Toolkit: Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine Alliances, strategies and tactics grassroots movements can use to target Eni and Dana Petroleum towards a global energy embargo for Palestine
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This is an activist toolkit designed to provide grassroots movements with the narrative framing, detailed research, and tactical inspiration for targeting energy corporations fuelling and financing the ongoing settler occupation and genocide in Palestine. It focuses on two companies, Dana Petroleum and Eni SpA (Eni). In October 2023, these corporations were awarded gas exploration licences from Israel, despite being in Palestinian maritime waters, recognised under international law. This potential legal violation provides strategic leverage for movements to apply pressure on these corporations, and mobilise transnationally for an energy embargo to end the ongoing genocide and for the liberation of Palestine.
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This toolkit was developed in collaboration with Palestinian organisations and builds on existing work done by other Palestinian organisations against these exploration licenses, found here.
Sections:
- Talking about Energy and Palestine
- Why we target Eni and Dana Petroleum
- How we target Eni and Dana Petroleum
- Learnings from the movement
- Calls to action
1. Talking about Energy and Palestine
The first section of the toolkit explains why energy is a critical site of struggle in Palestinian liberation. We look into why energy supply chains - and by extension their corporate operators - must be disrupted to end systems of genocide and settler colonial occupation. We map the Israeli energy market, explore how it functions to sustain the settler occupation, and provide key messages activists can use.
2. Why we target Eni and Dana Petroleum
The second section situates Eni and Dana Petroleum within Israel’s colonial energy network, exploring why it is important we target these companies and presenting the legal grounds to challenge them.
3. How we target Eni and Dana Petroleum
The third section provides detailed research into the two companies, exposing their global operations in strategic locations and how they can be materially disrupted. We explore Eni’s relationship to the Italian state, the company’s colonial roots, key decision-makers, shareholders and institutional connections. Drawing on local activists’ expertise, we suggest strategies for intervention in four countries: Nigeria, Mozambique, the US, and the UK.
The toolkit then turns to Dana Petroleum, providing a deep-dive into the company’s presence in two of the three countries it operates in: the UK and the Netherlands. We also explore Dana Pteroleum’s connection to South Korea, through its parent company, the South Korean National Oil Company (KNOC).
4. Learnings from the movement
Section four explores Palestinian, indigenous and anti-imperialist movements - past and present. Anti- normalisation campaigns, indigenous disruption, and trade union and labour organising provide tactical inspiration activists can build on today.
5. Calls to action
We finish with calls to action for the wider global movement for Palestinian liberation. We call on comrades in trade unions, anti-imperialist and climate justice movements around the world to take action to divest and disrupt energy companies profiting off the sale of stolen Palestinian resources that are, as we write, fuelling Israel’s ethnic cleansing, apartheid and military campaign of genocide in Palestine.
A NOTE: Each case study was chosen either as a strategic location for disruption and campaigning and/or to highlight a critical partner in our global struggle to liberate Palestine. The toolkit aims to amplify and stand in solidarity with global fights against these corporations, and showcase the global legacies of colonialism and resistance that we can collectively learn from and build on.