[News] While disabled people blocked Westminster, Palestine Action hit genocide insurers Allianz - twice

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thecanary.co
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/27/allianz-bristol-palestine-action/>
While disabled people blocked Westminster, Palestine Action hit genocide
insurers Allianz - twice
The Canary
March 27, 2025
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On Wednesday 26 March, Palestine Action’s campaign to pressure Allianz, who
provide insurance for Elbit Systems
<https://corporatewatch.org/elbit-systems-company-profile-2/>, to end their
complicity in Israel’s <https://www.thecanary.co/topics/israel/> genocide
continued.
Allianz: shut down yet again

Two Allianz sites in Bristol, at Victoria Street and Aztec West were
sprayed with symbolic blood-red paint and had their windows smashed – in
order to shut them down and let people know the company’s profits are
covered in Palestinian blood.

This was the Aztec West site after Palestine Action paid it a visit:

[image: AztecWest_DirectAction_14P-©Mark-Simmons.jpg]Copyright Mark Simmons
[image: AztecWest_DirectAction_06P-©Mark-Simmons.jpg]Copyright Mark Simmons

And here’s what Palestine Action did to Allianz’s Victoria Street site:
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Copyright Avon Valley Pictures
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Copyright Avon Valley Pictures

Elbit, Israel’s biggest weapons maker, produces a variety of military
attack drones in Britain, which have been used extensively to kill
Palestinian civilians throughout the ongoing Gaza Genocide. The firm
supplies 85% of the IDF’s killer drone fleet and land-based equipment, as
well as electronic warfare devices, remote-controlled attack boats,
munitions, and more.

The Israeli weapons giant, who boast that their deadly products are “battle
tested”, are only able to operate in Britain because Allianz provide them
with insurance. By targeting the company, alongside Elbit, and all those
who aid and abet them, Palestine Action aim to stop production of the
weapons being used to massacre Palestinian civilians and save lives.

Palestine Action have already targeted scores of Allianz sites, many of
them repeatedly. In January, for example, on one night alone there were
actions against 15 Allianz offices
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/01/29/palestine-action-allianz-israel/>
across
Europe, with the campaign continuing to escalate throughout this year.

Within the past week, the Glasgow offices
<https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-action-target-complicit-companies-scotland>
of
Allianz was sprayed with blood-red paint, with the words ‘AZ DROP ELBIT,
IT’S GENOCIDE’ painted on the front of the building.
Palestine Action: stopping a genocide

A spokesperson for Palestine Action said:

While the governments of the world do nothing, the Israeli war-machine,
aided and abetted by Keir Starmer, are threatening the very existence of
the Palestinian people in Gaza, and escalating attacks against them in the
West Bank. The destruction of hospitals, the targeted murder of
journalists, and the wholesale slaughter of the civilian population has
become normalised.

We are in an urgent struggle to stop a genocide, and will target the
Israeli weapons makers to the best of our ability, along with all those who
assist them, such as Allianz, who would be well-advised to invest
elsewhere. We will not stop until every last Israeli weapons maker quits
these shores for good.

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