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July 2025: Disability:IN Conference Paid for by BDS Targets and War Profiteers

The 2025 Disability:IN Global Conference & Expo is this week. It started Monday July 14 and ends on Thursday, July 17.


Disability:IN has corporate sponsors that fund the conference. Sponsors include companies profiting from war, displacement, child labor, environmental destruction, violence, and genocide around the globe. Those same sponsors contributed a lot of money to the 2025 conference. Like a lot.


Disability:IN received $9.3 million in conference sponsorships this year alone.

 

Let's meet the sponsors, shall we?

Conference partners are awarded certain tiers based on how much money they give/sponsor.
Headliners: $175,000
Presenting Partners: $100,000
Influencer: $50,000
Thought Leader: $30,000
Collaborator: $20,000
Connector: $15,000
What orgs are in each tier group?

 

$175,000 Sponsorship: Headlining Displacement: Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo supports Israel and was part of a consortium that gave a $500 million loan deal to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military company, which produces a large range of arms and military surveillance technology. (Source: Breach Media)

Wells Fargo has also funded multiple resource extraction projects such as the Dakota Access Pipeline, which violates tribal sovereignty and the health and well-being of Native people. Wells Fargo is also a corporate backer of Cop City in Atlanta. (Source: AFSC)

 

$100,000 Sponsorship: Presenting Partner in Genocide: Disney+ and Microsoft
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. (Source: BDS)

Disney and its subsidiary Marvel are complicit in glorifying Israel’s regime of genocide and apartheid. Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World and Disney’s Snow White star actors Shira Haas and Gal Gadot, respectively, that have consciously and irrefutably taken up roles as cultural ambassadors for Israel, directly representing genocidal Israel’s propaganda efforts. (Source: BDS)

 

$50,000 Sponsorship: War Influencer: Chevron, Google, Honeywell, and RTX.
Chevron runs natural gas extraction and pipelines off the shore of Palestine/Israel, making it a major partner in Israeli energy apartheid, the military blockade on Gaza, and the illegal exploitation of Palestinian land and resources. (Source: AFSC)

Google: Project Nimbus, the joint $1.22 billion contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021, provides cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence and other technology services to the Israeli government and the Israeli military. (Source: BDS)

One of the world’s top-100 arms-producing companies, Honeywell made about 13% of its revenue from military applications as of 2022. Their munitions were found intact following a June 6, 2024 Israeli airstrike on the UN al-Sardi school in Gaza, killing at least 40 Palestinians. (Source: AFSC)

The world's second largest weapons manufacturer and largest producer of guided missiles, RTX supplies the Israeli Air Force with guided air-to-surface missiles for its F-16 fighter jets, as well as cluster bombs and "bunker buster" bombs. (Source: AFSC)

 

$30,000 Sponsorship: Mass Disablement Thought Leader: Amazon, Dell, HP, and Shell.
Amazon: Part of Project Nimbus with Google. Nimbus offers the platform for the Israeli military to run deadly AI programs such as Lavender and Gospel– crucial to the Gaza genocide. (Source: BDS)

Dell Technologies supplies the servers, maintains services and related equipment to the Israeli military as a part of a $150 million 2023 contract funded by US foreign aid. (Source: BDS)

Through its partnerships with the Israeli government, military, prisons and police, HP provides critical technological and logistical support that facilitates war crimes and crimes against humanity, including illegal settlement construction and apartheid in the OPT. HPE supports Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority, a crucial pillar of its apartheid system, by providing technology for its databases and IT systems. (Source: BDS)

Shell has contributed 31.95 billion tons of carbon dioxide since 1965, supplies 5% of Israel’s oil, and holds stakes in the Caspian Pipeline, which delivers oil from Kazakhstan to Israel. (Source: The Guardian, Oil Change International)

 

$20,000 Sponsorship: Apartheid Collaborator: Intel, Lockheed Martin, and Cargill.
Intel’s main facility in Israel is in Kiryat Gat, an Israeli settlement built on the ruins of the ethnically cleansed Palestinian village of Iraq al-Manshiyya. It lies approximately 16 miles from the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. It has invested more than $50 billion in apartheid Israel’s economy over the last 50 years. (Source: BDS)

The world’s largest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel has been using extensively to bomb Gaza. Israel also uses the company’s C-130 Hercules transport planes to support the ground invasion of Gaza. (Source: AFSC)

Cargill has been fined in Brazilian court for using suppliers who farm cocoa using child labor. It has been fined in the United States for using child labor in a Kansas meatpacking plant. (Source: Reuters, Kansas Reflector)

 

$15,000 Sponsorship: Settler-Colonialism Connector: Aramark, AXA, Barclays, BP, Caterpillar, Cisco, DTE, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Nestle, Sandia National Laboratories, Teva Pharmaceuticals.
These include weapons manufacturers (General Dynamics, L3Harris), equipment and tech suppliers (Caterpillar, Cisco), companies profiting of Israel’s illegal occupation (Teva, AXA) companies with ICE contracts (Aramark), major polluters (BP, DTE) and companies using child labor (Nestle).

 

As you read this post, Disability:IN showers these corporations with awards in the name of “disability inclusion.”


