{"id":21219,"date":"2025-07-04T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:06:09","slug":"un-expert-calls-on-world-to-end-trade-with-israels-economy-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=21219","title":{"rendered":"UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel\u2019s \u2018economy of genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese\u2019s report names more than 60 companies said to play a role in \u2018sustaining Israel\u2019s settler-colonial project\u2019.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN expert urges countries to cut trade, financial ties with Israe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, has called on countries to cut off all trade and financial ties with Israel, including a full arms embargo, and withdraw international support for what she termed an \u201ceconomy of genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese made the comments in a speech to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday as she presented her latest report, which named\u00a0dozens of companies<\/a>\u00a0she said were involved in supporting Israeli repression and violence towards Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is apocalyptic,\u201d she said. \u201cIsrael is responsible for one of the cruellest genocides in modern history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 57,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the war, now in its 22nd month began, hundreds of thousands have been displaced multiple times, cities and towns have been razed, hospitals and schools targeted, and 85 percent of the besieged and bombarded enclave is now under Israeli military control, according to the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018For some, genocide is profitable\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The report<\/a>, titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, detailed what it described as \u201cthe corporate machinery sustaining Israel\u2019s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report singled out companies, including arms manufacturers, tech giants, heavy machinery companies and financial institutions, for their \u201ccomplicity\u201d in Israel\u2019s repression of Palestinians, from sustaining Israeli expansion on occupied land to enabling the surveillance and killing of Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The report said that while political leaders had been shirking their responsibilities to pressure Israel to halt its bloodshed in Gaza, \u201cfar too many corporate entities have profited from Israel\u2019s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It called on the international community to \u201chold the private sector accountable\u201d for companies\u2019 complicity in Israel\u2019s abuses, by ensuring they faced legal consequences for their involvement in violations of international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a prima facie responsibility on every state and corporate entity to completely abstain from or end their relationships with this economy of occupation,\u201d Albanese said, adding that if the corporate sector had observed proper due diligence, it \u201cwould have disengaged completely and totally from its entanglement with the Israeli economy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to reporters in Geneva after her speech, Albanese said there were companies and individuals \u201cthat have profited from the violence, the killing, the maiming, the destruction in Gaza and other parts of the occupied Palestinian territory\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange had risen at least 200 percent in nearly 21 months of war, amassing more than $220bn in market gains, in stark contrast to the miseries inflicted on Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne people enriched, one people erased,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClearly, for some, genocide is profitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military \u2018backbone\u2019 of the Israeli state<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The UN report described the military-industrial complex as \u201cthe economic backbone\u201d of the Israeli state, saying that Israel\u2019s prolonged occupation and repeated military campaigns had provided testing grounds for cutting-edge military technology, from air defence platforms and drones, to AI-enabled targeting tools and the F-35 fighter jet programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese said that arms companies had turned near-record profits by providing Israel with cutting-edge weaponry to unleash 85,000 tonnes of explosives \u2013 six times the power of Hiroshima \u2013 to devastate Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The F-35 programme is led by United States-based Lockheed Martin, but components are constructed globally, including by Italian manufacturer Leonardo SpA. The report also named Israeli companies Elbit Systems and IAI for their role in developing drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also named Japan\u2019s FANUC Corporation for providing robotic machinery for weapons production lines, as well as shipping companies like Denmark\u2019s A P Moller\u2013Maersk for \u201csustaining a steady flow of US-supplied military equipment\u201d to Israel throughout its war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consumers can \u2018make informed decisions\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Gabriel Elizondo said that the report was impressive in its breadth and depth of research, with 440 citations backing up its claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that the report could potentially be used by prosecutors looking to hold companies accountable for their complicity with Israeli violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But also, he said, it could be used as an important resource for consumers around the world, looking to bring commercial pressure on companies implicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt lists companies because, as Albanese said, she wants everyday citizens to be able to read this report to be able to make informed decisions on what they purchase, what companies they deal with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese had written to each of the 48 companies named in the report to give them the opportunity to respond to the allegations, he said. But only 18 had responded, and \u201conly a small number\u201d of those did so in good faith, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel: Report \u2018groundless\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Albanese\u2019s speech was received with applause from delegates in Geneva, with Ireland\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Noel White, saying that his government was progressing with legislation banning the import of goods from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Albanese\u2019s speech, the Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week, it described Albanese\u2019s report as \u201clegally groundless, defamatory and a flagrant abuse of her office\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza, for which it is under investigation at the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ)<\/a>, and which numerous genocide experts have confirmed Israel is carrying out, citing its right to self-defence following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case, first filed by South Africa at the ICJ in December 2023 and then joined by other countries, accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh said that Israel, along with the US, announced it was boycotting<\/a> the Human Rights Council earlier this year, with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accusing the body of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said Israel had developed \u201calmost a template\u201d to which it responded to reports from the human rights body, attempting to deflect criticism and responding with personal attacks towards Albanese, in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of enmity there, and an attempt to delegitimise resolutions and reports coming out of there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/3\/un-expert-calls-on-world-to-end-trade-with-israels-economy-of-genocide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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