[News] New campaign planning action against insurance companies with links to Israeli genocide

[Anti-Imperialist News]

thecanary.co
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/13/boycott-bloody-insurance/>
New campaign planning action against insurance companies with links to
genocide
Ed Sykes
March 13, 2025
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A new campaign targeting insurance companies with links to
<https://www.thecanary.co/topics/israel/> Israel’s genocide
<https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/12/19/amnesty-keir-starmer/> in
Gaza launched on 10 March. It is seeking to hold them accountable for their
actions. It’s urging people to ‘boycott bloody insurance’ – and will be
taking direct action as well.
Boycott Bloody Insurance

Boycott Bloody Insurance released <https://boycottbloodyinsurance.org/> a
report
<https://boycottbloodyinsurance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ensuring-Genocide-Report.pdf>
showing how “major global insurers actively enable Israel’s ongoing assault
on Palestinians”. In a press release, it explained that “insurers including
Allianz
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/10/allianz-palestine-action/>,
Aviva
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/11/aviva-palestine-action-protest/>,
AXA, Zurich, and RSA” have been investing “over $1.7 billion in companies
supplying military equipment used by Israel since 7 October 2023”. The
latter include “Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, and BAE Systems”,
which Boycott Bloody Insurance said have a direct link to Israel’s war
crimes
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/11/21/icc-netanyahu-war-crimes-starmer/>,
“including attacks on civilians in Gaza using white phosphorus and
precision-guided munitions”.

Lead researcher Monika Nielsen criticised the insurance companies
“profiting from human suffering” for:

funneling our money into war, exploitation, and violence

This new campaign comes at a time
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/10/met-police-israel/> of
increasing state repression of dissent in Britain on behalf of Israeli war
criminals, and a growing movement of resistance.
Adding to a flourishing movement against complicity in war crimes

Direct action group Palestine Action
<https://www.thecanary.co/topics/palestine-action/> has had numerous
successes against organisations complicit with Israeli war crimes. And
because it has targeted insurance
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/10/allianz-palestine-action/>
companies
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/11/aviva-palestine-action-protest/>
with links to Israel, Allianz and Aviva
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/12/allianz-aviva-palestine-action/>
are now seeking legal action to stop the resistance. Palestine Action has
asserted that its campaign “will not cease until their links with the
Israeli weapons trade” do.

The Palestinian Youth Movement, meanwhile, has now “integrated the finding
that AIG is the insurer of global logistics company Maersk into their
ongoing “Mask Off Maersk” campaign”. The movement insisted
<https://www.maskoffmaersk.com/> it is “not waiting for a decision from the
top to stop the flow of weapons to Israel, but we are demanding from the
bottom”. It is targeting global logistics company Maersk – “one of the most
profitable companies on earth” – for shipping “military cargo that
facilitate Israel’s genocide”. The Palestinian Youth Movement’s Yara Derbas
said:

Insurance, just like logistics, is crucial for arms transfers to oppressive
regimes. Our actions target the corporate complicity enabling Israel’s
ongoing crimes. This isn’t just about Palestine—it’s about global justice
and ending corporate exploitation.

Ahead of Maersk’s Annual General Meeting on March 18, the Palestinian Youth
Movement has called on “executives and shareholders… to end the
transportation of military cargo to Israel”, and has asked

people around the world to join us in showing Maersk that staying in
business with a pariah state is a long-term liability.

A plan for coordinated actions

Boycott Bloody Insurance has the endorsement of the Palestine Solidarity
Campaign, the Watermelon Index, and the Palestinian BDS National Committee.
And it seeks to bring together pro-Palestinian activists with people
fighting for “climate justice, migrant rights, and anti-war organising”.

A Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy spokesperson insisted on the
importance of spreading the word about insurance companies complicit in
genocide, saying:

Policyholders must know how their money is being misused and demand
immediate divestment.

Boycott Bloody Insurance says there is a plan for “coordinated actions
across the UK” on 25 March to encourage organisations to dump insurers
profiting from war crimes and “shift to ethical insurers”.

In April, meanwhile, the campaign will also release “three additional
reports exposing the insurance industry’s ties to fossil fuel companies,
controversial weapons, and the UK detention industry”.

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