As a new round of violence kicks off against the people in Gaza and more children are killed, it’s time to take definitive action to end this decades long occupation.

The best way to stop this hellish cycle of Israel confiscating Palestinian lands, daily collective punishment of innocent Palestinian families, and Israel laying siege to and bombing Gaza is to make the economic cost of this conflict too high to bear.

Many of our governments that claim support for Palestine’s freedom have negotiated lucrative deals with companies profiting from the occupation. One is G4S, a British company that provides security services and equipment to Israeli military and police at checkpoints, the Apartheid Wall, and prisons, where children are held, and there are reports of torture. Last year, Saudi Arabia allowed G4S to help manage the annual Hajj Pilgrimage. If enough of us call on the Saudi King now to prevent G4S from operating during Hajj, G4S will take a significant economic hit and may reconsider the cost of working in the oppression of Palestinians.

Preventing our governments from contracting companies that profit from the occupation is one of the most effective ways we can help end it, once and for all. Sign the petition calling on the King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia to kick G4S out until it ends its complicity with the occupation and call on 5 other key banks, pension funds and businesses to pull out.


Israel currently occupies, colonises, bombs, raids, and controls the water, trade and the borders of a legally free nation that has been recognised by the United Nations. In Gaza, Israel has created the largest open-air prison in the world, and then blockaded it. Now as bombs fall, the families, literally have no way to get out.

Many international companies make millions of dollars from the occupation. But our governments are doing deals with these same companies that profit from the subjugation of our friends and families in Palestine! If we all speak out across the region and force our governments cut these contracts, the companies could reconsider the cost of working with the occupation, putting a siege on the occupation, and quickening its end.

Some argue that it will be hard to shift the position of Arab governments. But Saudi Arabia is different.The Hajj is a holy ritual for Muslims around the world, and Saudi leaders are responsible for keeping its sanctity. If millions of us bring attention to this issue and show them that by keeping G4S they are not fulfilling their responsibility, they will have to budge. Saudi Arabia does not need G4S, many companies can replace it.

The Palestinian people have reached out to the Saudi Arabian government to cancel this agreement. Saudi Arabia is one of the most influential countries in the Arab world, and if we succeed with it other countries will follow. Millions of Muslims congregate at Hajj in the spirit of unity. Let’s tell the King that we don’t want this holy rite secured by G4S, and call on 5 other key banks, pension funds and businesses to pull out.