G4S announces plans to sell Israeli business
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r51 G4S announces plans to sell Israeli business
We've got an exciting update to share. British security company G4S has responded to a four-year long global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign protesting its role in Israeli prisons and checkpoints by announcing it will sell its Israeli subsidiary in the coming “12 to 24 months.”
This is the direct result of amazing grassroots organising of the BDS movement, which has cost G4S contracts worth millions of dollars.
In recent weeks, UNICEF in Jordan and a major restaurant chain in Colombia became the latest high-profile bodies to end their contracts with G4S following BDS campaigns.
The G4S announcement follows decisions by other big multinationals including Orange, Veolia and CRH to exit the Israeli market following BDS pressure.
As at the height of the international boycott of apartheid South Africa, BDS pressure is making some of the world’s... largest corporations realize that profiting from Israeli apartheid and colonialism is bad for business.
G4S is infamous for breaking pledges to end its participation in Israel’s crimes so our boycott of G4S will remain among the BDS movement’s top priorities until it actually ends its role in Israeli apartheid.
From the US to Palestine, from South Africa to the UK, G4S is deeply involved in racist mass incarceration business. We remain determined to work closely with partners to hold G4S to account for its participation in human rights abuses.
Thank you to each and every one of you who has supported the Stop G4S campaign.
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