2024/10/30/8-national-supermarkets-threatened-with-legal-action-for-selling-illegal-goods-from-israeli-settlements/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  35. https://www.icjpalestine.com/2024/12/13/as-supermarkets-gear-up-for-christmas-windfall-icjp-calls-on-the-government-to-review-supermarkets-complicity-in-illegal-israeli-settlement-trade/ ↩ ↩2

  36. https://jewishbreakingnews.com/bds-demands-tesco-surrender-to-boycott-pressure-over-israeli-produce/ ↩

  37. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4088 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  38. https://whoprofits.org/companies/company/4149 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  39. https://corporateoccupation.org/2013/04/30/psagot-winery-winning-awards-while-supporting-the-occupation/ ↩

  40. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301786346 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  41. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/281222941 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  42. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩

  43. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩

  44. https://www.newarab.com/news/barclays-increased-financing-israel-linked-arms-firms ↩ ↩2

  45. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/money-finance/barclays-no-longer-holds-shares-elbit-systems ↩ ↩2

  46. https://www.tescoplc.com/tesco-trials-new-crime-reporting-platform-to-deter-retail-crime-and-keep-colleagues-customers-and-local-communities-safe ↩ ↩2

  47. https://www.auror.co/media-center/tesco-trials-auror ↩

  48. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202601/sainsburys-rolls-out-facewatch-lfr-tesco-gets-retrospective-with-auror ↩

  49. https://www.zenithmedia.com/tesco-to-introduce-in-store-facial-recognition-tech-for-advertisers-the-drum ↩

  50. https://www.cio.com/article/648418/aws-opens-tel-aviv-cloud-region-to-invest-7-2b-in-israel-by-2037.html ↩

  51. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus ↩

  52. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/mehadrin/ ↩

  53. https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ckf84jlxkafpd0a79jeoav3xu/the-dismissal-of-the-tesco-litigation ↩

  54. https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2025/06/24/co-op-stop-goods-israel/ ↩ ↩2

  55. https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/co-op-to-stop-stocking-israeli-goods-after-pressure-from-activist-members-u5ucbomg ↩ ↩2

  56. https://palestinecampaign.org/press-release-co-op-moves-to-boycott-israeli-goods-in-major-bds-victory/ ↩ ↩2