UN knowledgeable calls out world firms for being ‘complicit in genocide and benefiting from occupation’ in Palestine.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur says among the world’s largest firms are complicit in and benefiting from Israel’s actions within the occupied Palestinian territory.
Francesca Albanese’s landmark report recognized Microsoft, Amazon and Google as simply among the main United States tech companies serving to Israel maintain its genocide in Gaza.
However UN stories like this don’t have any authorized energy. And Israel has rejected Albanese’s findings as “groundless”, saying it could “be part of the dustbin of historical past”.
So, will huge firms, regardless of their monetary pursuits, begin to query their ties with Israel?
And can customers world wide carry industrial strain on these implicated companies?
Presenter: Adrian Finighan
Company:
Omar Barghouti – Cofounder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) motion
Vaniya Agrawal – Former software program engineer at Microsoft, who resigned earlier this 12 months
Michael Lynk – Human rights lawyer and a former UN particular rapporteur for human rights within the occupied Palestinian territory