Over 60 Companies Profit from Palestinian Genocide by Israel, Says UN Rapporteur

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese urged companies to sever ties with Israel. As reported by Middle East Eye on Tuesday, she also called for corporate executives to be held accountable for actions that enable and profit from various crimes, including illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Albanese's call came in a scathing new report where she mentioned over 60 companies, including major technology companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, involved in what she referred to as the  "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide."

"By shedding light on the political economy of an occupation turned genocidal, the report reveals how the forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech . . . while investors and private and public institutions profit freely,"  Albanese wrote in the report.

"Too many influential corporate entities remain inextricably financially bound to Israel’s apartheid and militarism." 

The 24-page report is scheduled to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council this Thursday, July 3. The detailed document identifies dozens of corporate actors, including those involved in the arms, technology, construction, and energy sectors, said to be implicated.

This includes companies the report says are destroying Palestinian lives—weapon companies like Elbit Systems and Lockheed Martin—to heavy equipment manufacturers whose machines are used in building illegal Israeli settlements, such as Caterpillar and HD Hyundai.

Unique Testing Ground

The report also focuses on the historical and contemporary roles of technology companies, which she claimed have profited from a "unique testing ground" in the occupied Palestinian territory. The report underscores how the oppression Palestinians face is becoming "progressively automated."

In October 2023, when Israel's internal military cloud was overburdened, Microsoft Azure and the Project Nimbus Consortium, run by Google and Amazon, "stepped in with critical cloud and AI infrastructure," the report said.

It was stated that 48 of the mentioned companies had been "duly informed of the facts" leading to Albanese making her allegations, 15 of which responded directly to Albanese's office. Their responses were not publicized.

Middle East Eye has requested comments from all the companies mentioned in this article.

Lockheed Martin told MEE that foreign military sales are government-to-government transactions. They stated that the U.S. government is in a position to address questions about the report.

However, these companies are "just the tip of the iceberg," the report said, adding that Albanese's office has developed a database containing a total of 1,000 entities from the submissions received in the request for investigation inputs.

The Israeli mission in Geneva said the report was "legally groundless, defamatory and a flagrant abuse of her (Albanese) office."

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