Activists gear up for a global campaign against the insurers of Israel’s genocide

This September, activist groups across five continents plan to strike two of the world’s most powerful insurance companies: AXA and AIG. Together, they are launching a powerful wave of global resistance with a synchronised campaign of disruption. The aim is to expose the companies’ role in fueling genocide, climate destruction, and social collapse.

Under the banner ‘Insure Our Survival‘, thousands of campaigners in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas will take action from 8 September. Organisers are calling the wave of action a “coordinated global backlash” against the insurance giants underwriting fossil fuel expansion
and weapons war criminal states are using in mass atrocities – particularly in Palestine.

AXA and AIG: insuring genocide and climate breakdown

In the UK, the mobilisation will see a wide range of groups from across the Palestine solidarity and climate justice movements unite to kick off the two weeks of action with a two-day mass blockade of AXA’s London offices on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September.

Organisers say the actions against these insurance companies will:

Cause major reputational damage and disruption to the benefit of their competitors.

They will expose the direct links between AXA’s corporate portfolio and both the fossil fuel projects driving climate breakdown and the arms trade sustaining Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Multiple watchdog groups have identified AXA and AIG as major enablers of destruction. The pair profit from human rights abuses and projects that will push the world beyond
2°C warming. All the while, they sell policies to protect against the very disasters they help worsen: floods, fires, famine, and forced displacement.

Protests in more than 30 cities are expected. They’ll range from office shutdowns to art-led performances, and digital disruptions. Groups from over 20 countries will take part, with major actions already confirmed across five continents.

Spokesperson for Insure Our Survival (UK) Lucy Porter said:

AXA is complicit in genocide and ecocide. They insure the bombs that kill babies in Palestine, and bankroll fossil fuel projects that rip apart our life-support systems. From the
Global South to the Global North, we stand together in solidarity – defending human rights, defending the future. This is a global, coordinated campaign, and we will strip AXA of its brand, its influence, and its ability to hide behind PR lies. Boycott AXA. Tell your friends, your family, your workplace: drop them now, and don’t stop until they end their war and climate crimes.

Ugandan activist Nicholas Omonuk added:

AIG’s refusal to drop EACOP means they back Total Energies as it uproots families, seizes farmland, poisons rivers, and unleashes more CO₂ than the entire annual emissions of Uganda. This is insurance for a carbon bomb that is already devastating our communities from Uganda to Tanzania and accelerating global climate collapse.

Member of Global Movement to Gaza Ru said:

From the shores of Gaza to the streets of London, we are united against the corporations that insure both climate collapse and genocide. AXA and AIG enable Israel’s blockade and bombardment, and profit from the destruction of our planet’s life support systems. We will not let them hide – we will blockade, boycott, and build a world where our futures are no longer underwritten by war.

Boycott insurance companies and hit them where it hurts

As part of the mobilisation, organisers are calling for a full boycott of the worst offending insurers. These include: AXA, Allianz, Aviva, Direct Line and LV= and all their sub-brands.

Campaigners say switching policies is “quick, free, and easy” and urge consumers to:

hit them where it hurts – their bottom line.

They plan to send an warning to the Industry it cannot ignore. Spokesperson for Insure Our Survival (UK) Jamie Anderson said:

With more groups joining weekly, the invisible power of insurers is now being dragged into the spotlight. Mounting evidence reveals what AXA, AIG and the other big insurers don’t have to disclose: how they use our insurance money to financially support Israel, war, arms and climate breakdown.

To every insurer funding war and climate collapse: your customers are waking up. Change now — or be next to face the global backlash.

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