Report: Trading with Illegal Settlements – How Foreign States and Corporations Enable Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise (Non-UN Document)

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Report is available in the following languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish

16 September 2025

As humanitarian, development, human rights organisations and faith-based organisations, many with a presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, we witness daily the devastating impact of the settlement economy on the Palestinian communities we work with. Together with Palestinian and Israeli partner organisations, we advocate for an end to the illegal Israeli military occupation and a just and sustainable solution to the conflict, based on the parameters of international law.

We support calls for the European Union, the United Kingdom and others in the international community more broadly to implement laws that ban all trade, including investments and the provision of services, with businesses that are based in or operate from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. We believe that any trade with Israeli settlements legitimises their presence on illegally occupied territory, undermines the viability of a future Palestinian state, and exacerbates the poverty of Palestinians. Without prejudice to the respective positions taken by organisations endorsing this report, this report does not call for a boycott of Israel, or of Israeli corporations not involved in the settlement economy.

The report is produced by the signatory organisations below and has benefited from research contributions by Who Profits Research Center and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS).

Signatory organisations:

1. 11.11.11
2. ACS-NGO
3. ACT Alliance EU
4. Act Church of Sweden
5. Action for Humanity (AFH)
6. ActionAid International
7. ACV-CSC
8. American Friends Service Committee
9. ARCH Jerusalem
10. Asamblea de Cooperacion por la Paz
11. Association France Palestine Solidarité
12. Associazione ONG Italiane (AOI)
13. Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (ARCI)
14. Associazioni Cristiane Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI)
15. Attac Austria
16. Britain Palestine Project (BPP)
17. Broederlijk Delen
18. Bank Track
19. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
20. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
21. Campagna Ponti e non muri – PAX CHRISTI Italia
22. Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione (CRIC)
23. Christian Aid
24. CNCA
25. CNCD-11.11.11
26. Comité pour l’Abolition des Dettes Illégitimes (CADTM)
27. Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité (CIDSE)
28. Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS)
29. Corporate Justice Coalition
30. COSPE
31. Diakonia
32. Global Justice Now
33. ECCP
34. Embrace the Middle East
35. Emmaus Italia
36. European Trade Union Initiative For Justice in Palestine (ETUN)
37. Eurocadres
38. FairFin
39. First Social Life
40. Fondazione Finanza Etica
41. Fondazione Gruppo Abele
42. FOS
43. Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)
44. International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)
45. International Media Support (IMS)
46. Justice & Peace Scotland
47. La Centrale Générale-FGTB/De Algemene Centrale-ABVV
48. La Città dell’Utopia
49. La Commission Justice et Paix
50. Libera
51. Ligue des droits de l’homme (LDH)
52. medico international
53. Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
54. Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP)
55. Movimento Giustizia e Pace in Medio Oriente
56. Oxfam
57. Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)
58. PAX
59. Pax Christi Australia
60. Pax Christi Germany
61. Pax Christi International
62. Pax Christi USA
63. Plateforme des ONG Françaises pour la Palestine
64. Quakers in Britain
65. Réseau Euromed France (REF)
66. Rete HUMUS
67. Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo (RIPD)
68. Sabeel-Kairos UK
69. Servizio Civile Internazionale APS
70. Solidar
71. SOLSOC – BE
72. The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)
73. The Rights Forum
74. Trócaire
75. Un ponte per
76. UNI Global Union
77. United Against Inhumanity (UAI)
78. University Centre for Development Cooperation (UCOS)
79. Vento di Terra ET
80. Viva Salud
81. Vrede vzw
82. Vredesactie
83. War on Want
84. We Social Movements(WSM)