On 22 July 2026, ELSC brought together organisers, dockworkers and lawyers for Disrupt the Supply Chain of Genocide: Complicity, Legal Action and Worker Resistance. The webinar showed how weapons and military materials move to Israel through European ports, shipping companies, insurers and state approvals, and how legal action, worker organising, public pressure and international coordination are already disrupting that flow.
Speakers
- Juman, BDS National Committee: Block the Boat, the international campaign coordinating action against maritime arms transfers
- Sara Elettra, BDS Italia: how the campaign blocked military steel at Gioia Tauro
- Stefano Cobelli, dockworker and activist, BDS Maritime Transfers Group: organising dockworkers against weapons shipments in Italy
- Lea Kayali, Palestinian Youth Movement, steering committee of Mask Off Maersk: what the Maersk campaign reveals about the maritime supply chain
- Agnese Valenti, Senior Legal Officer, ELSC: the international, EU and Italian law that governs arms and dual-use transfers
- Chaired by Giovanni Fassina, Executive Director, ELSC
Mark your calendar
Dockworkers’ international day of action: 22 October.
Go deeper
- Block the Boat: BDS Movement campaign page
- The MV Kathrin case: live blog
- Law of the Sea obligations to prevent illegal maritime transfers to Israel
- No Harbour for Genocide
- Mask Off Maersk
- Palestinian Youth Movement
- Embargo for Palestine and its Britain page
- South African BDS Coalition, including Fuelling Genocide: An Analysis of South Africa’s Coal Exports to Israel
- Dockworker solidarity in the Mediterranean
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