A groundbreaking UN report names some of the companies enabling — and profiting from — Israel's genocide, occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. These are the BDS consumer boycott targets among them.
Microsoft: “Microsoft has been active in Israel since 1991, developing its largest centre outside the United States. Its technologies are embedded in the prison service, police, universities and schools – including in colonies. Microsoft has been integrating its systems and civilian tech across the Israeli military since 2003, while acquiring Israeli cybersecurity and surveillance start-ups.”
Google/Amazon: “As Israeli apartheid, military and population-control systems generate increasing volumes of data, its reliance on cloud storage and computing has grown. In 2021, Israel awarded Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Amazon.com, Inc. a $1.2 billion contract (Project Nimbus) – largely funded through Ministry of Defense expenditure – to provide core tech infrastructure.”
Chevron: “The United States Chevron Corporation … extracts natural gas from the Leviathan and Tamar fields. … By supplying Israel with coal, gas, oil and fuel, companies are contributing to civilian infrastructures that Israel uses to entrench permanent annexation and now weaponizes in the destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza. The ostensibly civilian nature of such infrastructure does not exonerate a company from responsibility.”
AXA: “Global insurance companies, including Allianz and AXA, also invest large sums in shares and bonds implicated in the occupation and genocide …Their insurance policies also underwrite the risks other companies necessarily take when operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, thus enabling the commission of human rights abuses and ‘de-risking’ the operational environment.”
HP/HPE: “Hewlett Packard (HP) has long enabled the apartheid systems of Israel, supplying technology to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the prison service and police.91 Since the 2015 split of the company into Hewlett Packard Enterprises and HP Inc., opaque business structures have obscured the roles of their seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries.”
Booking/Airbnb: “Booking Holdings Inc. and Airbnb, Inc. list properties and hotel rooms in Israeli colonies. … These listings are linked with restricting Palestinian access to land and endangering nearby villages. … Airbnb briefly delisted illegal colony properties in 2018 but reversed course under pressure, now donating profits to ‘humanitarian’ causes and converting colonial profiteering into humanitarian-washing.”