Short answer: As of July 2026, Costco has no warehouses, offices, R&D, or corporate operations in Israel, and the company has issued no public statement supporting or opposing Israel. Its only Israel connection is indirect: Costco stocks consumer products with Israeli ties, most clearly SodaStream carbonation machines (an Israeli company headquartered in Kfar Saba, still manufactured in Israel). Costco also carries Sabra hummus, though Sabra is now a US-made, wholly PepsiCo-owned brand after Israel's Strauss Group sold its 50 percent stake in 2024. Because of products like these, grassroots and regional groups have run local boycott campaigns against Costco, but Costco is not a named priority target of the official BDS movement, and viral "Costco boycotts Israel" or "Costco supports Israel" claims overstate a relationship that is really just ordinary product sourcing.
What the record actually shows
Costco Wholesale Corporation is a membership warehouse-club retailer based in Issaquah, Washington. Its business is overwhelmingly North American, but its international footprint is real: it runs hundreds of warehouses across more than a dozen countries. Israel is simply not one of the markets it has entered.
- No operations on the ground. Costco runs warehouses in countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Spain, France, China, Iceland, Sweden, and New Zealand. There are no Costco warehouses, offices, distribution centers, R&D labs, or acquisitions in Israel (The Times of Israel).
- Israel has asked Costco to come, not the reverse. In February 2023, Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote to Costco's chairman and CEO inviting the retailer to enter the Israeli market to boost competition and lower the cost of living. There is no public record of Costco accepting, and it still has no Israeli operations (The Times of Israel).
- No public position, in either direction. Costco has issued no statement supporting or opposing Israel, and there is no sourced company declaration of neutrality on the subject. The accurate description is an absence of any public stance, not a stated policy.
- The real link is products on the shelf. Costco carries SodaStream carbonation machines. SodaStream is an Israeli company headquartered in Kfar Saba, owned by PepsiCo since 2018, with production still based in Israel (Wikipedia). Costco also stocks Sabra hummus, but Sabra is no longer an Israeli-owned brand: in November 2024 Israel's Strauss Group sold its 50 percent stake in the Sabra joint venture to PepsiCo for about $244 million, making Sabra wholly PepsiCo-owned and US-made (The Times of Israel).
- The SodaStream backstory. SodaStream drew years of controversy because its main plant sat in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank. In 2015 it closed that plant and moved production to Lehavim in the Negev, inside Israel's pre-1967 lines. The company said the move was commercial; BDS activists claimed credit (The Times of Israel).
Where the boycott talk comes from
Searches like "does Costco support Israel" are driven by products on Costco shelves, not by anything Costco itself has said or done. Stocking mainstream, widely distributed consumer brands such as SodaStream and Sabra is ordinary retail sourcing, not a political endorsement.
On the boycott question specifically, Costco is not a named priority or consumer-boycott target of the official BDS National Committee, which focuses on companies like HP, Microsoft, Intel, and Chevron, plus product-level targets such as SodaStream itself (BDS Movement). Sabra is not on the current list: the BDS Sabra boycott effectively ended in 2024, once Strauss Group divested its stake and the brand became wholly PepsiCo-owned and US-made. What exists against Costco is scattered, regional, activist-led pressure. In February 2024 the Canadian BDS Coalition published a call to boycott Costco until it stops selling Medjoul dates and other Israeli-linked products (Canadian BDS Coalition). The following month, about fifteen members of Solidarite Sherbrooke-Palestine protested outside a Costco in Sherbrooke, Quebec, demanding it drop Israeli products (Canadian BDS Coalition).
Those campaigns have not produced any Costco policy change, and Costco has not issued a statement taking a side. Viral boycott lists that place Costco in an anti-Israel or a pro-Israel column are unreliable and overstate a link that is really just product sourcing.
The bottom line
Costco is neutral in the literal sense that it has taken no public position on Israel and has no operations there. For a pro-Israel shopper, though, the practical takeaway is friendlier than the boycott rumors imply: Costco keeps stocking Israeli-made products such as SodaStream, still manufactured in Israel, despite activist pressure to drop them, and it is not an official BDS target. Claims that "Costco boycotts Israel" are false; claims that "Costco supports Israel" overstate what is simply routine sourcing of mainstream brands.
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Is Costco Israeli?
No. Costco is an American company headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, and it operates no warehouses in Israel as of 2026. Its international footprint spans North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, but Israel is not on the list.
The company is not Israeli-owned and has no Israeli operations.
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