The Palestinian Youth Movement’s campaign to Cut Ties with Genocide is a fight against Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies that directly ships military cargo that facilitate Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
This is a strategy for an actual arms embargo, A People’s Arms Embargo. We’re not waiting for a decision from the top to stop the flow of weapons to Israel, but we are demanding from the bottom. The people say: if you don’t do it, WE WILL.
We call for a People’s Arms Embargo NOW!
Maersk Cut Ties with Genocide!
Maersk is one of the most profitable companies on earth, with money soaked in the blood of over 40,000 Palestinian martyrs. It is involved in all aspects of the supply chain of death - bringing military cargo to arms companies for assembly and shipping cargo to Israel from the US.
From September 2023 to September 2024, more than 2,100 shipments carrying military cargo were carried on Maersk commercial ships to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. In the past year, Maersk has shipped millions of pounds (lbs) of military cargo to Israel from the U.S. Our research showed that Maersk has been carrying everything from tactical vehicles to parts for armored tanks and aircraft and artillery systems to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Maersk fulfills part of its Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense by transporting military cargo— one such vehicle supply chain that Maersk supports through shipping and logistics abilities is the Namer Armored Personnel Carrier (APC-MT883), which has been used extensively in the ongoing aggression against Gaza. Another supply chain is that of the Oshkosh Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, with Maersk helping fulfill part of the supply chain related to a $159 million foreign military sale to Israel from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Maersk does not just support the Zionist genocide through outbound shipping of military cargo from the U.S. to Israel. Maersk ships also carry military cargo to arms manufacturers in the US in order for these weapons companies to assemble the weapons that murder our people. Research indicates that Maersk has significant links to the F35 jet program, the jets that are carpet bombing Gaza and Lebanon right now. The wings and aircraft structures of Lockheed Martin's fighter jets are shipped on Maersk liners to the U.S. where these jets are made then sent to terrorize our people.
We also have photos from the occupied West Bank of Maersk cargo containers delivering consumer goods to illegal Israeli settlements. Maersk is essential to not only to every aspect of the weapons industry, but also to the settlement industry in the West Bank.
Logistics companies, with Maersk as the industry’s lead, are the invisible profiteers of weapons manufacturing, making the genocide of Palestinians a reality. Targeting Maersk directly disrupts the flow of military cargo in the supply chain of death used to genocide Palestinians.
The mask is off. The people must demonstrate what the true cost is of supporting genocide.
Though many may not have heard of Maersk before, it is the one in the background making this genocide possible and will continue to reap profits once its over. Maersk's capitalist greed deems the lives of Palestinians disposable as long as it maintains its bottom line.
Maersk must end its contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and stop transporting military cargo that fuel genocide. The Palestinian Youth Movement calls on Maersk to prioritize life over profit, noting that Israel-related business is only a small portion of Maersk’s operations—but is life or death for Palestinians.