They reward corporations responsible for children with bomb-amputated legs, families exposed to toxic fumes, and people kidnapped and tortured in detention facilities.


For Disability:IN, only some disabled people get to be “included” in disability inclusion - those who are white, wealthy, and Western. Disability:IN celebrates the debilitation and disablement of the people on the periphery.


We are tired of big “disability” organizations manufacturing disabled consent for heinous crimes committed for profit.

Tell Disability:IN: No Partnerships with War Profiteers!

Disability:IN describes itself as "the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide."

Disability:IN boasts that it "empowers over 500 leading companies to achieve disability inclusion and equality." Disability:IN give these companies disability inclusion awards.

Some of the companies Disability:IN has given awards to and accepted sponsorship money from make money from selling weapons and supplies to Israel. Israel uses these weapons and supplies to continue bombing and destroying Palestine.  

It is wrong for Disability:IN to claim they support disabled people while working with companies that are killing and disabling people in Palestine and other places in the Global South.

Use the template below to send a letter to Disability:IN and demand they cut ties with companies making money off of genocide!

Read the letter you'd send below with links to our sources

I Demand Disability:IN Cut Its Ties to War Profiteers

I am writing to demand that Disability:IN cut its ties to war profiteers. 

It is now estimated that at least 186,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, amounting to 8% of the population. According to Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a Palestinian surgeon who had to perform amputations on wounded Gazan children, Palestine now has the largest cohort of child amputees in history. 

Disability:IN continues to accept sponsorships and partnerships from, and continues to award, many of the companies that have created the weapons, vehicles, and technology being used by Israel to facilitate this genocide. Boeing, a Presenting Partner of the 2024 Disability:IN Conference, is the world's fifth largest weapons manufacturer, and it manufactures the Joint Direct Attack Munition Kits which convert unguided MK-80 bombs into guided munitions. These munitions were used to bomb the Jabalia refugee camp on November 1, 2023, killing hundreds of civilians, an act that may amount to a war crime according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Boeing also makes 250-pound GBU-39 guided small diameter bombs, which were used during the May 26 airstrike on Tel al-Sultan refugee camp, causing a massive fire that resulted in the death of at least 45 people. Among those casualties were Ahmad Al-Najar, a baby who was beheaded when the bomb struck. 

Boeing is just one example of the weapons manufacturers that Disability:IN partners with that has facilitated the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in this ongoing genocide. The following companies are recognized by the American Friends Service Committee as "publicly traded companies that consistently, knowingly, and directly enable or facilitate human rights violations or violations of international law as part of prolonged military occupations, apartheid, and genocide:" BAE Systems (2024 Best Places to Work Honoree), Boeing (2024 Presenting Partner and Best Places to Work honoree), Caterpillar (2024 Connector), General Dynamics (2024 Connector and Best Places to Work honoree), L3Harris (2024 Connector and Best Places to Work honoree), Leonardo (2024 Best Places to Work honoree), Lockheed Martin (2024 Influencer and Best Places to Work honoree), Northrop Grumman (2024 Influencer and Best Places to Work honoree), and RTX/Raytheon (2024 Thought Leader and Best Places to Work honoree).

On June 20, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner called on weapons manufacturers to cease the sale, transfer, and diversion of arms, munitions and other military equipment to Israel, stating "these companies, by sending weapons, parts, components, and ammunition to Israeli forces, risk being complicit in serious violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law." They directed this call to companies including BAE Systems, Boeing, Caterpillar, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and RTX. All of these companies are listed as Disability:IN Corporate Partners.

The 2023 Disability Equality Index awarded HP, Siemens, Barclays, Chevron, Intel, and eleven weapons manufacturing companies with the top score 100 of "Best Places to Work." All 16 companies are corporate partners with Disability:IN. The companies give Disability:IN their sponsorship money. Meanwhile, Disability:IN and your state affiliates award them the title of "best places to work" for disabled people. Those exact same companies build and send their weapons and technology to the governments and militaries exploiting and committing genocide against disabled Palestinians, Congolese, Sudanese, Tigrayans, and Haitians.

In order to be in solidarity with the Palestinian people and all people of the Global South, I demand:1. Disability:IN refuse donations, sponsorships, and partnerships from the weapons manufacturers listed above, and from other corporations that:- Create, finance, and sell the weapons and technology used to perpetuate the mass-disabling and genocide of Palestinian infants, children, and adults.- Invest in the exploitation of Palestinian land or the land of the Global South.
- Are otherwise complicit in or profiting from war crimes.2. Exclude war profiteers from its disability mentoring, hiring, and inclusion initiatives, such as the NextGen Leader Initiative which connects young disabled employees to corporate mentors. 3. Disability:IN end the practice of awarding war profiteers the title of "Best Place to Work" on the basis of disability inclusion. This year, the following companies profiting off of the genocide in Palestine earned a 100 score on the Disability Equality Index: This year, the following weapon-producing, survelliance, and BDS target companies profitting off of the genocide in Palestine earned a 100 score on the Disability Equality Index: 

Note: This is not an exhaustive list of the companies that benefit from the genocide in Palestine and violence in the Global South.

Disability:IN cannot claim to be a champion for disability rights while supporting companies that actively facilitate the killing of disabled people worldwide.