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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Democracy Now. |
| 0:05.6 | Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Amy Goodman with Nirmine Sheikh. |
| 0:11.3 | We're joined now for part two of our conversation with Francesca Abenazi, the UN Special Rapporteur |
| 0:18.5 | on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, her new landmark report titled |
| 0:23.2 | From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, the Trump administration announced Wednesday |
| 0:29.9 | it's imposing sanctions on her, alleging she's targeting Americans and Israelis for prosecution |
| 0:36.6 | by the International Criminal Court. |
| 0:39.4 | She's joining us now from Slovenia's capital, Lugliana, where she just held a news conference. |
| 0:45.9 | Thank you so much for staying with us, Nermaine. |
| 0:48.5 | So, Francesca, if you could talk about the companies that you name, there are dozens of them, |
| 0:53.9 | of course, you can't list all of them, |
| 0:56.0 | who you say in the report are profiting from Israel's war on Gaza or the expansion of illegal |
| 1:02.0 | settlements in the West Bank. How did you compile this list? What kind of research was involved? |
| 1:08.6 | And also explain. people are raising questions. |
| 1:11.2 | You know, everybody understands why, you know, defense arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin |
| 1:15.7 | is on the list. |
| 1:17.8 | But it might be less clear why, for example, the Korean carmaker, Hyundai or the French |
| 1:23.2 | bank, BNP, Pariband, why are they on the list? |
| 1:27.3 | Just explain the range of companies you're looking at and the extent to which they have |
| 1:33.8 | and in what ways enabled what Israel is doing in Gaza. |
| 1:38.3 | Absolutely, I mean, first of all, I have to say that this situation where economic actors from armed manufacturers to even universities, banks, pension funds, are part of a settler colonial endeavor of taking land and resources from people to the benefit of others is not new. |
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