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Procter & Gamble POLITICAL

POLITICAL AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-11
Political Score 3.50 /10 D Procter & Gamble - BDS-1000 347
Political 3.50

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Corporate Communications & Public Stance

P&G’s public locations page lists Israel within its Africa & Middle East regional presence and links to a Hebrew-language destination 1.

P&G’s Israel careers page states that P&G Israel has operated as part of the distributor market since 2001, describes P&G brands as present in 98% of Israeli households, and lists an office at 6 Hanechoshet Street, Tel Aviv 2.

The same page describes four active local “Brands on a Mission” programmes and two additional programmes in development, without naming recipients, locations, funding amounts, or conflict-related activity 2.

The reviewed corporate, SEC, supplier-issuer, and local P&G materials did not yield a public P&G statement concerning 7 October 2023, Gaza, Palestinian civilian harm, Israel, or conflict-period relief 1, 2, 3.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of P&G deploying products, logistics, transport, free services, or other corporate assets for Israeli military, state, or state-aligned NGO activity after 7 October 2023 1, 2, 3.

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

P&G’s FY2025 subsidiary exhibit lists P&G Israel M.D.O. Ltd. as an Israel-jurisdiction subsidiary, while explaining that only de minimis entities that are not significant in the aggregate may be omitted from the exhibit 4.

P&G’s FY2021 subsidiary exhibit also listed P&G Israel M.D.O. Ltd., confirming disclosure of that entity in both 2021 and 2025 filings 5, 4.

P&G’s Israel careers page identifies a Tel Aviv office, but the reviewed sources do not establish Israeli manufacturing sites or a specific local activity classification for the subsidiary 2, 4.

Avgol Industries’ 2021 annual report identified P&G as its largest customer, reporting P&G-related revenue of 36.4% of Avgol’s consolidated revenue in 2021, 29.7% in 2020, and 37.3% in 2019 6.

Avgol reported that its commercial relationship with P&G had existed for more than 15 years and that a 2021–2022 agreement had been signed at the end of 2020 6.

Avgol’s 2023 presentation states that it received P&G’s 2022 Supplier Excellence Award for service to P&G’s Baby Care Business Unit 7.

The reviewed primary sources establish a historic P&G–Avgol supplier relationship, but they do not establish that P&G sourced from any particular Avgol facility, including a facility in the Barkan Industrial Area 6, 7.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate, SEC, and supplier-issuer materials of a P&G facility, service contract, dealership, or direct subsidiary operation located in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or an Israeli settlement 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

The supplied document-scoped screening found no P&G mention in the cited UN reports, including the 2025 report on business enterprises involved in settlement activity, but this does not establish database-wide or sector-wide absence 8, 9.

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

P&G’s 2017 proxy reproduced a shareholder proposal requesting implementation of the “Holy Land Principles,” whose proponent asserted that P&G had operations in “Palestine/Israel” 10.

That assertion was the shareholder proponent’s position rather than a P&G admission, and P&G recommended voting against the proposal on the basis that its global policies were already substantially consistent with the proposal’s intent and that a geography-specific policy would duplicate existing efforts 10.

The reviewed materials did not identify a P&G retail, distributor, content, or product policy specifically governing sales in settlements or other occupied or contested territories 1, 2, 3, 10.

P&G Israel states that it received a diversity-and-inclusion advertising and marketing award under the umbrella of Israel’s President, while the cited page does not describe a government procurement contract, state-security partnership, or military-related programme 2.

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

P&G describes its business as founded in Cincinnati in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble, first incorporated in New Jersey in 1890, and incorporated in Ohio in 1905 11.

The founders are historical figures and are not identified in the reviewed sources as current controlling principals 11, 3.

A 2011 Science|Business report stated that P&G signed a master collaboration agreement with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in September 2011, following a December 2010 memorandum of understanding with Israel’s chief scientist 12.

That report stated that the agreement enabled university-wide research collaboration and that P&G had established the Israel House of Innovation in 2007 for partnerships with Israeli entrepreneurs, researchers, and companies 12.

The current research did not locate a current P&G disclosure confirming that the Israel House of Innovation, the 2010–2011 academic arrangements, or a successor Israeli research operation remains active 12.

No public evidence identified in reviewed sources of P&G marketing based on Israeli military heritage, defence-sector ties, or state-security origins 2, 11, 12.

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate, SEC, supplier-issuer, and P&G Israel materials of corporate donations to the IDF, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, JNF/KKL, settlement organisations, reservist funds, or military-welfare bodies 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

No verified primary record was located in the bounded research of P&G lobbying on Israel/Palestine, anti-BDS legislation, or regional trade policy 3, 10.

No verified primary record was located in the bounded research of P&G or an identified P&G principal donating to Israeli military-welfare, settlement, reservist, or comparable political-advocacy bodies 3, 10.

A 2011 student activist webpage alleged that P&G was a major fuel supplier to the Israeli military, but it provided no underlying contract, tender, corporate record, or government source, so the allegation is not treated as established evidence 13.

