Dispatch #172 White Lesbian Age 73 Considers How Israel’s Economy of Genocide and Imperial Colonialism Fuels Global Capitalism and Reveals International Complicity
- Kathleen A. Maloy
- Sep 3
- 4 min read
September 3rd 2025
Day 226 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime
1167 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights
697 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza
The trajectory of the Palestinians’ fate was altered by the 1917 Balfour Declaration whereby Britain, beholden to their own and Europe’s ‘never-in-my-county’ antisemitism, pledged to establish “a national home for Jewish people in Palestine.” The dominance of global capitalism in the 21st Century and the legacy of racist imperial colonialism demand that Palestinians accept their Final Solution Fate. International complicity in the normalization of the Gaza genocide forecasts a grim future where power and profits will determine the value of human beings.
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.│ Francesca Albanese│UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner│16 June 2025.
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide. The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end genocide and dismantle the global system that has allowed it.
Albanese's 'From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide' Report│Ramzy Baroud│Informed Comment│14 July 2025.
Albanese’s new report goes a step further [than UNHRC report in 2020 see end of this Dispatch], this time appealing to the whole of humanity to take a moral stance and to confront those who made the genocide possible. “Commercial endeavors enabling and profiting from the obliteration of innocent people’s lives must cease,” the report declares, pointedly demanding that “corporate entities must refuse to be complicit in human rights violations and international crimes or be held to account.”
According to the report, categories of complicity in the genocide are divided into arms manufacturers, tech firms, building and construction companies, extractive and service industries, banks, pension funds, insurers, universities, and charities.
These include Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir, IBM, and even Danish shipping giant Maersk, among nearly 1,000 other firms. It was their collective technological know-how, machinery, and data collection that allowed Israel to kill, to date, over 57,000 and wound over 134,000 in Gaza, let alone maintain the apartheid regime in the West Bank.
What Albanese’s report tries to do is not merely name and shame Israel’s genocide partners but to tell us, as civil society, that we now have a comprehensive frame of reference that would allow us to make responsible decisions, put pressure on, and hold accountable these corporate giants. “The ongoing genocide has been a profitable venture,” Albanese writes, citing Israel’s massive surge in military spending, estimated at 65 percent from 2023 to 2024 — reaching $46.5 billion. https://www.juancole.com/2025/07/albaneses-occupation-genocide.html
Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Says Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions. The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. | truthout 14 July 2025. https://truthout.org/articles/ex-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-deserves-nobel-prize-not-sanctions/
The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West's Complicity. Dr Steinbock’s highly topical new book The Obliteration Doctrine is about the genocide in Gaza, the West’s complicity and long struggle against genocide prevention. │Informed Comment│15 August 2025.
As the pioneering genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin stressed in 1945, murder is the most direct technique of genocide, but not the only one. Genocide may also “be the slow and scientific murder by mass starvation or the swift but no less scientific murder by mass extermination in gas chambers.” In the case of Gaza, cumulative evidence of mass starvation is abundant, overwhelming and impossible to deny.
With its continued arms transfers, intelligence and diplomatic support, coupled with open support for ethnic cleansing and direct participation in regional escalation, the Trump administration has managed to take the horrors of complicity to an entirely different, deeper and far more destructive level.
Has war profiteering overridden the humanitarian catastrophe? Yes, obviously. Worse, revolving doors prevail between the US administration, the Pentagon and the Big Defense, and their preferred think-tanks, as shown by The Obliteration Doctrine. These generate huge moral hazards and conflicts of interest. Arms transfer fatten the margins of the defense contractors; peace doesn’t.
Who are the beneficiaries of the genocide in Gaza? The US accounts for two thirds for arms transfers to Israel, but Europe – Germany and Italy, the UK and many smaller players – supply the rest. Israel depends on US for arms and Europe for trade. In Gaza, Israel pulled the trigger, but the supply of bullets and arms, financing and intelligence comes from the West. Complicity set the stage for genocide. https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/obliteration-wests-complicity.html
UN publishes list of 112 companies operating in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In February 2020, the UN published a list of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). The list's publication comes after years of delay following a UN Human Rights Council mandate for the creation of such a database back in 2016 and concerted efforts from civil society groups to encourage the listing of these companies publicly.│UNHCR│12 February 2020.
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