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BDS and its allies are exposing the companies fueling the genocide in Gaza (wagingnonviolence.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New research is helping anti-genocide activists identify and target the corporations enabling and profiting from the war in Gaza.

In late September, half a dozen activists with the group Voices Against War chained themselves to turnstiles inside the lobby of Chevron’s offices in Herzliya, Israel, just north of Tel Aviv.

International oil and gas companies supply 35 percent of Israel’s crude oil. Among those companies are not only U.S. ones — such as Chevron, which supplies 8 percent of Israel’s crude oil — but others with consumer-facing businesses in the United States, including BP (also 8 percent), ExxonMobil (6 percent) and Shell (5 percent). Chevron, Shell and Exxon all hold stakes in the Caspian Pipeline, which delivers oil from Kazakhstan to Israel via Russia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. And BP holds a stake in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, which delivers oil from Azerbaijan to Israel via Georgia, Turkey and the Mediterranean.

The understanding of such supply chains can aid activists in disrupting them, according to Rowell.

In June, South by Southwest announced that it would be severing partnerships with both the U.S. Army and the weapons manufacturer RTX (better known as Raytheon) after more than 80 performers withdrew from the annual festival in protest, explicitly citing the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Similarly, Human Rights Campaign quietly removed weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman from its list of corporate partners following a protest against the gay rights advocacy organization’s “pinkwashing of the war machine” in February.

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[+] [email protected] -18 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I wish they'd do the same for Russia instead of gargling Putin's balls.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Didn‘t the western governments boycott Russian trade and put heavy sanctions on them? Why should they protest about something that they agree with?

Israel is a terrorist state that isn’t heavily sanctioned by the west, worse yet, supported by the west.

The west has no values unfortunately and it‘s affecting all of us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

And when western companies have traded with Russia anyway, people have been talking about boycotting them.

It works too. It got Coca-Cola to leave Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Why should they protest about something that they agree with?

It's easy to protest something when the government is on your side. And also just pointless virtue signaling.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you know what BDS is? They're an organization and movement with a clear, specific cause. You're barking up the wrong tree here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

You're right, I mistook it for BSW. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I don't suspect there is much Russian goods sold in the U.S.

I remember going to buy alcohol some time in the months after Russia began attacks on Ukraine. The liquor store marked the nation of origin on their vodkas and said they had pulled all Russian ones from the shelves.