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Focus on divestment campaigns: Palestine solidarity: hitting corporations where it hurts
August 28, 2011 in Corporate Watch Newsletter Articles | Tags: Dexia, divestment, Elbit, Pension funds, public tenders, Veolia | Leave a comment
By Michael Deas, European Coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee
Israeli apartheid is big business. Israeli and international arms companies profit not only from supplying the huge Israeli military machine but also by successfully marketing their products, having been used against Palestinians, as ‘battle-tested’. Meanwhile, massive state and private funding for the Israeli settler movement ensures that there is always money to be made from building and providing infrastructure and services to illegal, Jewish-only settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. International companies continue to expand into the Israeli market, despite its persistent violations of international law and subjugation of the indigenous Palestinian population. Read the rest of this entry »