Embargo global de energia pela libertação da Palestina
Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine is a culmination of a year of work and collaboration by organisations across the world, with 20+ contributing organisations and researchers. It focuses on two energy corporations, Eni and Dana Petroleum, who are in a consortium awarded 6 gas exploration licenses by Israel on October 29th 2023. The majority of the licensing area (62%) is in Palestine’s Exclusive Economic Zone, which is widely considered an explicit violation of international law.
Fossil fuel supply chains fuel and fund settler colonialism and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Military violence has intensified during the ongoing genocide, but these supply chains have powered slow violence and ethnic cleansing for decades.
Palestinian natural resources and access to fuel is solely controlled by Israel. Palestinians cannot access their subsea gas resources due to heavy, illegal militarisation across the coast. This means electricity to run hospitals and households is mostly controlled by Israel, which cuts it off at will to punish Palestinians.
Palestinians consistently resist this manufactured dependency by creating alternative energy sources, including solar panels in the West Bank and building the Gaza power plant. But both are systematically and routinely destroyed by the Israeli military through bombing and confiscation.
Gas is used to normalise the settler occupation, legitimising Israel as a strategic partner in energy deals and climate policy.
Gas normalisation deals create an economic and energy dependency between Israel and neighbouring states. For example, 98% of Jordanian electricity is powered by resources stolen from historic Palestine.
These deals fuel the war economy. In October 2023, Israel awarded 12 new exploration licences, 6 to a consortium of three energy companies: BP, SOCAR and NewMed, and 6 to a consortium of another three energy companies: Eni, Dana Petroleum and Ratio Petroleum. In total, the bidders paid more than US$15 million in fees for the oil and gas licences. 62% of the total area covered by Eni and Dana Petroleum’s six licences lies inside Palestine’s Exclusive Economic Zone under international law. Leading human rights organisations recognise that these licenses are an explicit violation of international law.
Grassroots movements – divestment and climate campaigners, students and unions together – can organise in solidarity with Palestinians.
This new toolkit offers a deep dive into two companies – Eni and Dana Petroleum – exposing their colonial roots, environmental destruction, and ongoing struggles against their operations in countries across the world. With this data and tactical inspiration, grassroots divestment campaigners, student groups, union organisers and climate campaigners can help block the flow of money and power to Israel.
International, grassroots mobilization against energy supply chains is an ongoing struggle that goes hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo. Disrupting the extraction, production, transportation and financing of fossil fuels is integral to the liberation of Palestine.
This toolkit is an offering to social movements to stimulate and support long-term, strategic conversations about how we can interrupt these global energy supply chains and target their multinational operators.
The toolkit contains:
A narrative guide to talking about energy and Palestine
A deep dive into Eni and Dana Petroleum’s colonial roots, global operations and the ongoing anti-colonial struggles against them, including country specific case studies
Tactical inspiration and learnings from Palestinian, anti-imperialist and climate justice movements, so that movements in the Global North can act in solidarity with people facing the violence of extraction
