VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala.—On Friday evening, a group of protesters gathered at a busy intersection in Liberty Park near the corporate campus of Drummond Company Inc., an Alabama-based coal producer. Their message was clear, painted and printed on signs bearing the green, red and black of the Palestinian flag: “Drummond Fuels Genocide.”

Chris Izor, one of the protesters, said that he and others present wanted to call attention to coal shipments to Israel from Drummond’s Colombian subsidiary, Drummond Ltd., that may violate Colombian law. An August 2024 decree by Colombia’s government ordered the halt of coal shipments to Israel in the wake of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Gaza.

Months before, in May 2024, Colombian President Gustavo Petro had formally announced the end of diplomatic ties w

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