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Camden Council Divestment Campaign

December 2024 FOI

FOI 9194

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£83 million - Camden Council Fund invested in 71 complicit companies

Notes:

Investment portfolio from Camden Council, 30 September 2024; CAM 9194

companies identified based on publications including: whoprofits.org, bdsmovement.net, investigate.afsc.org, banktrack.org, etc.

  • £83m of public equity and credit investments in 71 companies complicit with Israeli apartheid and / or Gaza genocide

  • 18 are Israeli companies involved in the development, funding and running of illegal settlements, arms production, surveillance etc.

  • 9 are arms manufacturers including ELBIT (Israel), BAE, Qinetiq, Meggitt (UK), Raytheon, Northrop Grumman (US), etc.

  • Amazon is largest single investment (£24m); it provides cloud computing to Israeli government & military

£2.1bn

£453m

£1.7bn

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Methodology

FOI from December 2024 (CAM 9194) provides detailed breakdown of Camden investment portfolio

International & Israeli firms supplying arms and surveillance systems and other equipment to Israeli government / military

83 identified complicit companies based on multiple research sources

  • whoprofits.org
  • bdsmovement.net
  • investigate.afsc.org
  • banktrack.org, etc.
  • Matching two data bases provides list of 71 complicit companies (out of 83)
  • £82.7m invested in these as of Sep 2024 (£83.3m in Sep 2023)

Investment portfolio from Camden Council, 30 September 2024; CAM 9194; CAM 7836 for Sep 2023 data

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71 complicit investments profiting from Genocide and Apartheid

Companies profiting from and supporting from genocidal war in Gaza

  • Elbit (ISR)
  • Checkpoint (ISR)
  • Nice (ISR)
  • BAE Systems (UK)
  • Qinetiq (UK)
  • Meggitt (UK)
  • Chemring (UK)
  • Rolls Royce (UK)
  • Smiths Group (UK)
  • Leonardo (ITA)
  • Raytheon (USA)
  • Northrop Grumman (USA)
  • Lockheed Martin (USA)
  • Boeing (USA)

Note: companies identified based on publications including: whoprofits.org, bdsmovement.net, investigate.afsc.org, banktrack.org, etc.

  • Weapons companies supplying arms, munitions, etc.
  • Engineering firms providing demolition, earthmoving equipment, etc
  • Software and tech firms supplying, cloud services, surveillance software etc.
  • International banks funding a.m. activities

Companies profiting from development of illegal settlements

  • Israeli real estate firms
  • Global construction material (cement) providers
  • Banks funding illegal developments

  • Amot (ISR)
  • Mivne Real Estate (ISR)
  • Harel Insurance (ISR)
  • Bank Hapoalim (ISR)
  • Bank Leumi (ISR)
  • Israel Discount Bank (ISR)
  • Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (ISR)
  • Hyundai (S KOR)
  • CEMEX (Mex)
  • Heidelberger Cement (GER)

Companies profiting from business in & with

illegal settlements

  • International firms selling goods/ services linked to illegal settlements
  • Firms providing transport, telecom & infrastructure services
  • Israeli

  • Bezeq (ISR)
  • Altice (ISR)
  • ICL (ISR)
  • Delek (ISR)
  • Shufersal (ISR)
  • Teva (ISR)
  • Strauss Group (ISR)
  • Alstom (FRA)
  • Siemens (GER)
  • Booking.com (NL)
  • Carrefour (FRA)
  • McDonalds (USA)

  • Boeing (USA)
  • Ford (USA)
  • Palantir (USA)
  • Caterpillar (USA)
  • GE (US)
  • Safran (FRA)
  • Amazon
  • Cisco
  • Mitsubishi
  • Barclays
  • HSBC
  • AXA

Examples (not comprehensive list)

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Camden Council Fund invested in 71 complicit companies

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Source: Investment portfolio from Camden Council, 30 September 2024; CAM 9194

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Camden Council Fund invested in 71 complicit companies

Notes:’ Other companies includes 56 individual companies; for a complete list refer to Appendix sides

Source: Investment portfolio from Camden Council, 30 September 2024; CAM 9194

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LBC invested in 71 complicit companies (out of 83)

Companies on PSC list (www.lgpsdivest.org) total 51, 47 of which are included in BDS List of 83; the three not included are Azrieli, eDreams, PUMA and Rockwell Automation with a total of £339k invested by LBC; LBC investments in 51 companies from PSC list total £42.7m

Source: Investment portfolio from Camden Council, 30 September 2024; CAM 9194; CAM 7836 for Sep 2023 data