Seakura is an agri-tech company from the zionist entity known as israel. In Canada, Seakura is known for its commercial seaweed food products. Although, in recent years, it has shifted its business model to promoting its technology as a cleaning/filtering agent and entering the desalination market, specifically the Gulf countries, which according to Seakura CEO Efrat Lev “account for 60 percent of the world’s desalinated water production”. This shift comes as a direct result from collaboration with israeli ministry of agriculture.
Seakura’s narrative of its agri-tech innovation fits comfortably into the Zionist trope of “making the desert bloom,” a narrative used to justify settler-colonialism by erasing the presence and agricultural history of Palestinians. This narrative is not only a hasbara trick but presents itself on the ground.
Seakura not only operates on stolen-land inside in the 1948 borders but also has it’s distribution points inside illegal settlements of Gush Etzion and Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
Although Seakura is officially an “Israeli” company, its origin is connected to Canada. Seakura is owned and founded by the Canadian company Metrontario Group; the same Metrontario which was recently put in the UN Database for complicity in the expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories include East Jerusalem. Its complicity in the occupation has previously been identified by groups such as Who Profits.
Metrontario also supports the construction of illegal settlements throughout it’s subsidiaries and by funneling charitable donation to the zionist settler colony through the Lily and Nathan Silver Foundation which funds Canadian burner charities that are directing funds to illegal settlements and the Israeli military.
One of Metrontario’s subsidiaries, the real estate and construction company CIM Lustigma, is directly implicated in the building of illegal settlements. And shares some of the same leadership with Seakura. Until recently due to his death, Yossi Karta served as the chairman of CIM Lustigman, Isotopia and was also the founder and former CEO of Seakura.