Caterpillar makes civil and military engineering machinery at a manufacturing and logistics center in Mississippi. The company is famously a long-standing supplier of the Israeli military and its machines have been widely used for the demolition of homes in the occupied West Bank, making it one of the main targets of the BDS movement. During former Governor Bryant’s visit to Israel in December 2018, he claimed to have “addressed the efforts” to boycott companies that do business in Israel and assured Caterpillar that it would not have to stop selling equipment to Israel thanks to Mississippi’s anti-BDS bill. Besides being represented by industry chambers such as the MEC, Caterpillar has its own PAC and lobbying arm through which it frequently meets with legislators.

Sources: Who Profits Research Center, Jewish News Syndicate