Investigating Domestic Conduct Fueling War Crimes Abroad

Investigating Domestic Conduct Fueling War Crimes Abroad

In partnership with Palestinian organizations and advocates, ALC is conducting investigations into non-state actors, such as corporations, who are aiding and abetting genocide, apartheid, and war crimes in Palestine. ALC will continue our investigations (that commenced in the fall of 2023) into U.S.-based non-state and corporate actors who are fueling Israel’s crimes against Palestinian people. Additionally, ALC will pursue international and domestic coordination with partners to push out public pressure and advocacy campaigns alongside its investigations.

Microsoft’s Aiding of Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians Exposes Company and its Leadership to Legal Liability

On December 2, 2025 Abolitionist Law Center was joined by an international organization of legal and advocacy rights groups – Avaaz Foundation, European Legal Support Center, Centre for Research on multinational corporations (SOMO), Center for Constitutional Rights, Ekō, and GLAN (Global Legal Action Network) – in providing notice to Microsoft Corporation and its executive leadership of its potential legal liability for aiding and abetting atrocity crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian population of Gaza.

Sent just days before the company’s Annual General Meeting, the letter outlines the intimate relationship between Microsoft and the Israeli military, and the significant role the company has played in advancing, and even accelerating, Israel’s genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people of Gaza. In doing so, Microsoft, its leadership, and its individual officers are exposing themselves to criminal and civil liability for serious violations of international and U.S. domestic law.

Abolitionist Law Center Reports to UN: Amazon and Google Complicit in Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid against Palestinians

On December 3, 2024, the Abolitionist Law Center published its submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, responding to the Special Rapporteur’s call for input on the involvement of the private sector in the commission of international crimes connected to Israel’s genocide, unlawful occupation, racial segregation and apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territory. The submission details the roles of Amazon.com, Inc., and Google LLC, especially each company’s respective cloud division (Amazon Web Services, or AWS, and Google Cloud), in aiding and abetting the Israeli government’s crimes.