The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the Palestinian-led BDS movement, endorses the growing, organic consumer boycott of Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming service, which directly profits from artist exploitation, systems of mass deportation, apartheid, and genocide.
In October 2025, Spotify users began to hear racist recruitment ads for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the agency continues to terrorize immigrant communities and those in solidarity with them across the country. Though the ICE ads have reportedly expired, Spotify has refused to change its policies, defending the ads as consistent with their company standards.
Later that year, Spotify reportedly ran ads for genocidal Israel’s prison service, recruiting armed units. Under the direct control of racist fanatic Israeli government minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli prisons and detention centers have increased the widespread and systemic use of physical torture, psychological abuse, inhumane detention conditions, and sexual violence against Palestinian political prisoners.
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