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        <h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Palestine Action targets Kent arms factory and Scotiabank offices in London</h1>June 17, 2024</div>

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        <div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-single-wrapper" tabindex="-1"><div><div><h3>Activists
 invaded Instro Precision, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, and blockaded a
 Canadian bank still invested in the Israeli arms company</h3><p>Palestine
 Action say that their activists targeted Instro Precision, a subsidiary
 of Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, and the offices of Canadian 
Scotiabank, which activists say has not completely divested from Elbit.</p><p>Instro Precision, which <a href="https://instro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">described itself </a>as
 a leading supplier of “support equipment for military and commercial 
electro-optical sensors”, had their Kent factory targeted overnight. 
Activists blocked entrances and others invaded the facory where thay 
began “dismantling technology, machinery and parts” involved in the 
“manufacture of scopes, sights, and targeting equipment for <a href="https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/11/Fact-sheet-re-Gaza-2023-11-14.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Israel’s</a> exterminationist military”, the group said in a press release.</p><p>Also
 targeted were the offices of Scotiabank in London, which Palestine 
Action continues to claims are “major investors in Israeli military 
production”. Ten activists locked-on at the entrances of the Bank’s HQ 
shutting the building down while others sprayed the building red as a 
“symbol of the Palestinian bloodshed” caused by the arms company. </p><img width="394" height="270" src="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image19.jpg?resize=640%2C439&ssl=1" alt="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;">Action at Scotiabank in London<p>The Bank of Nova Scotia, operating as “Scotiabank” had up to $500m in assets invested in Elbit until recently. After <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/01/17/palestine-action-strike-israeli-weapons-trade-facilitators/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pressure</a> from activists the Bank <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/scotiabanks-fund-unit-halved-stake-israeli-weapons-maker-elbit-filing-shows-2024-05-14/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">completely divested</a> from Elbit, yet its subsidiary asset management fund, the wholly owned “1832 Asset Management”, still holds<a href="https://fintel.io/so/il/eslt/1832-asset-management" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> over $230m in Elbit shares</a>, which would still make the parent company Elbit’s largest foreign shareholder.</p></div></div></div></div></div>
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