 Along with Noam Chomsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other intellectuals, Genoud was a member of a committee which mounted a humanitarian campaign in the 1970s, which resulted in the pardon in 1977 of Bruno Bréguet, a Swiss militant who was the first European to be tried and sentenced in Israel for their pro-Palestinian activities; Bréguet had served seven years of his 15-year sentence.Genoud found himself in legal troubles from time to time, such as in 1983, when he was represented by Baudoin Dunant, a leading Geneva-based lawyer who sits on the board of over 20 companies, including the Saudi Investment Company, the overseas arm of the Saudi Binladin Group.In 1993 a bomb exploded outside his home and by 1996 Swiss authorities were still investigating him for his financial activities during the Third Reich.