Does Occidental Petroleum support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Occidental Petroleum. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Energy & oil companies · Companies that support Israel

Background

This pass found no record of Occidental Petroleum donations, investments, operations in Israel, or declared support, and the company does not appear on the major boycott lists. Its oil and gas operations are concentrated in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Algeria — none in Israel — and unlike BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies it is not named in Oil Change International's 'Behind the Barrel' research on Israel's fuel supply. All 26 'Israel' hits in its SEC filings are incidental: forward-looking-statement boilerplate listing 'the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas war' among market risks in earnings releases, a 2002 proxy biography of director Edward Djerejian noting his 1993–94 service as US Ambassador to Israel, and underwriting prospectus text. No corporate foundation appears in the IRS Business Master File, the Occidental PAC shows no disbursements to pro-Israel committees, and no fact-checker has evaluated any Occidental–Israel claim.

Occidental — Operations (no Israel assets) Oil Change International — Behind the Barrel (does not name Occidental) SEC — Occidental Q3 2023 earnings release (Israel appears only in risk boilerplate)

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-21
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-21
  ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer searches for 'Occidental Petroleum' and 'Occidental' return no corporate foundation (only unrelated Occidental-named nonprofits such as Occidental College); Oxy's giving runs as direct corporate/employee programs. No Israel-linked grantmaking identifiable.
• SEC filings — 2026-07-21
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-21
  Occidental Petroleum Corporation PAC (C00083857) is active and filing; Schedule B disbursement searches for recipients matching 'Israel' and 'AIPAC' returned zero results. PAC money is employee-funded political giving, not corporate donations.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-21
  No Snopes/Reuters/AFP/Logically Facts fact-check of an Occidental–Israel claim exists. Occidental is absent from the BDS movement's target lists, the USCPR boycott list, and Ethical Consumer's Palestine boycott list; absence in both directions corroborates the no-records finding.
• usaspending — 2026-09-25
  Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-25 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
• lobbying — 2026-09-25
  Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-25 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
• ohchr — 2026-09-25
  Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-25. This company is not listed in it.
• whoprofits — 2026-09-25
  Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-25 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
• hebrew-arabic-press — 2026-09-25
  Searched Hebrew and Arabic news for this company on 2026-09-25 via Google News and Bing News. No headline mentioned a donation, aid, the war, an investment, an acquisition or a boycott.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-25

• Occidental — Operations (no Israel assets) oxy.com
• Oil Change International — Behind the Barrel (does not name Occidental) oilchange.org
• SEC — Occidental Q3 2023 earnings release (Israel appears only in risk boilerplate) sec.gov