Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine

This new toolkit is a deep dive into two companies –  Eni and Dana Petroleum. It’s authored by a global coalition of organisers and researchers including Disrupt Power, Global Energy Embargo for Palestine and BDS National Committee and is endorsed by Platform, Transnational Institute and others.

Disrupting the extraction, production, transportation and financing of fossil fuels is integral to the liberation of Palestine. The toolkit exposes Eni and Dana Petroleum’s colonial roots, environmental destruction, and ongoing struggles against their operations in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Netherlands, South Korea, the US and the UK.

Grassroots divestment campaigners, student groups, union organisers and climate campaigners can use the data and tactical inspiration gathered here to disrupt fossil fuel supply chains. We call on movements to use non-violent direct action and shareholder activism to disrupt fossil fuel supply chains.

Why disrupt energy supply chains?

Fossil fuel supply chains fuel and fund settler colonialism and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Military violence has intensified during the ongoing genocide, but these supply chains have powered slow violence and ethnic cleansing for decades. 

Palestinian natural resources and access to fuel is solely controlled by Israel. Palestinians cannot access their subsea gas resources due to heavy, illegal militarisation across the coast. This means electricity to run hospitals and households is mostly controlled by Israel, which cuts it off at will to punish Palestinians.  

Palestinians consistently resist this manufactured dependency by creating alternative energy sources, including solar panels in the West Bank and building the Gaza power plant. But both are systematically and routinely destroyed by the Israeli military through bombing and confiscation.

Gas is used to normalise the settler occupation, legitimising Israel as a strategic partner in energy deals and climate policy.  

Gas normalisation deals create an economic and energy dependency between Israel and neighbouring states. For example, 98% of Jordanian electricity is powered by resources stolen from  historic Palestine.

These deals fuel the war economy. In October 2023, Israel awarded 12 new exploration licences, 6 to a consortium of three energy companies: BP, SOCAR and NewMed, and 6 to a consortium of another three energy companies: Eni, Dana Petroleum and Ratio Petroleum. In total, the bidders paid more than US$15 million in fees for the oil and gas licences.

How to disrupt energy supply chains

International, grassroots mobilization against energy supply chains is an ongoing struggle that goes hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo. Disrupting the extraction, production, transportation and financing of fossil fuels is integral to the liberation of Palestine.

There are many ways to resist. You can:

💸 Divest your pensions

💰 Pressure shareholders & institutions to divest 

🏛️ Picket courts, ports,  factories and HQs 

✊🏾 Organise local events on energy & Palestine

📚 Mobilise on campus & disrupt events

Palestinian workers, unions, students & activists have been at the forefront of the fight to block the fossil fuels powering genocide and settler colonialism. 

We call on climate activists, trade unionists and solidarity campaigners in the Global North to act in solidarity.