Evict Elbit Systems, Wallenstam
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Sign the petition and demand that Wallenstam evicts Elbit!
Wallenstam AB is one of the largest private housing companies in Sweden. In Gothenburg, Wallenstam leases offices at Långfilsgatan 5 in Kallebäck to Elbit Systems Sweden AB, the Swedish subsidiary of the Israeli company Elbit Systems.
Elbit Systems supplies the Israeli military with 85 percent of their drones and 85 percent of their land-based equipment. They make huge amounts of money from the ongoing genocide, which the company uses to pay rent to Wallenstam. Consequently Wallenstam is also profiting from these war crimes.
The fact that Wallenstam chooses to lease to Elbit, which directly finances and equips the IDF, is not only immoral and unethical, Wallenstam risks becoming an accomplice to these war crimes if the silence about the situation continues. Wallenstam should immediately evict Elbit Systems from its premises. As long as Elbit can rent premises from Wallenstam, Wallenstam has blood on their hands.
Contact Wallenstam
Do you think it should not be possible to make money from genocide? Contact Wallenstam and let them know that they must evict Elbit! The easiest way to do this is through the email campaign on Skiftet where all you have to do is fill in your details, modify the message if you want, and then click send. You can also email the CEO and Deputy CEO directly, using the templates below (feel free to rewrite them to suit you):
To the CEO (replace [at] with @): hans.wallenstam[at]wallenstam.se.
Hello Hans,
I am writing to you to inform you about one of Wallenstam's tenants, Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is an Israeli arms company that recently established a branch in Sweden. The company is headquartered at one of your addresses, Långfilsgatan 5 in Gothenburg. Elbit Systems supplies the Israeli military with 85% of their drones and 85% of their land-based equipment. This company has an active role in the genocide[1] of what is now around 24,000 Palestinian civilians. About half of those murdered were children. Elbit Systems makes millions from the ongoing genocide, money that it then uses to pay its rent to you and your company. So you too are profiting from these war crimes. In addition to contributing to the genocide in Gaza, their Hermes drones have also been used for extrajudicial executions in countries like Sudan, as well as similar operations in Egypt. Wallenstam accepts blood money in rent, and that makes you an accomplice to this immoral warfare that both the EU, the UN, and organizations such as MSF and Amnesty have condemned. The fact that Wallenstam chooses to lease to Elbit Systems, which directly finances and equips the IDF, is not only shameful and unacceptable, Wallenstam also risks becoming an accomplice[2] to these war crimes if the silence about the situation continues. Wallenstam should immediately evict the company from its premises. As long as Elbit Systems receives rent from Wallenstam, you and your colleagues have blood on your hands.
I sincerely hope that you will look into this and rectify it as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
An outraged citizen/tenant
[1] Genocide is stipulated in Article 6 of the Rome Statute and Article 2 of the Genocide Convention, as below. While intent is often the most difficult to prove in a court of law, since October 2023 many Israeli politicians and decision-makers have explicitly expressed intent to destroy the Palestinian people.
"For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group"
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (last updated 2010), adopted 17 July 1998, ISBN No. 92-9227-227-6, https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/RS-Eng.pdf; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in New York on December 9, 1948. Ratified by Sweden on May 9, 1952 https://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/7187cb03d74e43a89991198a13251638/konventionen-om-forebyggande-och-bestraffning-av-brottet-folkmord-genocide-so-195264/
[2] Direct, indirect or beneficial complicity and silent complicity, developed as a legal field, can arise from facilitating or benefiting from war crimes and human rights violations. Andrew Clapham and Scott Jerbi, 'Categories of corporate complicity in human rights abuses' (2000) 24 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 339; Florian Wettstein, 'Silence as complicity: elements of a corporate duty to speak out against the violation of human rights' in Wesley Cragg (ed), Business and Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2012) 108.
To the Deputy CEO (replace [snabela] with @): marina.fritsche[snabela]wallenstam.se.
Hello Marina Fritsche,
I am writing to you to inform you about one of Wallenstam's tenants, Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is an Israeli arms company that recently established a branch in Sweden. The company is headquartered at one of your addresses, Långfilsgatan 5 in Gothenburg. Elbit Systems supplies the Israeli military with 85% of their drones and 85% of their land-based equipment. This company has an active role in the genocide[1] of what is now around 24,000 Palestinian civilians. About half of those murdered were children. Elbit Systems makes millions from the ongoing genocide, money that it then uses to pay its rent to you and your company. So you too are profiting from these war crimes. In addition to contributing to the genocide in Gaza, their Hermes drones have also been used for extrajudicial executions in countries like Sudan, as well as similar operations in Egypt. Wallenstam accepts blood money in rent, and that makes you an accomplice to this immoral warfare that both the EU, the UN, and organizations such as MSF and Amnesty have condemned. The fact that Wallenstam chooses to lease to Elbit Systems, which directly finances and equips the IDF, is not only shameful and unacceptable, Wallenstam also risks becoming an accomplice[2] to these war crimes if the silence about the situation continues. Wallenstam should immediately evict the company from its premises. As long as Elbit Systems receives rent from Wallenstam, you and your colleagues have blood on your hands.
I sincerely hope that you will look into this and rectify it as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
An outraged citizen/tenant
[1] Genocide is stipulated in Article 6 of the Rome Statute and Article 2 of the Genocide Convention, as below. While intent is often the most difficult to prove in a court of law, since October 2023 many Israeli politicians and decision-makers have explicitly expressed intent to destroy the Palestinian people.
"For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group"
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (last updated 2010), adopted 17 July 1998, ISBN No. 92-9227-227-6, https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/RS-Eng.pdf; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in New York on December 9, 1948. Ratified by Sweden on May 9, 1952 https://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/7187cb03d74e43a89991198a13251638/konventionen-om-forebyggande-och-bestraffning-av-brottet-folkmord-genocide-so-195264/
[2] Direct, indirect or beneficial complicity and silent complicity, developed as a legal field, can arise from facilitating or benefiting from war crimes and human rights violations. Andrew Clapham and Scott Jerbi, 'Categories of corporate complicity in human rights abuses' (2000) 24 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 339; Florian Wettstein, 'Silence as complicity: elements of a corporate duty to speak out against the violation of human rights' in Wesley Cragg (ed), Business and Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2012) 108.