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@rivkahbrown
Jul 3 • 22 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
.@Pal_action isn’t being proscribed because they are terrorists, but because they have been astonishingly effective at disrupting the work of Israel’s largest weapons company.

An inexhaustive, chronological thread of the group’s achievements to date 🧵
1. Shut down Oldham factory, January 2022

Elbit Systems announces it’s selling Ferranti P&C for £9m following 18 months of action from PA, including breaking into the factory, smashing windows and occupying the rooftop.

theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/19840066.…
2. Forced Elbit out of its London HQ, June 2022

Elbit abandons its 77 Kingsway headquarters after 15 actions on the site, ending in 60 arrests. The campaign included a sub-campaign “Evict Elbit” targeting Elbit’s landlords, Jones Lang Lasalle.

palestineaction.org/london-hq-shut/
The JLL campaign is the first major example of secondary targeting – targeting not just Elbit Systems but its suppliers and contractors – which will become a major feature of PA’s activities.
3. Dented Elbit’s stock price, November 2022

Elbit’s share price plummets 15% through November 2022, which is widely attributed to PA’s escalating actions. Image
4. Contributed to MoD dropping £160m Elbit contract, December 2022

Defence minister confirms Elbit has lost £160m contract to train submarine crews. Widespread agreement that this is because PA’s actions have made it an unreliable supplier.
middleeastmonitor.com/20221201-after…
5. Made recruiters drop Elbit, November 2023

@iOassociates confirms it’s no longer working with Elbit after PA activists occupy and spray-paint the recruiters’ Manchester offices.

middleeastmonitor.com/20231201-recru…
6. Forced property managers to drop Elbit, December 2023

@FisherGerman, which manages Elbit’s Shenstone drone factory, confirms it has cut ties with Elbit. PA activists targeted PA sites dozens of times. iO staff also reportedly quit over Elbit work.

freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/14/vic…
7. Made logistics company drop Elbit, February 2024

Kuehne + Nagel, which shipped weapons to apartheid South Africa, says it is no longer working with Elbit, nor will it. Only 6 companies can transport weapons in the UK, so this is a problem.

middleeastmonitor.com/20240202-trans…
8. Made Elbit sell its Tamworth factory, March 2024

Elbit Systems is forced to sell its Elite KL site near Birmingham. The factory previously made cooling systems for military vehicles, now for buses and trains. Talk about a green industrial revolution.

socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023…
9. Temporarily halted F-35 parts manufacture on the Wirral, October 2024

PA activists occupy the roof of Teledyne CML Composites in Bromborough, temporarily stopping its manufacture of components for F-35s, the jets Israel uses to bomb Gaza.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palest…
10. Forced Barclays to divest from Elbit, October 2024

@Barclays reports it has sold 16k+ shares in Elbit worth ~£2.5m. Follows 54 PA actions at Barclays sites. Barclays claims it didn’t hold the investment itself but on behalf of its clients. newarab.com/news/did-barcl…
11. Successfully lobbied lobbyists to drop Elbit, November 2024

Apco Worldwide announces it has ended its relationship with Elbit Systems after several PA actions at its HQ. PA reportedly sparked internal dissent within the company over Elbit work. palestineaction.org/apco-drops-elb…
12. Made machinery supplier drop Elbit, November 2024

Hydrafeed announces it has cut ties with Elbit and its subsidiaries. This follows PA’s destruction of Hydrafeed machinery at Elbit subsidiary Instro Precision’s factory in Kent.

thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/1…
13. Made landlords evict Elbit, February 2025

LondonMetric, a property giant with a £6bn portfolio, announces it’s selling its Leicester drone factory after a PA & Youth Front for Palestine campaign.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/proper…
14. Made metal specialists drop L3 Harris, February 2025

London & Brighton does metal finishing for L3 Harris, a weapons co that makes bomb release mechanisms for F-35s. It announces it’s no longer working with L3 Harris after Stop L3Harris & PA campaign. palestineaction.org/lb-victory/
The L&B targeting is a great example of one of PA’s strengths: identifying concretely and in microscopic detail how its targets facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Not symbolic wins but literal spanners in the death machine. Hugely motivating for its activists.
15. Made more metal specialists drop Elbit, April 2025

@deangroup says it has severed ties with Elbit subsidiary Instro Precision and promises never to work with the company again. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manufa…
16. Temporarily halted operations at Elbit contractor, July 2025

PA activists occupy the rooftop of Guardtech Group in Suffolk, which helps Elbit subsidiary Instro Precision produce radar kits and targeting equipment.

middleeasteye.net/news/palestine…
This is not to mention the work of PA’s sister groups overseas, including @unityoffields (formerly Palestine Action US), and @Pal_Libera_IT, the group’s Italian wing.
Also worth noting that *every single one* of the above links comes from independent media outlets (or, in the absence of coverage, from PA pressers). Interesting which "progressive" media outlets have only just now jumped on the PA bandwagon after years of ignoring the group.
Needed somewhere to dump all my research for this novaramedia.com/2025/06/23/pal…

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This reporting from the BBC's gender correspondent is both incorrect and, frankly, abusive.

First, Bettiza claims that Roxanne Tickle sued because she "identifies as a woman". No: she did so because she *is* a woman by law, something the Australian court has now confirmed.
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The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.
In a healthy media ecosystem, this story would be ruinous for the Labour party, particularly one so keen to assert its reliance on experts (hence all the quangos) and to restore the credibility the civil service so relentlessly attacked by Cummings et al.
As it is, UK reporters are mostly more concerned with preserving access in the hopes of being thrown the occasional bone than holding politicians' feet to the fire. Which is to say, more concerned with career advancement than the democratic function of journalism.
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To anyone who thinks Labour will be the lesser of two evils on Palestine: we are weeks away from the head of We Believe In Israel potentially becoming a minister of state. A Starmer govt will be significantly more ideological about perpetuating the genocide than a Sunak one.
It was Cameron who in 2010 described Gaza as a "prison camp". He's also described himself (to rightwing Jewish audiences) as a Zionist, but it clearly isn't as integral to his worldview. Keir Starmer is more like Joe Biden: deeply, irrationally sentimental about Israel.
And that's without even considering the political uses of Zionism for Starmer. Think of the lengths he's gone to prove he isn't his "anti-semitic" predecessor – can you imagine what a plentiful well of philosemitism credentials Gaza is?
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Something incredibly dark about Diane Abbott being silenced on her abuse in the House of Commons while her bullies in the Labour party are permitted to politically capitalise on it
Abbott has long been treated like a dog by the Labour right which now claims to be appalled by Hester's remarks, the exact same they've been making behind her back for years
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of people are staging a sit-in at Charing Cross station in London, chanting "Ceasefire now!"
Few police in the station right now, but dozens of vans parked outside the station and along the Strand.

Imagine they'll give the protesters a few mins before moving in to impose a section 14 (of the public order act 2023, which limits demos) & start making arrests.
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A new chant gets the crowd really loud: "Stop bombing Gaza!"
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Nothing could be better proof of Starmer's total indifference to anti-semitism than his use of it to oust his enemies. There are real-life Jews being shot up by real-life fascists in Halle, in Pittsburgh, and we're nothing to him but political tools. It's terrifying.
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What does Starmer's weaponisation of anti-semitism do to *actually existing anti-semitism*? It degrades it. Next time Jewish people raise the alarm about a threat, nobody listens – they assume it's just politicians having a go at each other again. Fucking fantastic.
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