HEADQUARTERS
Munich, Germany
publicly traded
NO
operations
Germany; with a presence in Europe, the US and China
OWNED BY
BayernLB Holding AG
Free State of Bavaria (75%) Sparkassenverband Bayern (25%)
subsidiaries
Deutsche Kreditbank
total assets
£220.2 billion (€267.7 billion)
financing overview
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genocide in Gaza
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Palestine occupation
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controversial weapons
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Migrant abuse
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£432,075,000
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£954,400,000
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£799,200,000
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£256,800,000
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One of 20 European creditors that provided loans and underwriting to companies supplying the Israeli military from January 2021 to August 2023
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One of 822 European financial institutions with financial relationships with 58 companies involved with illegal Israeli settlements between January 2021 and August 2024
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One of 287 banks and other financial institutions found to have financed or invested in 24 nuclear weapon producing companies between January 2021 and August 2023
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Bankrolling Airbus
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Company highlights and involvement
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funding
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gaza genocide
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cont. weapons
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PALESTINE OCCUPATION
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MIGRANT ABUSE
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AIRBUS
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£256m
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BOEING
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£46m
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HONEYWELL
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£44m
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ROLLS-ROYCE
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£403m
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AXEL SPRINGER
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£170m
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Weapons Companies bankrolling the Gaza Genocide and Cont. Weapons
Funded: £46m
controversial weapons
gaza genocide
Boeing is not only a global aerospace giant but also a pivotal enabler of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. The company has supplied Israel with vast quantities of advanced weaponry, notably its Joint Direct Attack Munition kits, which convert unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions. These Boeing-manufactured weapons have been linked to numerous deadly attacks on densely populated civilian areas, in what Amnesty International and other human rights organisations have condemned as potential war crimes. Boeing’s Apache attack helicopters and F-15 fighter jets have also played a central role in Israeli military campaigns, further amplifying the scale and lethality of operations in Gaza.
Beyond its role in conventional warfare, Boeing is a key contractor in the U.S. nuclear weapons program, maintaining and supporting the guidance systems for Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are central to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. This dual role—supplying both conventional and nuclear arsenals—places Boeing at the heart of global military-industrial power, with its products implicated in both genocide and the ongoing threat of nuclear escalation.
Case study: Joint Direct Attack Munitions used on Palestinians
- Deir al-Balah, Gaza
- Owner: Boeing
On 10 and 22 October 2023, two Israeli air strikes—using Boeing-manufactured Joint Direct Attack Munitions —killed 43 civilians, including 19 children, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Amnesty International’s forensic analysis confirmed Boeing’s JDAM fragments and manufacturing codes in the rubble of destroyed homes, where survivors reported no prior warning. The attacks, lacking any apparent military objective, obliterated families and left survivors in shock.
US-made weapons facilitated the mass killings of extended families
Funded: £256m
migrant abuse
PALESTINE OCCUPATION
controversial weapons
Airbus SE, headquartered in the Netherlands, is a multinational military and aerospace company that specializes in manufacturing commercial and military aircraft. Between 2008 and July 2024, the U.S. government awarded Airbus over $7.5 billion of contracts, the vast majority of which were held by the Departments of Defense (DHS) and Homeland Security (DHS).
U.S. immigration authority Customs and Border Protection (CBP) uses Airbus helicopters as part of its Air and Marine Operations (AMO) fleet. In 2023 alone, AMO’s enforcement resulted in 1,004 arrests and 89,909 apprehensions of immigrants. According to Airbus, it has provided aircraft for U.S. border enforcement operations since the 1980s.
CBP uses the Airbus AS350 Light Enforcement Helicopter (LEH) for “aerial patrol and surveillance of stationary or moving targets,” particularly in metropolitan areas. These helicopters are equipped with electro-optical (day) and infrared (night) sensors. Airbus has provided CBP with more than 100 helicopters from this series over the years, but started providing CBP with new and improved H125 helicopters, “uniquely configured” for the agency, in 2020. Airbus has described the new model as “one of the most advanced, high-tech law enforcement helicopters ever developed.”
CBP has also used the smaller Airbus EC120 helicopter as a “highly-effective aerial surveillance platform in the border desert areas where terrain can be difficult to traverse on foot.” CBP has frequently used this aircraft to assist ground agents in detecting traces left behind by people crossing the desert.
