Target Corporation is one of the largest big-box retailers in the United States, with more than 1,900 stores and a vast global supply network. While it markets itself as progressive and community-centered, its practices tell a different story.
Target sells products from Delta Galil Industries, an Israeli textile company operating factories in illegal West Bank settlements. These facilities profit from land seizures, resource theft, and the exploitation of Palestinian workers under military rule. Beyond Palestine, Target’s private-label goods are produced in countries such as China, Bangladesh, and Vietnam, where labor rights abuses, wage theft, and unsafe conditions are well-documented.
Boycotting Target carries a medium impact. The company is not as directly reliant on Delta Galil as global giants like Nike or Victoria’s Secret, but its retail scale embeds settlement-linked goods into everyday U.S. consumer markets. More broadly, Target’s sourcing model fuels labor exploitation and ecological harm across its supply chains. Its retreat from diversity and equity commitments further illustrates how corporate pledges to justice can be abandoned under political and financial pressure.
Challenging Target through consumer action exposes how a corporation can simultaneously profit from occupation-linked suppliers abroad, systemic inequities at home, and environmentally destructive practices worldwide.