A new supply chain mapping project and campaign is seeking to disrupt and target factories, ports, and vessels that are ostensibly connected to the military infrastructure of the State of Israel, with the aim of disarming the IDF.
Yet in addition to targeting Israel-tied facilities, unrelated Western defense firms are also in the crosshairs, and the campaign promotes not only picketing but also sabotage.
The Global Intifada’s “Genocide Supply Chain” map supposedly provides the locations and details of sites and routes for arms equipment to Israel, showing a target bank of ports and routes taken by ships carrying the cargo.
“They’ve all been mapped — the factories, the ports, the movements. So you can find your way in,” Global Intifada said in a Tuesday Instagram post. “This chain is global. So must be our resistance.”
Profiles detail what each site supposedly produces and how it is connected to Israel, with a confidence score for the reliability of information.
'Together, we can disarm the genocidal entity'
One UK-based F-16 drogue parachute manufacturer was listed at a 95% degree of confidence for a connection to Israel because it supposedly was a recipient of the product alongside Greece and Turkey. Other facilities, like those owned by Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems, had obvious connections to the Jewish State’s military industry.
“Together, we can disarm the genocidal entity,” reads a banner on the map.
Yet others, like a Glasgow shipyard, were targeted with a 65% degree of confidence not because they built vessels for Israel, but because they contributed to the “global naval design and technology ecosystem.”
A Washington DC company was listed for providing signal intelligence and cyber expertise to American intelligence and defense agencies, though the map acknowledges there were no known Israeli contracts. The campaign’s concern is that there could be technology transfer from the US to Israel.
The supply chain was the same, supporting every other war, according to a May 26 Instagram post by Global Intifada, describing it as “one single machine” attacking the environment, workers, and indigenous peoples.
The campaign encourages dockworkers to refuse to engage with suspect vessels, activists to form picket lines, but also proposes that supporters join groups like Palestine Action to conduct “direct action” against manufacturers, which often entails vandalism and sabotage raids. An Instagram post advertising the campaign embraced the raids in the style of Palestine Action.
“The western world has turned the word [intifada] into a synonym for terrorism — so you'll look away from the actual violence. They want you to fear it. They want to distract us from the violence done to Palestinians — the house demolitions, the child arrests, the siege of Gaza, the settlement expansion eating the West Bank,” reads the website.
“But intifada means resistance. Not terrorism. Resistance. The same resistance that threw off apartheid in South Africa, that broke colonial rule across the Global South, that every occupied people has exercised as a human right. We need to reclaim the word, honor it, join forces and act now.”
In addition to listing groups, campaigns, and events related to supply chain disruption created by other organizations, Global Intifada also lists organizations involved in Gaza flotillas.
