UN expert says firms ‘profiting’ from ‘genocide’ of Palestinians

UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said “profited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide”, in a report that provoked a furious response from Israel.

Some of the companies named in her report also raised objections.

Albanese presented her report, investigating “the corporate machinery sustaining the Israeli settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians”, to the UN Human Rights…