Francesca Albanese’s report for the United Nations Human Rights Council, titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, makes for stark and dark reading.

Authored by the relentless Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, it proves an unflinching assessment and warning to companies doing business with Israel.

Albanese’s useful investigation examines the corporate world and its links to the settler-colonial program of removing and displacing a pre-existing population.

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State conquest involves not only civilian bureaucracies and high-ranking military commanders, but the corporate sector, eager to make a profit.

“Colonial endeavours and associated genocides,” writes Albanese, “have historically been driven and enabled by the corporate sector. Commercial interests have contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples of their lands — a mode of domination known as ‘colonial racial capitalism’.”

She scrutinises eight private sectors: arms manufacturers; tech firms; building and construction entities; those industries concerned with extraction and services; banks; pension funds; insurers; universities; and charities.

“These entities enable the denial of self-determination and other structural violations in the occupied Palestinian territory, including occupation, annexation and crimes........

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