Joint report & international campaign launch
Today, a coalition of over 80 humanitarian, development, human rights and faith-based organisations, including CIDSE, launched an international campaign calling for a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
The campaign’s launch marks the release of the joint report, Trading with Illegal Settlements: How Foreign States and Corporations Enable Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise, which documents how multinational corporations and financial institutions— including Barclays, JCB, Siemens, Carrefour, Maersk, Tui, eDreams Odigeo and Opodo—are or have been involved in sustaining Israel’s illegal settlement economy.
The July 2024 International Court of Justice (ICG) ruling makes it clear: continued trade, including services and investments, with illegal Israeli settlements is incompatible with international law. Governments that permit such trade are complicit in sustaining Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise and its unlawful and prolonged occupation.
The campaign reiterates the urgent need for a ban on settlement trade as a mechanism to uphold international law, protect Palestinian livelihoods, halt and reverse Israel’s settlement expansion, and end its unlawful occupation.
Through coordinated efforts, the campaign which will run for the next 18 months, aims to:
- Influence governments to adopt and implement legislation banning trade with illegal settlements.
- Pressure companies to disengage and end trade with settlements.
- Engage the public in direct action and amplify Palestinian voices to shift the narrative on settlements and settlement trade.
- Promote Palestinian goods.
Additional information
New international joint campaign to stop foreign complicity in Israel’s illegal settlement project: Stop Trade with Settlements, Press Release, 15 September 2025. (ES – FR)
CIDSE Contact: Dorien Vanden Boer, Israel & occupied Palestinian Territory Policy Officer, vandenboer(at)cidse.org
Cover photo: A section of the wall and Israeli settlements near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Credits: Lorenzo Tugnoli