{"id":87303,"date":"2026-11-12T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=87303"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:46:11","slug":"87303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=87303","title":{"rendered":"

These are the main war-profiteering corporations cashing in on the Gaza Genocide.<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN Special Rapporteur Issues Report
\nDetailing Corporate Machinery that Profits
\nOff Immiseration of Palestinians<\/h1>\n

By Jeremy Kuzmarov
\nCovert Action Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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Francesca Albanese [Source: aljazeera.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In early July, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, issued a damning report<\/a> detailing how large corporations profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and genocide in Gaza that has taken place since October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

Albanese is an Italian legal scholar and human rights expert who has long been critical of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, and has specified before the UN that Israel is responsible for carrying out a genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General on June 20, 2025, the Trump administration called for Albanese\u2019s removal<\/a> from her current position due to her alleged support for terrorism and anti-Semitism\u2014allegations that are without foundation.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Previously, more than 100 human rights groups came to Albanese\u2019s defense<\/a> after she was subjected to a smear campaign<\/a> by the Israeli government.<\/p>\n

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Among the many dead in Gaza. [Source: tolonews.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Citing a newly published study by Harvard University Press on the corporations that built the British Empire, Albanese begins her report by noting that \u201c[c]olonial endeavours and associated genocides have historically been driven and enabled by the corporate sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese goes on to state that the corporate sector has immeasurably contributed to the Israeli colonization of Palestinian lands and displacement of its population dating to the 1948 Nakba and 1967 Six-Day War (when Israel took control over the West Bank and Gaza) by \u201cproviding Israel with the weapons and machinery required to destroy homes, schools, hospitals, places of leisure and worship, livelihoods and productive assets, such as olive groves and orchards, to segregate and control communities and to restrict access to natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese continues: \u201cBy helping to militarize and incentivize illegal Israeli presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, the corporate sector has contributed to the creation of the conditions for Palestinian ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese identifies Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Lockheed Martin as key weapons suppliers profiting massively off occupation and war that have enabled Israel\u2019s genocide of Gazans.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Demonstrators gather outside Elbit Systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to protest the company\u2019s ties to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on May 15, 2024. Elbit supplies 85% of land-based weaponry used by the IDF. [Source: truthout.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lockheed Martin produces the F-35 and F-16 fighter jets, which \u201chave been integral to equipping Israel with the unprecedented aerial power to drop an estimated 85,000 tons of bombs, much of it unguided, to kill and injure more than 179,411 Palestinians and obliterate Gaza,\u201d according to Albanese.<\/p>\n

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Lockheed Martin F-35. [Source: lockheedmartin.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Damage caused by F-35 bombing runs in Gaza. [Source: edition.cnn.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Albanese goes on to discuss the collaboration between Elbit Systems and the Israeli Defense Ministry and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<\/a> in the development of new drone technologies, including drone swarms, that are used to terrorize Palestinians.<\/p>\n

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MIT professor Emilio Frazzoli and his grad students (from left) Sameera Ponda, Joshua Bialkowski, and Byunghoon Kim in his lab with drone they produced.[Source: web.mit.edu<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shipping companies like the Danish giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, meanwhile, make huge profits shipping weapons to Israel.<\/p>\n

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[Source: maersk.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tech giants provide the computer, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis systems that are used to spy on the Palestinians and help Israel develop more effective social control over them.<\/p>\n

One of the key tech companies, IBM, was deeply complicit in the Nazi Holocaust. Since 2019, it has operated a central database enabling the Israeli governmental use of biometric data on Palestinians, and supporting a discriminatory permit regime.<\/p>\n

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[Source: youtube.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before IBM, Hewlett Packard [now Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)] maintained the database and its Israeli subsidiary is still providing servers to Israel\u2019s military and police so it can better subjugate the Palestinian population.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft, co-founded by Bill Gates, is another tech company whose technologies are embedded in Israeli institutions, and it has major contracts<\/a> with the Israeli military for systematizing its software.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Israel awarded Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Amazon.com, Inc., a $1.2 billion contract (Project Nimbus)\u2014largely funded through the Ministry of Defense\u2014to provide additional core tech infrastructure to Israel. These three companies\u2014Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon\u2014have granted Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, further enhancing its social control capabilities.<\/p>\n

Palantir, a CIA-startup company<\/a> at the cutting edge of new AI technologies, has helped the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) develop artificial intelligence systems such as \u201cLavender,\u201d \u201cGospel\u201d and \u201cWhere\u2019s Daddy?\u201d to process data and generate lists of targets for bombing operations.<\/p>\n

In January 2024, Palantir announced a new strategic partnership with Israel and held a board meeting in Tel Aviv \u201cin solidarity\u201d with it.<\/p>\n

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Albanese goes on to discuss Caterpillar Inc.\u2019s provision of bulldozers and other equipment used to demolish Palestinian homes and infrastructure over decades.<\/p>\n

According to Albanese, Israel has evolved Caterpillar\u2019s D9 bulldozer into automated, remote-commanded core weaponry of the military, deployed in almost every military activity since 2000, clearing incursion lines, \u201cneutralizing\u201d territory and killing Palestinians.<\/p>\n

