For many years JCB’s machinery has been used by the Israeli authorities to demolish Palestinian homes and construct illegal Israeli settlements on the seized Palestinian land. This report shows that JCB has not taken adequate steps within the company’s means to prevent its machinery from being used for these purposes...The report draws on extensive interviews with organisations that have witnessed human rights violations and with senior compliance and risk-management practitioners from well-known companies, as well as open-source research techniques...

JCB lists a privately-owned Israeli company, Comasco Ltd (Comasco), as its sole dealer in Israel. For many years JCB’s heavy machinery has been used in situations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) where war crimes and human rights violations have been committed. Since 1967, Israel has demolished tens of thousands of Palestinian homes and structures, and displaced large swathes of the population, to build homes and infrastructure to settle its own population...

JCB has not taken adequate steps within its power and capacity to prevent its equipment from being used to demolish Palestinian homes and construct Israeli settlements. This failure puts the company in breach of its responsibilities under international human rights standards applicable to business and may be sufficiently serious to carry legal liability.

The company cannot claim ignorance of the human rights impacts of its products as these impacts have been highlighted publicly by organisations that have borne witness to them...