Corporate Occupation is a blog compiling some of the research that Corporate Watchers have been doing in Palestine this year. The blog is regularly updated, so keep your eye on it. It also includes all of Corporate Watch’s previous work on Palestine.
Corporate Watch’s research aims to be a resource for the growing movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid and occupation. For more info on BDS, see bds-movement.net.
Blogs on Corporate Occupation this month:
The Jordan Valley
The Jordan valley, the backbone of the West Bank comprising one third of occupied Palestine, is subject to extreme corporate exploitation by industrial agricultural companies. A captive Palestinian workforce are paid a pittance in unsafe conditions to work for Israeli settlements which have been established on their land.
A number of our blogs have profiled the agricultural companies working in specific settlements:
Mehola - Organic Apartheid | Corporations in Tomer Settlement | Corporations in Tomer Settlement - Part 2 | Agrexco’s new Packing House | Corporations in Gilgal and Netiv Hagdud | Field Produce in the Jordan Valley Veolia, the French multinational, is also working in the valley as a waste collector for the illegal settlements and running a landfill site on stolen Palestinian land: Veolia – Taking out Israel’s Trash Corporate Watch has written several blogs about a partly British-owned company, EDOM UK, which is exporting agricultural goods from the Jordan Valley settlements and exploiting Palestinian workers:
UK Company exporting from the Settlements | Further information about EDOM UK | An Open Letter to Valley Grown Salads Another UK company, Fresh Direct, is sourcing goods from the settlement of Mehola: Produce of Israel – British Company Found in Breach of Labelling Guidelines Companies Providing Consumer Services to the Settlements Hundreds of international companies provide services to Israel’s illegal settlements. Often, as in the case of Western Union’s arrangement with the Israeli post office, these services are provided by default when the companies initiate contracts with Israeli companies. IATA – Supporting Settler Tourism | Western Union: Accepting the Occupation | Evidence of British Company Lee Cooper trading in Ma’ale Adumim Mall Golan Heights The Golan Heights has been occupied by Israel since 1967 and has been unilaterally annexed by Israel. Companies operating here are benefitting from Israel’s seizure of the land by military force. Corporate Watch has profiled the Golan Heights settlements of Merom Golan, El Rom, Katzerin (1 | 2 | 3 | 4), Neot Golan and Bnei Yehuda. One of the companies operating out of the Golan Heights settlements is Beresheet, a fruit export company exporting to the UK (see our blog here). Others are Golan Heights Winery, Elbit and Simmons Bedding (see here). Over the next months, Corporate Watch’s research will focus on Israel’s settlement industrial zones. We have also printed a booklet (download pdf here of some of Corporate Watch’s recent blogs on corporations in Palestine.
Mehola - Organic Apartheid | Corporations in Tomer Settlement | Corporations in Tomer Settlement - Part 2 | Agrexco’s new Packing House | Corporations in Gilgal and Netiv Hagdud | Field Produce in the Jordan Valley Veolia, the French multinational, is also working in the valley as a waste collector for the illegal settlements and running a landfill site on stolen Palestinian land: Veolia – Taking out Israel’s Trash Corporate Watch has written several blogs about a partly British-owned company, EDOM UK, which is exporting agricultural goods from the Jordan Valley settlements and exploiting Palestinian workers:
UK Company exporting from the Settlements | Further information about EDOM UK | An Open Letter to Valley Grown Salads Another UK company, Fresh Direct, is sourcing goods from the settlement of Mehola: Produce of Israel – British Company Found in Breach of Labelling Guidelines Companies Providing Consumer Services to the Settlements Hundreds of international companies provide services to Israel’s illegal settlements. Often, as in the case of Western Union’s arrangement with the Israeli post office, these services are provided by default when the companies initiate contracts with Israeli companies. IATA – Supporting Settler Tourism | Western Union: Accepting the Occupation | Evidence of British Company Lee Cooper trading in Ma’ale Adumim Mall Golan Heights The Golan Heights has been occupied by Israel since 1967 and has been unilaterally annexed by Israel. Companies operating here are benefitting from Israel’s seizure of the land by military force. Corporate Watch has profiled the Golan Heights settlements of Merom Golan, El Rom, Katzerin (1 | 2 | 3 | 4), Neot Golan and Bnei Yehuda. One of the companies operating out of the Golan Heights settlements is Beresheet, a fruit export company exporting to the UK (see our blog here). Others are Golan Heights Winery, Elbit and Simmons Bedding (see here). Over the next months, Corporate Watch’s research will focus on Israel’s settlement industrial zones. We have also printed a booklet (download pdf here of some of Corporate Watch’s recent blogs on corporations in Palestine.