BP’s pipeline helps fuel the Gaza genocide
JVL Introduction
Energy Embargo for Palestine was formed in 2024 to illuminate and interrupt the energy flows fuelling genocide and ecocide in Gaza. UK based, it has focused on the activities of BP, key to the delivery of crude oil to Israel’s refinery in Ashdod. Its first action in March 2024 was to publicise the complicity of the British Museum in its sponsor BPs role in climate collapse and its facilitation of genocide in Israel. The article traces BPs involvement in establishing oil extraction facilities off the coast of Baku in Azerbaijan then transporting crude as ‘the operator and largest shareholder of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline’. Shipped down the Mediterranean this supplies Israel with oil for its jets and tanks. BP, which grew out of the Anglo Persian Oil Company, has had a continuous stake in the imperial geo-politics of the region.
Azerbaijan will be in the spotlight in November 2024 as the host of COP 29. It will be the focus of global protests not just for mocking efforts to curb the extinction of planetary life, but also for being a major supplier of oil for genocidaires in Israel.
All illustrations are by Heedayah Lockman.
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This article was originally published by Shado-magazine on Mon 9 Sep 2024. Read the original here.
Pipeline to genocide - BP’s oil route to Israel
Energy Embargo for Palestine, an anti-imperialist climate group based in Britain, break down the role of BP and the British state in fuelling the Zionist genocide.
This investigation was carried out between shado and Energy Embargo for Palestine over a 4 month period, made possible thanks to the support of the Guerrilla Foundation.
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Having heard about BP signing contracts with Israel for the Gaza Gas field nearly 3 years ago , I’ve waited & waited to see anything in print about it.. Kudos to JVL for this article..
Outstanding piece of journalism. Definitely going in my files.