Singapore’s 2024 terrorism-threat assessment reports that an armed person held seven staff at a P&G factory in north-western Türkiye for about nine hours on 1 February 2024 while demanding a Gaza ceasefire and aid routes 14.

The Singapore government report attributes the conduct and demands to the assailant and does not describe a P&G political statement, donation, or assistance to a conflict party 14.

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

The legal parent is The Procter & Gamble Company, an Ohio corporation with principal executive offices at One Procter & Gamble Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio 3.

P&G’s FY2025 Form 10-K defines “Company,” “P&G,” “we,” “our,” and “us” to include the registrant and its subsidiaries 3.

The company describes itself as a multinational consumer-goods business providing branded consumer products and reporting sales in approximately 180 countries and territories 3.

P&G’s FY2024 Form 10-K identifies the company as a New York Stock Exchange-listed issuer and does not state a founding mandate tied to Israeli state geopolitical goals or infrastructure 15.

P&G’s 2025 proxy listed The Vanguard Group at 9.60% and BlackRock, Inc. at 6.65% of common stock, based on underlying Schedule 13G/A information dated December 2023 16.

Neither disclosed beneficial-owner position in that proxy’s over-five-percent table reached 10% 16.

The proxy reported that directors and executive officers as a group held 0.199% of P&G common stock as of 30 June 2025 16.

Executive & Leadership Footprint

P&G’s current leadership materials identify Shailesh G. Jejurikar as Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and state that he became CEO in January 2026 17, 18.

P&G’s 2026 proxy states that Jejurikar became President and CEO in January 2026 and Chairman effective 1 August 2026 19.

The same filing states that Jon R. Moeller served as Executive Chairman from 1 January 2026 until retiring from the Board on 31 July 2026 19.

P&G’s current board page lists B. Marc Allen, Craig Arnold, Brett Biggs, Sheila Bonini, Amy L. Chang, Shailesh Jejurikar, Joseph Jimenez, Christopher Kempczinski, Debra L. Lee, Christine M. McCarthy, Ashley McEvoy, Robert J. Portman, and Rajesh Subramaniam as directors 17.

P&G identifies Robert J. Portman as a former United States Senator and United States Trade Representative 17.

P&G identifies Portman as an independent director since 2023, serving on its Governance & Public Responsibility and Innovation & Technology committees 20.

[pre-2020] On 23 March 2017, Senators Ben Cardin and Rob Portman announced the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, with Portman publicly supporting legislation opposing boycotts intended to isolate Israel; the Senate announcement describes proposed restrictions on international-governmental-organisation boycotts and opposition to the UNHRC database initiative covering businesses beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines 21.

The announcement also states that the proposal did not change United States final-status policy or make a policy statement about settlements; it documents legislative advocacy, not enactment or demonstrated implementation 21.

This is Portman’s documented conduct as a senator in 2017, before his 2023 appointment to P&G’s board; the cited sources do not establish that he acted for P&G, used P&G resources, or that P&G adopted his legislative position 20, 21.

B. Marc Allen’s 2025 proxy biography states that he held senior roles at Boeing, which P&G describes as operating in aerospace, commercial jetliners, and military defence systems 16.

The cited biography does not identify Israel-specific work, IDF-related activity, settlement involvement, donations, advocacy, or investments by Allen 16.

Footnotes

  1. https://us.pg.com/locations/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://www.pgcareers.com/mea/en/locations/israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80424/000008042425000076/pg-20250630.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80424/000008042425000076/fy242510-kexhibit21.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80424/000008042421000100/fy202110-kexhibit21.htm ↩

  6. https://www.avgol.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2021_%D7%93%D7%95%D7%97_%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%99_isa.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://mayafiles.tase.co.il/rpdf/1508001-1509000/P1508302-00.pdf ↩ ↩2

  8. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩

  9. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩

  10. https://s204.q4cdn.com/332108499/files/doc_financials/2017/ar/8c358811-06b7-4a7f-94c6-76595d748be9.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. https://us.pg.com/pg-history/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://sciencebusiness.net/news/75445/Proctor-&-Gamble-signs-master-collaboration-deal-with-the-Hebrew-University ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://www.uvm.edu/~istokes/sjp-uvm/UVM-Investments.htm ↩

  14. https://isomer-user-content.by.gov.sg/155/2da4a47e-8fed-40e2-a48b-7412201f96c8/sttar-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2

  15. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80424/000008042424000083/pg-20240630.htm ↩

  16. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80424/000119312525191749/d875382ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  17. https://us.pg.com/board-of-directors/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://us.pg.com/leadership-team/shailesh-jejurikar/ ↩

  19. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80424/000119312526372211/pg-20260826.htm ↩ ↩2

  20. https://us.pg.com/board-of-directors/robert-portman/ ↩ ↩2

  21. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/release/cardin-portman-roskam-and-vargas-lead-bipartisan-bicameral-bill-to-reject-attempts-to-economically-isolate-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3