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Caterpillar bulldozer destroying Palestinian home in West Bank. [Source: prc.org.uk<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hyundai and Volvo have also provided equipment to the IDF that has been used to raze Palestinian areas, including East Jerusalem, and to raze farmland, including olive groves. Additionally, they have supplied equipment used to construct what Albanese terms \u201cillegal colonies\u201d taken over by Israeli settlers for at least 10 years.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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[Source: amnestyusa.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The real estate company Keller Williams\u2019 complicity in Israeli occupation became apparent when it ran a real-estate roadshow in Canada and the U.S. sponsored with companies developing and marketing thousands of apartments for Jewish settlers in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

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[Source: occupiedrenovations.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Alabama-based Drummond Co., whose founder Gary Drummond[4]<\/a><\/sup> was close to Bill Clinton, and the Swiss-based Glencore, founded by another top Clinton donor and felon, Marc Rich[5]<\/a><\/sup>, are Israel\u2019s primary suppliers of coal.<\/p>\n

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[Source: yellowhammernews.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chevron\u2019s consortium supplied more than 70% of Israel\u2019s energy consumption and supplies Israeli refineries that produce jet fuel for IDF planes that bomb Gaza.[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Albanese notes that, \u201cby supplying Israel with coal, gas, oil and fuel, companies are contributing to civilian infrastructures that Israel uses to entrench permanent annexation and now weaponizes in the destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza. The same infrastructure that these companies supply resources into has serviced the Israeli military and its energy-intensive tech-driven obliteration of Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of her report, Albanese discusses the financial industry\u2019s investment in war and occupation-profiteering companies. She points out that the Wall Street behemoth BlackRock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and IBM, and the third largest in Lockheed Martin and Caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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Another Wall Street giant, Vanguard, is the largest institutional investor in Caterpillar, Chevron and Palantir, and the second largest in Lockheed Martin and Elbit Systems.<\/p>\n

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Additional aspects of Albanese\u2019s report discuss the importance of faith-based charities and universities in supporting the infrastructure of military occupation and genocide.<\/p>\n

The latter entities do this in part by erasing the Palestinian perspective from their curricula and by supporting research into weapons systems that are used to kill Palestinians, most egregiously at MIT\u2014Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s alma mater.<\/p>\n

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Pro-Palestine demonstrators face off against police at MIT on May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Source:\u00a0theintercept.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Albanese makes comparisons in her report not only to the British Empire but also Nazi Germany, where the Nuremberg tribunal prosecuted German corporate executives in companies like I.G. Farben that helped influence Hitler\u2019s policies and profited from the genocide of the Jews.<\/p>\n

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I.G. Farben executives on trial at 1947 Nuremberg trials. I.G. Farben was a chemical company that manufactured the Zyklon B gas used at Auschwitz and other concentration camps. [Source:\u00a0encyclopedia.ushmm.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new Nuremberg-style tribunal is needed today to hold corporate executives accountable for their crimes in Gaza and elsewhere around the world.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there is no outside power stronger than either the U.S. or Israel at this time that could stage such a trial and make the perpetrators accountable for their actions.<\/p>\n

Albanese herself calls for sanctions and a full arms embargo on Israel and payment of reparations to Palestinian victims.<\/p>\n

These measures would be welcome although the current power-dynamic in the world makes them unlikely to materialize.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, what is really needed is a mass movement of people committed to socialist transformation.<\/p>\n

U.S. Pouring Hundreds of Millions Into IDF Bases<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As the corporate profiteering and IDF rampage continues, Haaretz<\/em> report<\/a>ed<\/a> based on a review of newly surfaced U.S. Army Corps of Engineers documents that the U.S. is overseeing a sprawling military construction initiative in Israel with projects valued at more than $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Financed through military assistance provided under a $3.8 billion annual aid package agreed to by former President Barack Obama, the upgraded basing network is designed to accommodate the Israel Air Force\u2019s new refueling aircraft and helicopters, a new headquarters for the IDF\u2019s Shayetet 13 naval commando unit, and launching pads for Lockheed F-15 and F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n

Middle East Monitor<\/em> reported<\/a> that despite U.S. officials claiming the aid is for mutual security, the scale of America\u2019s construction projects in Israel \u201cshows something else entirely: deep, long term military entrenchment.\u201d<\/p>\n

One new U.S. funded project at Tei Nof airbase involves construction of expanded runways and building of new hangars to prepare for Israel\u2019s new CH-53K military helicopters. Other projects involve the construction of new piers for the Israeli Navy, building underground bunkers and command centers, expanding weapons storage and renovating housing for U.S military personnel stationed at Israeli bases.<\/p>\n

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IDF helicopter at Tel Nof air base that is being upgraded by the U.S. [Source: abpic.oc.uk<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Middle East Monitor<\/em> said that together these projects \u201cpaint a clear picture: the U.S. isn\u2019t just supporting Israel with weapons\u2014its physically building the infrastructure of Israel\u2019s military power, on Israel soil, with American money.\u201d To the ultimate benefit, one might add, of the \u201cmerchants of death\u201d cited in Albanese\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

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