Amnesty International has been told it has "no credibility" on the Occupied Territories, after the organisation said Britain’s leading companies were involved in “Israeli war crimes” if they did business “in or with the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank", including East Jerusalem.
Amnesty UK said it had sent copies of its new 50-page report, Think Twice: Can companies do business with the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories while respecting human rights?, to the chief executives of all companies in the UK’s FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 financial indexes.
It warns them against being “heavily implicated in the perpetuation and expansion of the settlements".
Peter Frankental, Amnesty International UK’s Economic Affairs Programme Director, told companies that “any involvement in the deeply exploitative settlement enterprise" was "bad for the Palestinian people and bad for your company”, warning businesses that continued to operate in the West Bank or East Jerusalem might see their “reputation… tarnished for years to come.
