On February 24, nearly 1,000 activists staged a demonstration to shut down the headquarters of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Copenhagen.
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Today in Copenhagen 800 people from all over Europe shut down the main Maersk HQ for the day as part of the CRAC Camp under the Mask Off Maersk slogan “Cut Ties from Genocide”.
Police were outnumbered but quite brutal to those participating in the action. The crowd… pic.twitter.com/4II83Eo8Jt
— Palestinian Youth Movement (@palyouthmvmt) February 24, 2025
The pro-Palestine demonstrators were protesting Maersk’s shipment of arms to Israel, under the slogan of the international “Mask off Maersk” campaign, as part of a protest camp organized by the CRAC Collective. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg participated in the demonstration, saying that “we take it on ourselves because we know that these big companies are all about profit.”
The Palestinian Youth Movement launched the international “Mask off Maersk” campaign last year, targeting one of the largest shipping companies in the world. Maersk has shipped millions of tons of military cargo from the US to Israel since October 7, playing a key role in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people.
Pro-Palestine demonstrators have launched actions against Maersk globally, including outside the Port of Elizabeth in New Jersey, a major site of weapons shipments to Israel. The campaign won a major victory in November of last year when Spain blocked two Maersk ships carrying military cargo bound from Israel from docking at the port of Algeciras.
Demonstrators blocked the entrance to Maersk’s headquarters for over four hours, demanding that the logistics giant stop transporting military shipments to the Zionist state, and end all contracts with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Thunberg called on Maersk to “terminate all contracts and investment that support the genocide and occupation of Palestine.”
