Veolia is once again sponsoring the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Please post a (polite) message on the wall of the Natural History Museum’s Facebook Page

or tweet: @NHM_London

and tell them what you think of Veolia’s sponsorship of their Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Veolia, a large French multinational, has helped to build and operate a tramway linking illegal settlements in East Jerusalem with Israel. Not only do the settlements contravene article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention forbidding an occupier transferring its own civilians into the territory it occupies, but in most cases the establishment of the Israeli settlements involves war crimes too. The tramway tightens Israel’s hold on occupied East Jerusalem, ties the settlements more firmly into Israel and undermines chances of a just peace for the Palestinian people.

Tovlan landfill

In the occupied Jordan Valley, Veolia has been supporting illegal settlements by taking their refuse at its Tovlan landfill site. Veolia has now compounded its offence by actually selling Tovlan to an illegal settlement while maintaining an advisory role.

A Veolia-run bus operates in the occupied West Bank. (Anne Paq/ActiveStills)

Veolia also operates bus services connecting illegal Israeli settlements to Israel. Palestinians were, until recently, forbidden from using the apartheid roads on which the buses travel and Palestinian use of these services is still severely restricted.

Veolia must be made to halt these activities which enable Israel to maintain and tighten its grip on the occupation.

 SAY NO TO APARTHEID: BIN VEOLIA!

So until they do, please support this campaign against Veolia – a company complicit in the ongoing occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

For further information of the case against Veolia, visit the Boycott Israeli Goods website.