{"id":303931,"date":"2025-09-29T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303931"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:36:14","slug":"stop-funding-genocide-with-your-bank-account-and-grocery-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/stop-funding-genocide-with-your-bank-account-and-grocery-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Funding Genocide with Your Bank Account and Grocery Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>24 Sep 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STOP funding genocide with your bank account and grocery bag\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9EI_FB8KtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>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&#8217;s actions in Gaza amounted to genocide. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>JOIN THE BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN TO PROTEST THE ISRAELI BARBARIC GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>DON&#8217;T BUY PRODUCTS WHOSE BARCODE STARTS WITH <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>729, WHICH INDICATES THAT THEY ARE PRODUCED IN ISRAEL. DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR HUMAN JUSTICE!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Sep 2025 &#8211; Francesca Albanese dismantles the illusion that ordinary people are powerless. She urges civil society to demand 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[772,766,3528,928,2394,3395,87,865,88,2414,1243,427,1218,3220,1025],"class_list":["post-303931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-apartheid","tag-banking","tag-bankism","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-civil-resistance","tag-francesca-albanese","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-nonviolent-action","tag-palestine","tag-south-africa","tag-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-unrwa","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303938,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303931\/revisions\/303938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}