the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Aug 4, 2025
To anyone who has been paying attention to the death, starvation, and displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza, it might seem surprising that politicians around the world are just now beginning to speak out against the conditions there. One reason they’ve ignored it until now is because the big corporations and banks around the world, many of them here in the United States, profit from the murderous policies Israel is carrying out there.
Some of them were listed in a report from Francesca Albanese, a special reporter for the United Nations. Among them, U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin has a deal worth 3 billion dollars to produce 25 F-35 fighter jets for Israel, on top of the 50 it has already sold them. IBM provides training and equipment the Israeli state uses for the collection of biometric data on Palestinians. Hewlett-Packard supplies technology for Israel’s military, prison system and police.
Microsoft provides specially designed computer systems for the Israeli military, and Google and Amazon have a deal worth 1.2 billion to provide it with technological infrastructure. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is helping Israel to develop military drones. Palantir, headquartered in Denver, has a deal to provide AI platforms to assist the Israeli military in choosing targets in Gaza that don’t involve human oversight.
Albanese mentions Caterpillar, Volvo, and Hyundai as providing heavy machinery to destroy homes, mosques and infrastructure in the Palestinian territories. Banks like BNP Paribas and Barclays have provided Israel with financial backing to make its treasury bonds attractive to investors. And big energy companies like BP and Chevron are reaping profits off the use of pipelines passing through the waters off of the Gaza shore.
Trump’s call for turning an ethnically cleansed Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” earlier this year didn’t come out of nowhere. The Tony Blair Institute, connected with the former British Prime Minister, and the Boston Consulting Group worked together with Israeli businessmen on a plan to develop Gaza into a major trading hub. The plan would be complete with man-made offshore islands, a deep water port and “special economic zones” to allow foreign companies to avoid paying taxes.
The suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza was not the result of politicians in Israel and its imperialist allies in the U.S. and Britain losing their moral compass. Rather, their moral compass points directly to the profits of the wealthy ruling class that they serve.