Saturday, 5 July 2025

Naming And Shaming Israeli Genocide Enablers

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has published her report into what she calls: 'the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide' and has not held back in naming and shaming the companies that assist and enable Israel in their genocide against the Palestinians and ashamedly 'enable and profiting from crimes including illegal occupation, war crimes, apartheid, forced displacement and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories'.
In the first part she names the companies who provide the technology and weapons to commit the genocide as Lockheed Martin, Leonardo S.p.A, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and FANUC Corporation and points the finger at companies delivering the components, parts, weapons and raw materials as A.P. Moller and Maersk A/S transport.
Providing the technology for Israel for surveillance are IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon.com, Inc and Palantir Technologies Inc.
Providing the heavy machinery for purposes settler and colonial destruction are Caterpillar Inc, Leonardo DRS, HD Hyundai, Volvo, Heidelberg Materials AG, Construcciones Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles and Keller Williams Realty LLC.
Companies accused of helping in the denial of the basics for life are Drummond Company, Inc, Glencore PLC, Chevron Corporation, BP PLC and Paz Retail and Energy Ltd while those trading in the illegal settlements are Bright Food (Group) Co., Ltd, Orbia Advance Corporation, A.P. Moller, Maersk A/S, Booking Holdings Inc. and Airbnb, Inc.
Financial Institutions financing the Genocide by providing loans and buying Israeli Government bonds are BNP Paribas, Barclays, Blackrock, Vanguard, Allianz, AXA, the University of Edinburgh and the Technical University of Munich.
She ends the report by explaining that in her view: 'While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the present report shows why the genocide carried out by Israel continues: because it is lucrative for many.'
She recommends that: 'The corporate sector, including its executives, must be held to account, as a necessary step towards ending the genocide and disassembling the global system of racialized capitalism that underpins it' and sanctions and an arms embargo must be applied to Israel, all trade agreements must be suspended and  corporate entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international law and reparations paid to the Palestinian people along the lines of post-apartheid South Africa.
She also urges the International Criminal Court and national judiciaries to: 'Investigate and prosecute corporate executives and/or corporate entities for their part in the commission of international crimes and laundering of the proceeds from those crimes.'
You have the report and the names of those enabling the genocide so over to you United Nations.