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From the UN report's summary:

'This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory.'

'(...) far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide.'

'The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives.' (my emphasis)

#Palestine #UNReport

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What sort of violations may corporations have committed in Palestine?

Any corporate entity that continued its activities and relationships with 'Israel' may knowingly have contributed to:

  • (a) Violation of the Palestinian right to self-determination;
  • (b) Annexation of Palestinian territory, maintenance of an unlawful occupation and therefore the crime of aggression and associated human rights violations;
  • (c) Crimes of apartheid and genocide;
  • (d) Other ancillary crimes and violations.

according to the UN Special Rapporteur.

#Palestine #UNReport

20. Where corporate entities continue their activities and relationships with Israel – with its economy, military and public and private sectors connected to the occupied Palestinian territory – they may be found to have knowingly contributed to: (a) Violation of the Palestinian right to self-determination; (b) Annexation of Palestinian territory, maintenance of an unlawful occupation and therefore the crime of aggression and associated human rights violations; (c) Crimes of apartheid and genocide; (d) Other ancillary crimes and violations. 21. Both criminal and civil laws in various jurisdictions can be invoked to hold corporate entities or their executives accountable for violations of human rights and/or crimes under international law.
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How are universities and centres of research & learning involved?

Sometimes their contribution is financial and material. (Viz. EU Horizon money channelled to zionist entities; research for weapons and surveillance tools.)

But universities' role is also, especially, ideological. Offering respectability and legitimacy to entities that are in truth neither respectable nor legitimate.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

Universities – centres of intellectual growth and power – have sustained the political ideology underpinning the colonization of Palestinian land, developed weaponry and overlooked or even endorsed systemic violence, while global research collaborations have obscured Palestinian erasure behind a veil of academic neutrality.


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Good old Booking*com gets a mention too, in the section on 'Occupation tourism'.

The UN Special Rapporteur finds that Booking and Airbnb 'profit from the occupation by selling tourism that sustains the colonies, excludes Palestinians, promotes settler narratives and legitimizes annexation.'

Booking is already facing a criminal complaint in the Netherlands on suspicions of money laundering its criminal profits.

#Booking #FreePalestine #UNReport

Occupation tourism 69. Major online travel platforms, used by millions to reserve accommodation, profit from the occupation by selling tourism that sustains the colonies, excludes Palestinians, promotes settler narratives and legitimizes annexation. 70. Booking Holdings Inc. and Airbnb, Inc. list properties and hotel rooms in Israeli colonies. Booking.com has more than doubled its listings in the West Bank – from 26 in 2018233 to 70 by May 2023234 – and tripled its East Jerusalem listings to 39 in the year postOctober 2023.235 Airbnb has also amplified its colonial profiteering, growing from 139 (...)

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Enter: Christenen Voor Israël.

Fracesca Albanese calls out this Dutch group as among the 'key financial enablers of illegal projects' in occupied Palestine.

Funds from Christenen Voor Israël support illegal colonies and train settler paramilitaries, the UN Special Rapporteur finds.

Sounds pretty illegal nah? How come this group is allowed to continue to operate?

#ChristenenVoorIsrael #FreePalestine #UNReport

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Recommendations! The UN Special Rapporteur urges Member States (so, including the Netherlands):

  1. To impose sanctions and a full arms embargo on Israel, including all existing agreements and dual-use items such as technology and civilian heavy machinery; 2. To suspend or prevent all trade agreements and investment relations, and impose sanctions, including asset freezes, on entities and individuals involved in activities that may endanger the Palestinians;
  2. To enforce accountability, ensuring that corporate entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international law.

#UNReport #FreePalestine

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For corporate entities (that includes Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir, Booking, etc.), the UN Special Rapporteur recommends:

  1. To promptly cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked with, contributing to and causing human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people, in accordance with international corporate responsibilities and the law of self-determination;
  2. To pay reparations to the Palestinian people, including in the form of an apartheid wealth tax along the lines of post-apartheid South Africa.

#FreePalestine #UNReport

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