[News] Palestine Action Once Again Hit Allianz In Dramatic Overnight Raid

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Palestine Action Once Again Hit Allianz In Dramatic Overnight Raid
By The Canary.
February 6, 2025
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Palestine Action <https://www.thecanary.co/topics/palestine-action/> has
once again piled the pressure on genocidal insurer Allianz – as it
continues to prop-up Israel’s <https://www.thecanary.co/topics/israel/>
weapons manufacturer Elbit amid Donald Trump’s calls for ethnic cleansing
<https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/02/05/trump-gaza-ethnic-cleansing/>
in Gaza.
Allianz: Facing The Wrath Of Palestine Action Again

During the early hours of 5 February, Palestine Action once again targeted
Allianz, this time with a direct action protest at the company’s Milton
Keynes office:

Activists had smashed windows and covered the building in red paint:

The action has been taken as part of an escalating campaign to force
Allianz to drop its financial ties and end its insurance policies for Elbit
Systems – Israel’s largest weapons firm and a key player in the ongoing
genocide of the Palestinian people.

The protest follows last week’s disruption of Allianz’s operations, which
saw 15 offices across Europe
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/01/29/palestine-action-allianz-israel/>
targeted, daubed in blood-red paint, their windows smashed, with 10
branches in Britain likewise struck
<https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/08/activists-target-ten-allianz-offices-over-elbit-links/>
in October. These actions are sending a clear message: it must end its
complicity in genocide by dropping Elbit Systems. Allianz continues to fuel
the massacre of Palestinians by underwriting and insuring Elbit, a company
that manufactures drones, bombs, and other weapons used by the Israeli
military <https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3794> in its
genocidal campaign against Palestinians.

“We won’t stop until Allianz drop Elbit Systems” said a spokesperson for
Palestine Action. “Allianz is complicit in the systematic genocide of
Palestinians. If they keep underwriting Elbit Systems, we will continue our
resistance. There will be no safe haven for war criminals”.
Drop Elbit

Palestine Action’s direct actions are targeting multinational corporations
like Allianz that not only profit from the genocide of the Palestinian
people, but facilitate it. Without insurance, Elbit could not operate in
the UK. Allianz, a global insurance giant, which as been underwriting Elbit
Systems for years, is complicit in Israel’s war crimes.

It has previously been described as Elbit’s “principle institutional
shareholder
<http://wri-irg.org/en/story/2012/campaign-month-no-allianz-israeli-apartheid>“,
at-one-point owning over 2% of the company. The finance company continues
to hold thousands of shares in Elbit Systems Ltd. [5
<http://fintel.io/so/us/eslt>], while its subsidiary ‘Allianz Insurance
Products Trust’ provides insurance services for Elbit Systems UK, including
employment insurance.
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