Does Oreo support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Oreo. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Food & beverage brands · Companies that support Israel

Background

Oreo is a cookie brand of Mondelez International, and no donation, investment, or statement of support for Israel by the Oreo brand itself has been documented. The viral claim that 'Oreo funds Israel' or the Israeli military — the subject of a documented online boycott phenomenon — is unsubstantiated: no independent fact-checker has corroborated it, and Mondelez is not on the BDS movement's official targeted-boycott list. What is real sits at the parent level and is commercial, not military or governmental: Mondelez's 2019 collaboration with The Kitchen FoodTech incubator owned by Israel's Strauss Group and its seed and follow-on investments in the Israeli startup Torr FoodTech (2020, 2022), documented on the Mondelez page. Oreo products are sold in Israel by the independent local distributor Diplomat Group, not by an Oreo or Mondelez subsidiary. Boycott lists that name Oreo do so because of these parent-level foodtech investments or simply because the parent is American, not because of any action by the Oreo brand.

Wikipedia — Oreo boycott GlobeNewswire (Mondelez press release on Torr) Diplomat Group — Mondelez vendor page (Israeli distributor)

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-29
  No news report attributes a donation, investment, or statement concerning Israel to the Oreo brand; all documented Israel-related activity (The Kitchen partnership, Torr investments) was announced by parent Mondelez, and Oreo is sold in Israel via the independent distributor Diplomat Group.
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-29
  Oreo has no charitable foundation of its own; the Mondelez International Foundation (EIN 20-3881590) was reviewed on the parent page — its 990-PF grants show no Israel-linked recipients.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-29
  Oreo is not a separate SEC filer; disclosures fall under Mondelez International (CIK 1103982), whose 'Israel' full-text hits were reviewed on the parent page — third-party shareholder solicitations and bond-prospectus boilerplate, nothing Oreo-specific.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-29
  No Oreo-specific PAC exists (FEC committee search returns none); political activity runs through the Mondelez International, Inc. PAC (C00529073), whose Schedule B disbursements were searched on the parent page for pro-Israel committee recipients with zero results.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-29
  No Snopes/AFP/Reuters fact check substantiates the viral 'Oreo funds Israel' claim; Wikipedia's 'Oreo boycott' article traces the phenomenon to parent Mondelez's foodtech investments, and Arabic-language boycott sites list Oreo mainly because the parent is American. Mondelez is absent from the BDS movement's official targeted-boycott list.

Frequently asked questions

Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-07-29

• Wikipedia — Oreo boycott en.wikipedia.org
• GlobeNewswire (Mondelez press release on Torr) globenewswire.com
• Diplomat Group — Mondelez vendor page (Israeli distributor) diplomat-global.com