International capitalism is gorging itself on profits from the annihilation of the Palestinian people

Because we are human, unfailingly human, we can no longer bear the destruction, the incessant crash of bombs and the murder of children, women and men in Gaza, day after day, tear after tear.

Because we are human, tirelessly human, we reject all pretexts that would seek to justify the deaths of newborns and children recorded in the collateral damage toll, not of a "conflict", as is repeated from the comfortable armchairs of the complicit West, but of a war of annexation of one country by another.

Because we are human, irresistibly human, we cry out for the right of the Palestinian people to exist, to live, to create, to build their state and their institutions on their land, alongside the Israeli people.

Because we are human, more human than ever, we reject the ongoing inhumanity from the highest echelons of the most powerful states to the studios of the most servile media. The inhumanity that, far from our eyes, leads to the meticulously organized elimination and destruction of a people.

This unleashing of inhumanity against the Palestinians is only possible with the active participation of North American leaders and the implicit support of a coalition of dominant forces within the European Union. This is further evidenced by the joint vote of the right, the far right, and Macronists against the suspension of the association agreements between the European Union and the State of Israel. Yet, the conditions enshrined in Article 2 of this treaty are constantly violated. Even worse, these deputies refused to vote for an amendment requiring France to respect the decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Do they want France to withdraw its signature and join the American and Israeli far right?

Clearly, the brown metastases of Trumpism are spreading very quickly to widely affect the French political body responsible for protecting the dominant.

The reasons for this are clear from the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, presented on July 3 to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Because we are human, politically human, we understand better, with this text, that big international capital opposes human life, the right of peoples to self-determination, and all human rights. Its intensive culture of hatred is proportional to the profits generated by war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. We discover in this report, with disgust, that since the Israeli war offensive on Gaza, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has risen by 179% and accumulated a jackpot of $157.9 billion in market value. No doubt the intersection of big international capital and its "traders" who dance far from the acrid smoke, the thick dust, and the death left behind by American-made bombs, see in this charnel house and this destruction, profits yet to come.

From this point on, we can better understand the hypocrisies contained in every call for peace made by the proxies of capital, who obviously consider the war criminal Netanyahu to be one of their best representatives. Israeli hostages? They don't care.

When we see bulldozers destroying olive trees in the West Bank or destroying a home in Gaza... When we see a bomb fall on a hospital... When we discover the extent of surveillance, particularly at checkpoints and from the watchtowers spying day and night on the separation wall... We must carefully examine the brands of the equipment and the engines of death and destruction in action. They are often manufactured in the United States and Europe to support a colonial economy and a genocidal economy. And to profit from it, profit from it again and again.

Thus, the American Caterpillar, the Korean HD Hyundai, and the Swedish Volvo are participating in the destruction of infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza and in the construction of illegal settlements.

The American arms company Lockheed Martin tested its new F-35 warplane loaded with bombs that were dropped on Palestinians. Francesca Albanese's report estimates that at least 179,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured by this plane and the F-16 bomber. Of course, the two Israeli arms companies, Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, are increasing their profits as Palestinian children die.

The Italian group Leonardo SpA supplies radars and military components. The Danish shipping giant Maersk handles the logistics of sensitive cargo to Israeli ports. Major digital companies provide biometric and electronic surveillance. Far from ethical, they include IBM and NSO with its Pegasus software, alongside Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. The American tech lords use Palestine as a testing ground for their military technologies.

International high finance is injecting funds into companies that are partners in the war and into the Israeli state budget. These funds once again include BlackRock and Vangard, Barclays, Pimco, and the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund GPFG, alongside Axa and BNP Paribas, which, by purchasing Israeli bonds, helped to double the Israeli military budget, support the arms group Elbit Systems, and other companies involved in financing infrastructure in Israeli settlements.

Capitalism is definitively anti-humanism. The principles of morality and law have definitively left it.

We can understand her determination to demand the destruction of the law and all standards, since corporate responsibility is now enshrined in the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights. They must therefore ensure that their activities do not contribute to their violation and take steps to remedy this. Francesca Albanèse rightly pointed out that historical precedents exist, such as the trial of German industrialists at the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Truth and Justice Commission in South Africa.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) warned several months ago of a "real and imminent risk of genocide " and ordered measures to prevent it. These measures have remained a dead letter. The impunity of large corporations cannot continue. Their workers, in all professions, must at least challenge their leaders on the meaning of their work and protest against their participation in war crimes and genocide. All citizens, local and national elected officials, trade unionists, and workers' representatives committed to international law can rely on this official document, the Albanese Report, to act to obtain a total arms embargo, sanctions against the companies and financial institutions involved, and referral to national and international courts for complicity in war crimes. They must also demand investigations to clarify the traceability of material supply chains and financial circuits. The workers, dominated and exploited, do not go to the places of their hard labor to manufacture what will be used to annihilate their fellow human beings while big capital reaps the rewards twice over. Once by extracting surplus value from the exploitation of labor allowing the manufacture of weapons of crime. A second time, by selling these engines of death at exorbitant prices.

Because we are human, in solidarity with human beings, we condemn, we reject, we fight against a system that is starving the people of Gaza while international capitalism becomes obese with its profits generated by crime.

Anything that amplifies and unifies the fight for justice and rights, including that of the workers in the companies, banks, and commercial ports affected by this sinister enterprise, must be encouraged, supported, and cultivated. Because we are human, only human, we reject this barbarism, this negation of civilization where capitalism gorges itself on profit from the annihilation of a people. To liberate Palestine is to liberate ourselves.