In a statement, Palestine Action said: “During the early hours of Thursday, activists from Palestine Action targeted the London-based landlords of Elbit’s Instro Precision weapons factory. The registered address … was covered in red paint and the front windows were shattered, to demonstrate against the company’s involvement in arming the Gaza genocide.”
Max Geller, a spokesperson for Palestine Action, denied that targeting the Stamford Hill business was antisemitic. He said: “We treat all businesses which work with Israel’s biggest weapons firm equally, irrespective of the identities of those businesses’ owners.
“We are 600 days into a genocide perpetrated by companies operating in Britain. Whether businesses supply Elbit or provide them with the premises to build Israeli weapons, we will target them until they drop Elbit.”
The group claims Instro Precision was granted more than a dozen weapons export licences last year for the shipment of arms to Israel. Palestine Action says it targets all those who profit from the operations of Israel’s biggest weapons producer and demanded the landlord evict Instro Precision.
