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Spain. Statewide Boycott Campaign Against Teva: “Don’t Let Your Medicines Be Their Bullets,” “Teva? No Thanks!”

Spain. Statewide Boycott Campaign Against Teva: “Don’t Let Your Medicines Be Their Bullets,” “Teva? No Thanks!”
Publicado el 18 de junio.

Do not use Teva. Do not prescribe Teva. Do not sell/dispense Teva. Do not contract with Teva.

 
More than 400 associations, organizations, collectives, and social movements committed to human rights are promoting from March to December 2026 a boycott campaign against the pharmaceutical company Teva as a compromise of solidarity with the Palestinian people and for the end of apartheid, occupation, and genocide in Palestine.
 
They launched this initiative to return to civil society the power that governments have denied it in the face of the Palestinian extermination. Israel is an occupying Zionist entity that is committing genocide in Palestine.
 
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice, and equality. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, it urges action to pressure Israel to respect international law. BDS identifies Teva as one of the priority targets for an economic boycott of Israel. There are numerous contracts for the supply of pharmaceuticals from Teva to healthcare centers in Spain.
 
Teva finances Israel, the regime that carries out occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine. Teva benefits from the illegal occupation, the apartheid system, and the captive market, as it enjoys privileged positions in the pharmaceutical market of the occupied Palestinian territories.
 
Israel controls and limits the import and export of medicines and allows Israeli companies to operate without paying tariffs or facing restrictions at border checkpoints. This allows Teva to widely market its pharmaceutical products in these territories, competing directly and unfairly with other pharmaceutical companies, including Palestinian ones, whose development and growth are, in turn, hindered by Israel.
 
Teva openly supports and collaborates with the genocide being perpetrated by Israel: at least 10% of its workforce in Israel has joined the army, it has donated equipment to the Israel Defense Forces, supports resources to "recover" soldiers from "war trauma," collects supplies for the army at its headquarters, and displays posters in its offices showing support for the army, among other actions supporting the Israeli military.
 
The boycott is a legitimate and historical tool. Boycotting companies that support a regime that perpetrates crimes against humanity is an unavoidable moral, ethical, and legal obligation. This is even more true when a healthcare business like Teva is part of a system that exterminates Palestinians.
 
The boycott is “direct action” to hinder the development and operation of Teva's commercial and social activities.
The boycott works.
The boycott is ethical.
The boycott is legal.
The boycott is legitimate. The boycott is a moral obligation. The boycott is timely. The boycott is proportionate. The boycott is based on solidarity. There are three fundamental ethical arguments for boycotting Teva: 1/ Teva's profits are used to pay taxes in Israel and finance the terrorist activities of its army, 2/ Teva monopolizes the Palestinian market for medicines and imposes exorbitant prices, and 3/ Teva is a corrupt and corrupting company; between 2010 and 2024, Teva paid approximately $11 billion in judgments and fines for proven corruption in courts around the world.
 
Therefore, the organizations supporting the statewide boycott campaign against Teva call on the public to:
 
- Actively request alternatives to Teva, both on prescriptions and at pharmacies. Do not use Teva. 
 
-To healthcare professionals: Do not prescribe Teva when equivalent products exist. Break the chain of complicity from the consultation room. Do not prescribe Teva.
 
-To pharmacies: Do not sell or dispense Teva. Prioritize other laboratories not tainted by Palestinian blood. Do not sell/dispense Teva.
 
-To public administrations, hospitals, and other institutional buyers: Do not choose Teva as a supplier in your public procurement and healthcare tenders. Do not contract with Teva.
 
-To groups, organizations, and social movements: Sign the Teva boycott manifesto as an act of support for the campaign and disseminate it among your groups and in society at large within your spheres of influence.
 
Direct action against Teva. For justice for Palestine, join the Teva boycott campaign. This campaign will be active from March 1 to December 1, 2026.
 
Beyond the Spanish State-Ruled Boycott of Teva
In addition to the boycott of Teva, we must ask ourselves:
 
How long will Teva abuse our patience through the complicity of Spanish administrative and political authorities with its activities in general?
 
How long will it abuse our patience by keeping the Teva factory in Zaragoza and its other facilities in Spain open?
 
How long will Teva products continue to be funded by the National Health System, and how long will its marketing authorizations be maintained?
 
How long will Spanish public authorities continue to fail to analyze the implications of other pharmaceutical and technology companies working in the healthcare sector with the occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine, and to act accordingly? For example, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Lilly, Philips, Palantir, Merck, BMS, Novartis, Google, Telefónica, Sanofi, GSK, and Medtronic. Siemens, Indra, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and other companies that may have participated and continue to participate in supporting the occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine.
 
In addition to the boycott of Teva, we can establish support and solidarity networks with those who are committed, such as the cases mentioned in Cruces, Vallecas, Asturias, Navarra, etc.
 
We can also work with others, such as the magazine "Fair Access to Medicines," the Toledo Medical Association, the Federation of Associations for the Defense of Public Health, etc.
 
Let us not forget: the revolutionary virtue is perseverance. They know that we tire and become exhausted; therefore, we must become tireless and inexhaustible, never remaining silent, because "the deepest trauma is oblivion, it is silence."
 
 
 
 
 
 

In our campaigns, we try to work "from the ground up," as in public health. 1. The highest level, the ideal, almost impossible, is for the Ministry of Health to stop including Teva medicines on the public formulary. 2. Given that the Spanish healthcare system is decentralized across the Autonomous Communities, the next level, where we have had success (Autonomous Communities, Asturias, and Navarre), is for healthcare services to stop purchasing Teva. 3. If we descend to that level, it involves influencing medical associations and healthcare professionals to stop using Teva. 4. The next level, within the community, is the pharmacies. 5. The final level is patients in pharmacies. We believe it is important to have this idea of ​​"levels" so as not to place the entire burden of the boycott on the shoulders of patients in pharmacies.

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