Take action and sign the petition demanding Maersk Cut Ties with Genocide!
The Palestinian Youth Movement is calling all supporters of Palestine and all people of conscience, all those who have mobilized and organized over the past year, to take action against Maersk and insist that, collectively, we have the power and the duty to stop the flow of military supplies that are killing our people.
For over a year, millions of people across the globe have marched together, halted centers of traffic, shut down bridges, arms factories, and commercial centers, and have made the movement for Palestine absolutely unavoidable. Students across over 200 academic institutions have risen up globally in solidarity with Palestine, bravely demanding their universities divest from the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Internationally, the movement for Palestine is stronger than ever, but Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza have not been stopped and our people continue to be martyred, maimed, and starved. There are companies, institutions, and individuals making decisions that directly allow these horrors to continue.
One year into bearing witness to humanity’s worst atrocities inflicted on the Palestinian people, we are beyond the moment of urgency and we must shift our strategies and tactics. Not only do we have a duty to continue to fight for Palestine, we have the ability to directly confront Zionism in the heart of empire. We must impose a greater cost on the institutions that dare to reap profit off the massacring of our people. We can and must halt the flow of the weapons killing our people, the money fueling the bombings, and the impunity and false legitimacy granted to the Israeli war machine. We must cut ties with Israel through every avenue possible.
Since the start of the genocide, Maersk has shipped tens of thousands of pounds of military goods to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, including completed hulls, engines, or specialized parts for armored personnel carriers and tactical vehicles. Maersk fulfills part of its Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense by transporting weapons and arms components — 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 every aspect of the weapons industry, and to the settlement industry in the West Bank.
Maersk actively facilitates the flow of military goods to Israel to use in its criminal war in Gaza. Without Maersk, this military cargo would not reach Israel. Which means, Maersk guarantees the prompt and consistent supply of massacre and destruction in Gaza.
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 goods in the supply chain of death used to genocide Palestinians.
Maersk is one of the most profitable companies on earth, with money soaked in the blood of over 200,000 Palestinian martyrs. We demand Maersk cut ties with Israel and end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
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.
We must pressure Maersk to end its relationship with Israel, which is a small percentage of their business, but life or death for our people. The mask is off. The people must demonstrate what the true cost is of supporting genocide.