Airbus has collaborated extensively with Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) and between 2008 and 2021 applied for a UK export license to sell weapons to Israel. IAI and Airbus also have historically collaborated in joint commercial ventures. In 2011, Airbus Military and IAI came together to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and market the C295 platform (a combat aircraft with surveillance systems). In 2018, Airbus signed a $600million deal with IAI to lease Heron TP drones to Germany’s Defence Ministry. These are unmanned drones which have been used in Gaza since October 2023, and have been reportedly deployed by German forces in Afghanistan for ‘a number of years’.
Airbus Defence and Space Airborne Solutions, a 100% subsidiary of Airbus, also partners with IAI to operate maritime aerial surveillance services for the European Border Agency. These drones, previously tested in operations conducted by the Israeli armed forces, are used to intercept migrant vessels crossing the Mediterranean. According to Statewatch, the choice of these drones was determined by their “performance… in the maintenance of public order by the Israeli Defence Forces and police forces”, implicating them in the ongoing enforcement of Israel’s system of colonial occupation and apartheid. Airbus has thus not only profited from – and helped Israel to profit from – the sale of weapons tested on Palestinians, but the company has also enabled Israel to establish itself as a leading provider of defence and commercial technologies on the global stage.
Funded: £45m
gaza genocide
controversial weapons
Honeywell International, a global conglomerate, is deeply entrenched in the machinery of conflict, contributing critical components to Israel’s military operations, particularly implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Its precision-guided munitions have been identified in devastating strikes, including the airstrike on the U.N.-run al-Sardi school on 6th June 2024, which brutally claimed the lives of at least 40 Palestinians, including 14 children.
Beyond its immediate complicity in the Gaza genocide, Honeywell is a linchpin of the US nuclear weapons programme. As the sole manufacturer of critical navigation systems for weapons like the Minuteman III nuclear missile, and a key subcontractor on the Sentinel programme, the company underpins the modernisation of these apocalyptic arsenals. Its subsidiary’s oversight of the Kansas City National Security Campus, responsible for 85% of non-nuclear components for US nuclear weapons, and its operation of the Nevada National Security Site, further highlight its profound connection to instruments of mass destruction.
Funded: £491m
gaza genocide
controversial weapons
Rolls-Royce, the UK’s second-largest arms manufacturer, is deeply entwined with both Britain’s nuclear weapons programme and Israel’s machinery of war in Gaza. Through its German subsidiary MTU, Rolls-Royce supplies the engines powering Israel’s Merkava 4 and 5 tanks, Namer armoured personnel carriers, and Eitan armoured fighting vehicles—hardware extensively deployed during the 2023 ground invasion of Gaza, including in attacks on medical facilities such as Shifa Hospital. These engines are the most significant Merkava component made outside Israel, forming the backbone of armoured assaults that have killed thousands and devastated civilian infrastructure. Rolls-Royce also provides propulsion systems for 80% of the Israeli Navy’s patrol boats, which enforce the illegal and deadly blockade of Gaza.
On the nuclear front, Rolls-Royce holds contracts to supply reactor cores for the UK’s Trident missile submarines, directly supporting Britain’s weapons of mass destruction.
Companies bankrolling the occupation of palestine
Funded: £56m
palestine occupation
Axel Springer SE is a European multinational mass media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company offers printing and publishing of advertisements, digital classifieds portfolio, marketing models and related services. Axel Springer’s operations are segmented into News Media, Classifieds Media, and Marketing Media. The company is organised as a publishing house and is one of the largest mass media publishers in the EU with numerous multimedia news brands, such as Bild, Die Welt, Fakt, and the US political news site Politico.
Springer’s Israeli classified ads website Yad2 — the largest Craigslist-like classifieds site in the country — publishes real estate listings across Israel, including rental apartments and sales in Israeli settlements that are considered illegal under international law. Since its founding in 2005, Yad2 has become Israel’s top online platform for classified ads.
A complaint was filed earlier by the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre on behalf of the Palestinians, the complaint says that Yad2’s facilitation of settlement activity fuels Israeli land grabbing and therefore violates Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. Passed last year, the law requires German companies to identify and mitigate human rights risks within their global supply chains, including in subsidiaries which they control.
Springer enshrines support for Israel in its mission statement, formal internal guidance that the company calls its “essentials.” All of Springer’s subsidiaries and employees are bound to uphold this stance. In October 2023, the firm fired a Lebanese employee who questioned the pro-Israel policy.