A free add-on for your web browser
Highlight BDS colours the names of brands on the BDS boycott lists wherever they appear on the web. Click a coloured name to see whether to boycott it, why, what to buy instead and where to read more.
Free. Works on computers in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave, Opera and Arc, on Android in Firefox, and on iPhone and iPad in Safari.
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What is BDS
BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. In its own words, it is “a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality.”
Boycotts involve “withdrawing support from Israel’s apartheid regime” and from complicit Israeli sporting, cultural and academic institutions.
Divestment campaigns “urge banks, local councils, churches, pension funds, and universities to withdraw investments” from the State of Israel.
Sanctions campaigns “pressure governments to fulfill their legal obligations” to end Israeli apartheid and not aid or assist it.
It began in 2005, when 170 Palestinian unions, refugee networks, women’s organisations and other civil society groups called on people around the world to use “nonviolent pressure on Israel”, inspired by the boycott of South African apartheid.
The call has three demands: ending Israel’s occupation of the land it took in 1967, equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the right of Palestinian refugees to return home.
What is BDS? ↗Independent
Highlight BDS is independent. It is not run by or affiliated with the BDS movement.
How the list is builtWhy it matters
Governments decide on sanctions; shoppers decide where their money goes. BDS asks people to focus on “a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact”, and says pressure has led companies including G4S, Veolia, Orange and Puma to end their involvement. Highlight BDS makes those few names easy to spot while you read and shop.
How it works
Highlight BDS is designed never to interfere with regular browsing.
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It never blocks your clicks. It does not shift the layout or break anything on the page. Links, buttons and text selection work as before.
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It runs locally, on your device, so there is nothing to wait for.
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It runs locally too, so what you read stays on your device.
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Turn it off on a site, ignore a name, or choose which levels to show.
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Click a name to see why it is listed and BDS’s source.
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It checks for an updated list once a week.
Install
Highlight BDS runs inside Tampermonkey, a widely used browser extension (free except on Safari) that runs small scripts, called userscripts, on the pages you visit. You install Tampermonkey once, then add Highlight BDS to it.
Add Tampermonkey from the Chrome Web Store (in Edge, from Edge Add-ons).
Let it run scripts: open your browser’s extensions page (chrome://extensions, or edge://extensions in Edge), click Details under Tampermonkey and turn on Allow User Scripts.
Chrome turns this off for every new extension, and without it nothing happens.
In Chrome before version 138, turn on Developer mode at the top right of the same page instead.
Come back here and click Install the userscript. Tampermonkey opens a page showing the script; click Install.
Open any news or shopping page. Brand names on the list now appear coloured.
Version 146 or later.
Add Tampermonkey from Firefox Add-ons.
Click Install the userscript, then Install in Tampermonkey.
Open any news or shopping page to check.
Mac, iPhone and iPad, Safari 17.2 or later.
Get Tampermonkey from the App Store (a one-off US$2.99, set by its developer).
Turn it on in Safari’s settings under Extensions, and allow it on all websites.
Click Install the userscript, then Install in Tampermonkey.
Tampermonkey will ask to read and change pages on all websites, because the script has to find brand names wherever you read. It reads pages on your device only. What it sends back is in the privacy section below.
The six levels
The levels follow BDS’s own numbering. Levels 1 to 4 are on when you install; 5 and 6 start off.
BDS asks everyone to stop buying this brand completely.
OnShoppers started this boycott, and BDS publicly backs it.
OnBDS is not asking for a full boycott. Switch when a good alternative exists, and tell the company why.
OnBDS publicly backs this boycott, outside its main guide.
OnBDS calls for boycotting all Israeli companies unless they meet two conditions, which it says no Israeli company meets.
OffListed by the UN for business in Israeli settlements. Not a BDS boycott call.
OffThe current list
322
Brands on the list
66
Named by BDS itself
5 November 2026
Read from BDS
Highlight BDS finds and colours brand names on your own device, using a copy of the list kept in your browser. Nothing about the pages you read is ever sent anywhere. Once a week the script fetches the latest list, and that check is counted anonymously. No account, no cookies.
Read the privacy pageThe list comes from BDS’s own website: its boycott guide, campaigns page, statements and its No Tech for Oppression page. Wikidata adds the brands each target owns, and the UN settlements database the companies on Level 6.
How the list is builtThe list updates itself once a week from BDS’s own pages, Wikidata and the UN settlements database. Software reads each page and keeps a finding only when its quote matches the source word for word, so when BDS changes its list, this one follows within about a week.
See what changedLearn more
Reporting and background from the movement itself, UN agencies, human rights organisations and other independent groups.