Tag Archives: G4S

Tell G4S to ‘come and see the prisons with their eyes’: Imprisoned without trial for being a member of a political party

Posted on April 26, 2013 by tomandersoncw | Leave a comment

Last week a day of action was held in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. This interview is part of a series of Corporate Watch articles investigating the Israeli prison system.

Suleiman Majid* is a member of the Hamas party in his early forties. Corporate Watch met with him, and with Talib Hasan* who was imprisoned during the same period, in a town in the Northern West Bank to discuss their imprisonment by the Israel state. We discussed the involvement of international companies in providing services to Israeli prisons, particularly G4S. Continue reading →

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Tagged administrative detention, Companies supplying equipment and services to the Israeli prison service, G4S, Megiddo, Ofer, Salem, Shatta

“Are you Palestinian? Are you a little bit Palestinian? They yelled at me”: Experiencing detention in Israel

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Therezia Cooper | 4 Comments

CCTV watches over an Israeli police station in the Israeli occupied West Bank

Palestinians have called for international action on April 17th 2013 in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Corporate Watch has been investigating the companies involved in the Israeli prison system and this article is part of a series of articles and interviews which will be released over the coming weeks focussing on companies providing equipment and services to Israeli jails.

Tom Woodhead is a Palestine solidarity and anti arms trade activist and recently volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine. On March 1st 2013, he was arrested by Israeli border police whilst participating in the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank. Two Palestinians, Belal Jomaa and Nayif Jomaa were also arrested. Tom spent 11 days in detention in Israel before being deported to the UK. Corporate Watch caught up with him to find out about his experiences, and to get more information about companies operating in Israeli detention facilities. Continue reading →

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Posted in 'Security' and Surveillance, Arms Companies, Corporate Watch Research Blogs

Tagged 'Security'/Surveillance, Ariel, Arms Companies, Canon, El Al, G4S, Givon immigration prison, International Companies in Palestine, Qedumin, Samsung, Tri-Max

Guerrilla research exposes sponsors of Israeli apartheid

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Leave a comment

This Corporate Watch op-ed was first published by Electronic Intifada on the 20th of March 2013.

For the last three and a half years the UK-based research cooperative Corporate Watch has been running a project tracking corporate complicity in the occupation of Palestine.

After a research visit to Palestine in 2010, we wrote a handbook for activists who want to take action in line with the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. In January and February this year, we returned to Palestine to find out what was new on the ground.

Much of Corporate Watch’s research has focused on entering Israeli settlements, seeing how they are financially sustaining themselves, what companies are operating or providing services there and how they are facilitating apartheid and colonization. Continue reading →

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Tagged Charities, Companies Working on settlements, G4S, Sodastream

Co-Operative Asset Management confirms it has dropped G4S

Posted on March 22, 2013 by tomandersoncw | Leave a comment

The Co-operative Asset Management, owned by the Co-Ooperative Group, has confirmed that it has ditched its investment in G4S. The Co-Op owned shares in the British-Danish company through the NCH Pumpkin Fund. Andy Hammerton, Public Relations Manager at the Co-Op told Corporate Watch that these had been divested in Summer 2012. Continue reading →

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Tagged 'Security'/Surveillance, divestment, G4S, The Co Op

G4S providing security services in Gilo settlement

Posted on February 11, 2013 by tomandersoncw | 1 Comment

The multinational company G4S is providing security services in the settlement of Gilo.

On the 4th February 2013 Corporate Watch researchers photographed a G4S sign on a building on the road leading to the Gilo military checkpoint.

Gilo is an illegal Israeli settlement in the Bethlehem area with over 40,000 inhabitants.

A G4S sign on a road leading to the Gilo military checkpoint, photo taken by Corporate Watch researchers 04/02/2013

A building bearing a G4S sign on a road leading to the Gilo military checkpoint, photo taken by Corporate Watch researchers 04/02/2013

A view of Gilo settllement

Some of G4S’s other operations in illegal Israeli settlements, uncovered by Corporate Watch, can be found here. Continue reading →

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Tagged 'Security'/Surveillance, British companies working in Israel, British companies working in Israeli settlements, Companies providing service to the settlements, Dansh companies, East Jerusalem, G4S, Gilo, International Companies in Palestine

G4S providing services to settlements in East Jerusalem

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | 1 Comment

On 26th January 2013 Corporate Watch took photos of G4S signs in the East Jerusalem settlement of Ramat Eshkol and Ramot Allon. On 31st January Corporate Watch observed Rapiscan machines at both entrances to the Western Wall compound in East Jerusalem (Rapiscan’s Israeli representative is Hashmira, which is owned by G4S – for more info see here). On 23rd January 2013 researchers photographed a G4S sign on equipment in use at at the Ohel Yitzhak synagogue in the Old City, East Jerusalem.

G4S signage on a fence in the East Jerusalem settlement of Ramat Eshkol

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Tagged 'Security'/Surveillance, Ateret Cohanim, East Jerusalem, G4S, Hashmira, International Companies in Palestine, Old City - Jerusalem, Ramat Eshkol, Ramot, Ramot Allon, Rapiscan, Silwan, Western Wall

G4S expands business in Israel: Prisons, high street stores and migrant detention

Posted on January 20, 2013 by tomandersoncw | Leave a comment

The logo and uniform of British/Danish company G4s is becoming ubiquitous on the Israeli high street.

G4S is the largest security company in the world and the largest employer on the London Stock Exchange, operating in 125 countries worldwide.[1] It provides a variety of services in 1948 Israel and the Occupied Territories including providing security for businesses in illegal Israeli settlements, providing equipment and maintenance services to military checkpoints in the West Bank and the Erez checkpoint in Gaza, providing equipment and maintenance services to all Israeli prisons in the West Bank and Israel.[2]

In 2002 G4S purchased Hashmira, one of Israel’s largest security companies.[3] In addition, in 2010 Hashmira purchased Aminut Moked Artzi, one of the oldest private security companies in Israel.[4] As a result the company is now omnipresent within Israel and has a substantial foothold in the occupied territories. Continue reading →

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Tagged 'Security'/Surveillance, African migrants, Aminut Moked Artzi, Beer Sheva, Companies with contracts with the Israeli government, Erez, G4S, Hashmira, International Companies in Palestine, Ketziot, Prisons, Retail, Russian Compound, Tel Aviv

G4S and the E1 Settlement Expansion

Posted on January 11, 2013 by tomandersoncw | 4 Comments

The Judea and Samaria police force HQ in E1, provided services by G4S

E1 stands for East-1, the area of the Israeli occupied West Bank to the Northeast of Jerusalem to the West of the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. In 1994 Yitzhak Rabin unilaterally expanded the borders of Ma’ale Adumim, the third largest settlement in the West Bank, to include the E1 area, these development plans are illegal under international law. Continue reading →

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Tagged E1, G4S, International Companies in Palestine, Jahalin

Campaigners target corporations complicit in the latest Gaza massacre

Posted on November 23, 2012 by tomandersoncw | Leave a comment

The latest Israeli offensive in Gaza claimed the lives of 162 Palestinians. Four Israeli civilians and one Israeli soldier have also died as a result of retaliatory rocket attacks. During the evening of Wednesday 21 November a ceasefire was reached but the Israeli siege of Gaza continues.

Hundreds of demonstrations have been held worldwide in solidarity with Gaza and a national demonstration is planned in London on Saturday 24 November. Continue reading →

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Tagged Batsheva, Cellcom, Companies Working on settlements, Ecostream, G4S, Sodastream, Telecommunications