Israeli Investments in the Netherlands

Israeli companies invest more in the Netherlands than in any other country in the world.

Even Israel's biggest arms companies use the Netherlands as a hub, as a gateway for their

investments in Europe.

This is all revealed in an investigation that we're publishing today.

So why do these companies use the Netherlands?

How is it possible that the Netherlands, such a tiny country, attracts so many billions

of euros in investment from Israel?

Well, the Netherlands is a tax haven.

So a lot of this investment is not staying in the Netherlands, but it's from companies

that are using the Netherlands to using the Dutch tax and legal system to structure their

investments in Europe and the rest of the world.

So let's look at one example, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

This is a state-owned company and one of the biggest and most important suppliers of weapons

to the Israeli military, weapons that are used and contribute to apartheid, to genocide

and to occupation against Palestinians.

Now this company uses a Dutch letterbox company, a company with no employees in the Netherlands,

but with millions and millions in assets to hold all of its subsidiaries in Europe,

in the UK, Germany and Spain.

All of Rafael's companies in these countries are owned by this Dutch letterbox company,

which provide all kinds of benefits to these companies when they're investing in other countries.

So we're calling on the Dutch government to stop facilitating investment that is bankrolling

genocide, that is bankrolling occupation and that is bankrolling apartheid.

Instead of facilitating this kind of investment, the Netherlands should be restricting the

flow of capital to and from Israel.

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