Stop Funding Genocide with Your Bank Account and Grocery Bag
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 29 Sep 2025
Francesca Albanese | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service
24 Sep 2025
Francesca Albanese dismantles the illusion that ordinary people are powerless. She shows how our wallets, our banks and our investments make us complicit in the arms industry that profits from Gaza. She urges civil society to shift from development aid to demanding freedom for Palestinians and calls for universities, banks and municipalities to cut ties with Israel just as the world did with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. Accountability begins with us and it must reshape what is bought, what is funded and what is tolerated.
Francesca Albanese is an Italian legal scholar and expert on human rights who serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 1 May 2022, being the first woman to hold the position. Albanese holds a law degree with honors from the University of Pisa and a Master of Laws in human rights from SOAS University of London. She recommended in her first report that UN member states develop a plan to end Israeli occupation and apartheid. After the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Albanese warned that Palestinians in Gaza were at risk of ethnic cleansing. On 26 Mar 2024, she reported to the UN Human Rights Council that Israel’s actions in Gaza amounted to genocide.
JOIN THE BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN TO PROTEST THE ISRAELI BARBARIC GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.
DON’T BUY PRODUCTS WHOSE BARCODE STARTS WITH 729, WHICH INDICATES THAT THEY ARE PRODUCED IN ISRAEL. DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR HUMAN JUSTICE!
Tags: Apartheid, BDS Boycott Divestment Sanctions, Banking, Bankism, Civil Resistance, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Nonviolent Action, Palestine, South Africa, UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees UNRWA, West Bank
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 29 Sep 2025.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Stop Funding Genocide with Your Bank Account and Grocery Bag, is included. Thank you.
If you enjoyed this article, please donate to TMS to join the growing list of TMS Supporters.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 License.
Join the discussion!
We welcome debate and dissent, but personal — ad hominem — attacks (on authors, other users or any individual), abuse and defamatory language will not be tolerated. Nor will we tolerate attempts to deliberately disrupt discussions. We aim to maintain an inviting space to focus on intelligent interactions and debates.