Can you Identify this Racist Scumbag in Cheadle Who Attacked an Indian Man Today
Does anyone know who this racist scumbag is?
As you may know in the past 6 months Palestine Action has closed
down 2 of Elbit’s 10 sites in Britain, at Oldham and their HQ in London. We
have them on the run and now is not the time to let up.
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On Sunday afternoon, a team of
Palestine Action activists took to UAV Engines LTD. – a
factory belonging to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms company,
descending on the site and inflicting significant damage to facilities.
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Produced at the site are the
components that make up Elbit’s military drones – including the Hermes
450 and 900, put to extensive use in surveillance and
attacks on the captive population of Gaza, Palestine.
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In recent months, site operations
have been halted numerous times by Palestine action. The factory has long been
a target by pro-Palestine activists, and is frequented by locals who protest
the site’s operations weekly.
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Also manufactured by Elbit is
the Watchkeeper drone – modelled on the Hermes 450 and
supplied to the British military, border force and other governmental agencies,
at home the Watchkeeper is used for policing British citizens and monitoring
migrants attempting to cross the English Channel.
On Saturday
night, Israeli military forces raided Nablus, killing two Palestinians and
injuring 9 others, armed with stun grenades and ammunition. Today, members
of Palestine Action descended upon Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems’
factory in Shenstone, smashing and striking at the site exterior, throwing red
paint, a message to the Israeli occupation and those who uphold it – the day
has passed where your violence will go unchecked, prepare to be met with
resistance every step of the way. Activists took action today seeking to
dismantle an industry built on occupation, dispossession and warfare across the
globe.
The site in
question is UAV Engines LTD. and has faced extensive action in the past, owing
to its manufacture of components used in Elbit military drones such as the
Watchkeeper UAV. A direct action campaign for site closure has been fought
for nearly two years under the #ShutElbitDown banner, and longer by activists
taking sporadic action. It has been waged by dozens of activists who have faced
arrest and loss of liberty, alongside mass support from locals who wish to see
an end to a brutal industry that starts on our doorsteps. After huge successes
for the broader campaign, its use of direct action and community organising
culminating in the closure of two of Elbit’s sites in London and Manchester, Palestine
Action is working to permanently close UAV Engines LTD.
Elbit’s
clientele spans much of the world – its military goods are sold on and used for
anything from violent repression en masse, to the surveillance of both sky and
sea. For many years, the Hermes 450/900 drones have been a staple of life in
Gaza. They hold a constant presence in the skies, made ever known by their
distinct buzzing, the threat of bombing always lurking. As Elbit themselves
have said, the drones are “battle-tested” on Palestine – inaugurated
through testing on Palestine’s captive populations, then sold back to
militaries across the world.
Elbit drones
are sold on to Israel in huge numbers (Elbit drones make up 85% of Israel’s
drone fleet) and used to keep entire populations living in fear, under
permanent siege-mentality – 91% of children in Gaza suffering from PTSD.
Today’s action has been taken in their name, with a promise of resistance until
victory – an end to Britain’s complicity, and a Palestine free from the horrors
of occupation and state terror.
A Palestine
Action spokesperson said: “Elbit drones are made in Britain, tested on
Palestine then sold back to the British military, amongst others. The British
military hold deep ties with Elbit – Britain is an accomplice in an
international industry built on occupation, one where technlogy is suited not
to meet human needs, but to further repression and terror. We can only cut
these ties with direct action taken by the masses – ordinary people, willing to
make sacrifices in order to end our collective complicity.”
See After Israel Invades
Nablus, Palestine Action Storms an Israeli Drone Factory
Can You
Identify this Racist Scumbag?
I saw this violent
racist attack on an Indian man (who he kept calling a 'Paki') today on Twitter.
It needs to be given the widest publicity so that Cheadle Police are
forced to arrest and charge him.
This bloke has gone down. Stockport's finest...
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