<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the discussion has been closed. --> {{Article for deletion/dated|page=Who Profits Research Center|timestamp=20260531090550|year=2026|month=May|day=31|substed=yes|help=off}} <!-- Once discussion is closed, please place on talk page: {{Old AfD multi|page=Who Profits Research Center|date=31 May 2026|result='''keep'''}} --> <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> {{pp|small=yes}} {{Short description|Independent research center}} {{Infobox organization | name = Who Profits? | logo = | type = [[Non-profit organization]] | founded = 2007{{sfn|''Who Profits?''}} | tax_id = | founder = | location = | origins = | key_people = Dalit Baum, Merav Amir{{sfn|Harlow|2015}} | region_served = [[Israel]] and the [[Palestinian territories]]{{sfn|''Who Profits?''}} | product = | purpose = "dedicated to exposing the role of the private sector in the Israeli occupation economy"{{sfn|''Who Profits?''}} | method = Online database of complicit corporations, online information center, and publication of regular reports on the corporate aspects of the occupation.{{sfn|''Who Profits?''}} | revenue = | abbreviation = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | subsid = | owner = | website = {{url|https://whoprofits.org/}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }}
'''Who Profits Research Center''' is an independent research center which investigates links between the private sector and the economy in the [[Israeli-occupied territories]].{{sfn|''Foundation for Middle East Peace''}} The Center was founded in 2007 as a project by the Israeli [[Coalition of Women for Peace]] and became independent in 2013.{{sfn|''Foundation for Middle East Peace''}} The director of Who Profits?, Dalit Baum, explains the idea as follows:{{sfn|Fleischmann|2019|p=41}} {{quote|text=We do know that nobody likes corporations profiting from human rights violations...we know that the occupation is costly but it is costly to the state, while the economy is benefitting through the private sector, following the privatisation of the 1990s...so maybe by focusing on the corporations, we can find a new audience and new allies because corporations are not people and because [[corporate crime]] goes in many different directions and many people suffer from it’}} On its website Who Profits? keeps an updated database of Israeli and international corporations involved in the occupation. The database is often consulted by the [[BDS movement]] when selecting boycott targets.{{sfn|Barghouti|2011|p=31}}
Who Profits? has published reports about Israeli cosmetics manufacturer [[Ahava]],{{sfn|Hass|2012}}{{sfn|''Who Profits?'' April|2012}} the international security giant [[G4S]],{{sfn|''Who Profits?'' March|2011}} and the rental online marketplace [[Airbnb]].{{sfn|''Who Profits?'' September|2017}}
== See also == * [[Boycott from Within]]
== References == === Citations === {{reflist|20em}}
=== Sources === {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book | first=Leonie | last=Fleischmann | title=The Israeli Peace Movement: Anti-Occupation Activism and Human Rights since the Al-Aqsa Intifada | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xq-pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT41|date=19 September 2019 | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-83860-098-3 | pages=41– }} * {{cite web | title=Who Profits Research Center | website=whoprofits | url=https://whoprofits.org/about-who-profits | access-date=August 29, 2020 | ref={{sfnref|Who Profits?}} }} * {{cite book | first=Omar|last=Barghouti | title=BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions : the Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odEO0JqAuzMC&pg=PA62 | year=2011|publisher=Haymarket Books | isbn=978-1-60846-114-1 }} * {{cite web | last=Hass | first=Amira | title=Disney family member renounces her investments in Israel's Ahava Cosmetics | website=Haaretz.com | date=July 16, 2012 | url=https://www.haaretz.com/disney-heir-dumps-ahava-investment-1.5267006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823114347/https://www.haaretz.com/disney-heir-dumps-ahava-investment-1.5267006 | url-status=dead | archive-date=August 23, 2018 | access-date=November 13, 2020 }} * {{cite web | url = https://whoprofits.org/updates/the-israeli-exploitation-of-palestinian-natural-resources-part-iv-ahava/ | title = Ahava: Tracking the Trade Trail of Settlement Products | website = whoprofits.org | date = April 2012 | publisher = Who Profits? | ref = {{sfnref|Who Profits? April|2012}} }} * {{cite web | url = https://whoprofits.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/old/WhoProfits-PrivateSecurity-G4S.pdf | title = The Case of G4S: Private Security Companies and the Israeli Occupation | website = whoprofits.org | publisher = Who Profits? | ref = {{sfnref|Who Profits? March|2011}} }} * {{cite web | title=Foundation for Middle East Peace | website=Foundation for Middle East Peace | date=March 11, 2019 | url=https://fmep.org/grant-program/who-profits/ | ref={{sfnref | Foundation for Middle East Peace}} | access-date=November 13, 2020 }} * {{cite web | url = https://whoprofits.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/old/touring_israeli_settlements_wp_flash_report_oct_2017-3.pdf | title = Touring Israeli Settlements: Business and Pleasure for the Economy of Occupation | website = whoprofits.org | publisher = Who Profits? | ref = {{sfnref|Who Profits? September|2017}} }} * {{cite journal | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/culturalcritique.91.2015.0190 | title = "Be it Resolved …": Referenda on Recent Scholarship in the Israel–Palestine Conflict | last = Harlow | first = Barbara | date = Fall 2015 | publication = Cultural Critique | volume = 91 | doi = 10.5749/culturalcritique.91.2015.0190 | jstor = 10.5749/culturalcritique.91.2015.0190 | pages=190–205 | url-access = subscription }} {{refend}} == External links == * [https://whoprofits.org/ Who Profits?] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZKh6aCbNU Dalit Baum - Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation? April 12, 2012]
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