Category Archives: Netherlands

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This Who Profits report documents the activities of G4S, the world’s largest private security company in helping Israel to incarcerate Palestinians. Prisoners, including children and political prisoners, have been tortured in G4S facilities and the company also provides services to Israeli police and equipment for settlements and checkpoints. This thorough account of G4S’s deep complicity in Israeli abuse also looks at some of the multinationals activities aborad, notably in the Netherlands.

Dutch Economic Links with the Occupation

Comprehensive 2013 report by a coalition of Dutch peace groups, documenting ties between the Netherlands and Israel. It looks at the economy of the settlements, European Union policies and labelling issues around settlement produce and diplomatic, investment and trade relationships between the two countries. The report also profiles Israeli settlement companies exporting to the Netherlands and Dutch companies owned by or trading with settlement enterprises.

Dutch economic links in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and/or Syrian territories

Wide-ranging 2006 report on economic links between Israel and its settlement enterprise and the Netherlands. The study looks at both agricultural and industrial Dutch imports from the occupied territories, corporate complicity with the occupation and government links to Israel. It also examines key companies as case studies and exposes how the economy of the settlements is enabled by their relationship with the European Union.

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Giant Dutch pension fund divests from Israeli banks

PGGM, the pension fund for millions of Dutch public sector workers, announces that it is divesting from 5 Israeli banks over their role in Israeli crimes.

The decision by PGGM came following increased public campaigning over the role that Israeli banks play in financing Israeli apartheid. PGGM divested from Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, the First International Bank of Israel, the Israel Discount Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank.

All 5 banks have been shown to provide various forms of support to illegal Israeli settlements and Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

ABP, another huge Dutch pension fund, has divested from two Israeli weapons companies.