GEEP Overview: Global Energy Embargo for Palestine Campaign
What is GEEP?
GEEP (Global Energy Embargo for Palestine) is a global campaign calling for an immediate and total energy embargo on the Israeli colonial regime. This means stopping the flow of fossil fuels and electricity that sustain Israel’s colonial, apartheid, occupation, and ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
Why Energy?
Israel’s ability to maintain its violent settler-colonial system depends on uninterrupted access to energy:
- Electricity powers surveillance systems, border walls, and colonial settlements.
- Fuel runs military vehicles, tanks, and warplanes.
- Natural gas and coal generate electricity for the entity’s cities and colonies while Palestinian communities are denied basic services.
Palestinians in Gaza are denied fuel and electricity as a tool of collective punishment.
Israel uses energy as a weapon of war — and it must be stopped.
What Are We Demanding?
- Immediate end to all fossil fuel exports to Israel, including coal, oil, and natural gas.
- End to energy sector cooperation with Israeli companies and institutions.
- Divestment from extraction projects that involve Israeli firms or operate in occupied territory.
- Shutdown of ports and logistical infrastructure that facilitate the flow of fuel to the Israeli military and economy.
Why Now?
Over 77 years into the ongoing Nakba, and in the midst of a genocide in Gaza, it is no longer enough to speak of solidarity. States, corporations, and institutions are actively enabling the Israeli regime through energy flows, investment, and silence. An embargo is a clear, material, and urgent step to dismantle that complicity.
Our Strategy
GEEP is not a symbolic campaign. It is designed to be disruptive, material, and strategic:
- Expose and track coal, oil, and gas shipments to Israel.
- Pressure public authorities to cancel contracts and permits.
- Mobilise workers to block fuel infrastructure through direct action.
- Build transnational alliances across port cities, energy sectors, and climate justice movements.
Where We WorkÂ
GEEP operates transnationally, with active partner campaigns in South Africa, Turkey, Colombia, Greece and beyond. We focus on energy-producing states and transit hubs — including coal terminals, oil ports, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals, and shipping lanes.
Who We Work WithÂ
We work with grassroots organisations, labour unions, environmental justice movements, academic researchers, legal experts, Indigenous land defenders, port workers, and Palestine solidarity networks. We are building a decentralised coalition to confront fossil fuel complicity with genocide.
How Can You Support?
- Share and amplify our materials online and offline.
- Pressure your local authorities, trade unions, or institutions to end contracts with Israeli energy firms.
- Mobilise your networks to track, protest, and disrupt the energy flows.
- Host events and teach-ins on energy colonialism in Palestine.
- Donate labour, research, skills, or space to help expand the campaign.
Why This Matters?Â
This campaign is not only about solidarity with Palestinians — it is about confronting the global systems that allow fossil fuel extraction, militarised borders, surveillance, and apartheid to thrive. Energy colonialism is a shared enemy. If we can dismantle it in Palestine, we strike a blow to it everywhere.
More Details
Is an energy embargo realistic?
Yes. Governments and corporations have imposed energy sanctions before — and dockworkers, unions, and campaigners have disrupted fuel shipments through blockades and pressure. It is possible. It has been done. It works.
Isn’t Israel developing renewables?
Israeli apartheid is being greenwashed. Solar panels on stolen land and tech-sector investment in clean energy are meaningless while Palestinians are denied electricity, bombed in hospitals, and cut off from water.
What impact can we really have?
Every fuel shipment blocked, every contract cancelled, every campaign amplified chips away at the regime’s ability to sustain genocide. This is material solidarity. This is how systems fall.
Get Involved
Whether you are a port worker, a student organiser, a researcher, or part of the environmental movement — there is something you could do.
Explore the page for resources, campaign updates, and ways to act.
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The Story
In February 2024
A group of Palestinian organisations initiated a call to action, urging friends, supporters, environmentalists, workers and people of conscience worldwide to take immediate action to disrupt the flow of energy that enables Israel’s genocide.
This network has been established in response to that call as a forum for researchers, community activists, human rights defenders, climate justice advocates, unionists and others to join forces in working towards a common goal: a total global energy embargo against Israel until it ends the genocide and its regime of apartheid and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.
Why an energy embargo for Palestine?
Israel’s colonial, genocidal, and apartheid regime heavily relies on external energy support to maintain its operations.
Oil imports fuels Israel’s military machinery, from tanks, armoured vehicles, and ships to bulldozers and specialized jet fuel, enabling jets to carry out devastating attacks on Gaza. The coal Israel imports supplies its electricity grid, which powers its illegal settlements, arms industry and murderous AI infrastructure. The gas that Israel sells funnels billions into its apartheid system and financing its colonial military.
In response, Palestinians have been calling for a total energy embargo to stop the genocide, and contribute to the achievement of a liberated Palestine. These calls for an energy embargo align with demands from Palestinian trade unions to halt support for Israel’s military apparatus, a movement that has already gained vast global momentum.
Throughout anti-colonial history, energy embargoes—driven by trade unions and popular demand—have effectively pressured regimes across the Middle East and beyond. Today, they represent a powerful tool for enforcing international law and compelling Israel to end its colonial and genocidal regime.
