Photo Source: © Lorenzo Tugnoli
Photo Source: © Lorenzo Tugnoli

Trading with Illegal Settlements: How Foreign States and Corporations Enable Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise

16 September 2025

As humanitarian, development, human rights organisations and faith-based organisations, many with a presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, we witness daily the devastating impact of the settlement economy on the Palestinian communities we work with. Together with Palestinian and Israeli partner organisations, we advocate for an end to the illegal Israeli military occupation and a just and sustainable solution to the conflict, based on the parameters of international law.

We support calls for the European Union, the United Kingdom and others in the international community more broadly to implement laws that ban all trade, including investments and the provision of services, with businesses that are based in or operate from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. We believe that any trade with Israeli settlements legitimises their presence on illegally occupied territory, undermines the viability of a future Palestinian state, and exacerbates the poverty of Palestinians. Without prejudice to the respective positions taken by organisations endorsing this report, this report does not call for a boycott of Israel, or of Israeli corporations not involved in the settlement economy.

The report is produced by the signatory organisations below and has benefited from research contributions by Who Profits Research Center and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS).

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Signatory organisations:

  1. 11.11.11
  2. ACS-NGO
  3. ACT Alliance EU
  4. Act Church of Sweden
  5. Action for Humanity (AFH)
  6. ActionAid International
  7. ACV-CSC
  8. American Friends Service
    Committee
  9. ARCH Jerusalem
  10. Asamblea de Cooperacion
    por la Paz
  11. Association France
    Palestine Solidarité
  12. Associazione ONG Italiane
    (AOI)
  13. Associazione Ricreativa e
    Culturale Italiana (ARCI)
  14. Associazioni Cristiane
    Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI)
  15. Attac Austria
  16. Britain Palestine Project
    (BPP)
  17. Broederlijk Delen
  18. Bank Track
  19. Catholic Agency for Overseas
    Development (CAFOD)
  20. Cairo Institute for Human
    Rights Studies (CIHRS)
  21. Campagna Ponti e non muri –
    PAX CHRISTI Italia
  22. Centro Regionale d’Intervento
    per la Cooperazione (CRIC)
  23. Christian Aid
  24. CNCA
  25. CNCD-11.11.11
  26. Comité pour l’Abolition des
    Dettes Illégitimes (CADTM)
  27. Coopération Internationale
    pour le Développement et la
    Solidarité (CIDSE)
  28. Cooperazione Internazionale
    Sud Sud (CISS)
  29. Corporate Justice Coalition
  30. COSPE
  31. Diakonia
  32. Global Justice Now
  33. ECCP
  34. Embrace the Middle East
  35. Emmaus Italia
  36. European Trade Union Initiative
    For Justice in Palestine (ETUN)
  37. Eurocadres
  38. FairFin
  39. First Social Life
  40. Fondazione Finanza Etica
  41. Fondazione Gruppo Abele
  42. FOS
  43. Global Centre for the
    Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)
  44. International Centre of Justice for
    Palestinians (ICJP)
  45. International Media Support (IMS)
  46. Justice & Peace Scotland
  47. La Centrale Générale-FGTB/De
    Algemene Centrale-ABVV
  48. La Città dell’Utopia
  49. La Commission Justice et Paix
  50. Libera
  51. Ligue des droits de l’homme
    (LDH)
  52. medico international
  53. Middle East Children’s
    Alliance (MECA)
  54. Mouvement contre le
    Racisme et pour l’Amitié
    entre les Peuples (MRAP)
  55. Movimento Giustizia e Pace
    in Medio Oriente
  56. Oxfam
  57. Palestine Economic Policy
    Research Institute (MAS)
  58. PAX
  59. Pax Christi Australia
  60. Pax Christi Germany
  61. Pax Christi International
  62. Pax Christi USA
  63. Plateforme des ONG
    Françaises pour la Palestine
  64. Quakers in Britain
  65. Réseau Euromed France
    (REF)
  66. Rete HUMUS
  67. Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo
    (RIPD)
  68. Sabeel-Kairos UK
  69. Servizio Civile
    Internazionale APS
  70. Solidar
  71. SOLSOC – BE
  72. The Global Legal Action
    Network (GLAN)
  73. The Rights Forum
  74. Trócaire
  75. Un ponte per
  76. UNI Global Union
  77. United Against Inhumanity
    (UAI)
  78. University Centre for
    Development Cooperation
    (UCOS)
  79. Vento di Terra ET
  80. Viva Salud
  81. Vrede vzw
  82. Vredesactie
  83. War on Want
  84. We Social Movements
    (WSM)
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