New research from the “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” coalition exposes how European banks, insurers, and investment firms continue to fund the infrastructure of Israel’s genocide, pouring over $1.5 trillion into companies tied to unlawful practices across occupied Palestine. This comes despite clear rulings from global courts confirming that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide and its presence in Palestinian territories is illegal.
The report’s updated list now includes 10,419 companies, nearly double last year’s figure. Newly added firms such as Amazon, Boeing, and Cellebrite join long-noted actors like Airbnb and Bank Hapoalim. These corporations provide weapons, surveillance tools, logistical support, and settlement services that directly sustain Israel’s military occupation and apartheid system.
On the ground, Palestinians face escalating horrors: relentless bombardment in Gaza, mass displacement, and a surge of settler violence across the West Bank. Israel continues demolishing homes, starving civilians, targeting medical facilities, and eliminating entire neighborhoods actions condemned across international legal frameworks and fundamentally forbidden in Islam, which strictly prohibits oppression, collective punishment, and harm to innocents.
Yet Western states have entrenched themselves deeper in complicity. The United States remains Israel’s strongest backer, shielding it diplomatically and supplying weapons used in documented war crimes. The United Kingdom follows the same path, exporting arms and political cover despite overwhelming evidence of mass atrocities. Their support reveals a collapse of the moral and legal standards they claim to champion.
Equally alarming is the silence or active cooperation of certain Arab governments. Rather than upholding Islamic principles of justice and defense of the oppressed, they pursue normalization deals, economic ties, and political alliances with Tel Aviv. Their inaction stands as a betrayal of the Ummah and a rejection of responsibilities that Islam places upon leadership in moments of tyranny and mass suffering.
Europe’s financial entanglement with Israel deepens regional instability and directly empowers a system designed to erase Palestinian life and identity. By investing in companies that build settlements, engineer surveillance, and supply weaponry, these institutions are not neutral they are financial participants in apartheid and genocide.
The findings leave no room for ambiguity: Israel’s ongoing crimes are not the work of one state alone. They are upheld by Western powers, funded by European institutions, and tolerated by opportunistic regional actors. The future now depends on whether the world chooses accountability and justice or continues enabling a project built on dispossession, brutality, and the destruction of an entire people.
