As people around the world celebrate the global football competition known as the World Cup, pro-Palestine activists have called out FIFA for its complicity in Israeli apartheid, and called on the global football operation to drop its ties with Sentrycs, and Israeli anti-drone technology company.
According to the Israeli news site Globes, “As part of its acquisition spree in Israel, US company Ondas (Nasdaq: ONDS) last November bought Sentrycs, which develops and produces anti-drone technologies. Sentrycs technology has been chosen to provide security against drones during the World Cup this summer in the US, Canada and Mexico.”
Quds News reports that Sentrycs, the company securing World Cup matches, is an Israeli company founded in Tel Aviv under the supervision of individuals who worked and trained in Unit 8200, the intelligence unit of the Israeli army. The company’s products are also used by the Israeli army and by weapons manufacturers affiliated with the Israeli government, such as Rafael.
According to Quds News, this role makes Sentrycs complicit in the genocide in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and its technologies have contributed to the commission of war crimes. Sentrycs’ participation in securing World Cup matches is a reward for the company despite its crimes against humanity, instead of subjecting it to boycott and accountability.
