[News] A Direct Action Group Is Taking Up Palestine Action’s Mantle

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A Direct Action Group Is Taking Up Palestine Action’s Mantle
By The Canary.
August 12, 2025
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Targets Israel’s F-35 suppliers.

On both 10 and 11 August, a direct action group called ‘DISMANTLE’ targeted
two companies which enable Israel’s <https://www.thecanary.co/topics/israel>
 genocide of the Palestinian <https://www.thecanary.co/topics/palestine>
people.
DISMANTLE: a direct action group targets key supplier to Teledyne

In the early hours of 10 August, the group targeted Stemmer Imaging of
Tongham, Surrey. Stemmer are a key supplier to Teledyne, who supply the
Israeli military with vital equipment, including parts for the F-35 jets,
which are central to their offensive air capability.

In a short video posted by the DISMANTLE group, an activist uses a
traditional shepherd’s sling, as used in Palestine for centuries, to hurl
projectiles at the Stemmer Imaging premises. DISMANTLE concluded with a
short statement by demanding:

Stemmer – cut ties with Teledyne.

It signed off with:

Together we can DISMANTLE the Zionist entity.

Labour government taking its cues from Israel

In September 2024, foreign secretary David Lammy announced that
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/israel-arms-sales-suspended-david-lammy-b2605778.html>
 Britain would be suspending 30 Arms Licenses to Israel. He told MPs that:

the assessment I have received finds that for certain UK arms exports to
Israel there exists a clear risk that they might be used to commit or
facilitate a serious violation of International Humanitarian Law.

However, the 30 arms licenses comprise less than 10% of the total export
licenses relating to the Israeli military. Moreover, as business and trade
secretary Jonathan Reynolds subsequently clarified
<https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-suspends-around-30-arms-export-licences-to-israel-for-use-in-gaza-over-international-humanitarian-law-concerns>,
it would not affect the supply of F-35 parts
<https://newint.org/arms/2025/uk-one-step-closer-ending-arms-sales-israel>,
which the Israeli air force have continued to use in Gaza.

American-owned Teledyne operates
<https://www.teledynedefenseelectronics.com/tdeaboutus/Pages/Locations_Map-UK.aspx>
 at six locations in Britain, and employs Lord Richard Dannatt as an
adviser. In 2022, Lord Dannatt wrote to
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/peer-sought-influence-palestine-action-case-behalf-us-company>
 two government ministers, urging them to crackdown on activists who had
targeted the Teledyne plant in Presteigne, Wales.

The activists, linked to the currently proscribed group ‘Palestine Action’,
were convicted of breaking into the plant, and causing £1m in damage.

In court, the prosecution denied that Dannatt had sought to interfere in
the case. However, he had written to the then home secretary Suella
Braverman warning that:

the threat from Palestine Action has more widespread implications for
security and the economy within the United Kingdom.

He said that he would be:

very grateful to receive assurance that the threat from Palestine Action is
fully recognised by our security services and appropriate action either
planned or being taken.

In 2024, the peer wrote to Dan Jarvis, Labour security minister, along
similar lines. Dannatt is now facing
<https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/14/lords-watchdog-investigates-richard-dannatt-after-guardian-revelations>
 conduct inquiries over two sets of allegations that he broke parliamentary
rules prohibiting peers from lobbying.
Caterpillar gets the DISMANTLE treatment

Early on the morning of 11 August, the DISMANTLE group carried out a second
action. This time it targeted the London offices of PwC, an auditing
company used by Caterpillar. Activists painted the front of the plush
building with slogans.

Caterpillar make the huge D9 bulldozers, that Israel has used as a weapon
of war for many years. The violent settler state first used armoured D9s in
the Sinai war in 1956. These have become synonymous with the wholesale
demolition
of
<https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/factsheet-home-demolitions-and-caterpillar>
 Palestinian homes, and entire villages. Israel has used the D9s
extensively, in the same manner, in Lebanon, and throughout Gaza.

In 2003, Israel crushed to death Rachel Corrie
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie>, a young American peace
activist, who had gone to Gaza as part of the International Solidarity
Movement with a Caterpillar D9. She was trying to prevent the destruction
of Palestinian homes.

Following its graffiti attack on PwC auditors, DISMANTLE issued a statement
in which it said:

This week Netenyahu announced his plans to occupy all of Gaza. The IDF will
certainly use Caterpillar’s tools to attempt to do so.

Caterpillar is deeply complicit – and so are any companies they work with.
We call on PwC to stop working with Caterpillar.
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