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<p
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style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">Barclay’s latest reports
show the bank no longer has any
shares in Israel’s biggest
weapons producer, Elbit Systems
and lobbying giant APCO
Worldwide announce they’ve
dropped them too. </span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">In the face of the Genocide
in Gaza, over the past year, act</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">ionist</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">s have undertaken 54
actions against Barclay’s
premises, smashing windows,
covering them in blood-red
paint, and attacking cash
machines. Many of these actions
shut the branches down for
weeks, escalating the cost of
doing business with Elbit, and
hitting the only thing Barclay’s
care about – their profits. </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">Following the actions and
community mobilisation, </span><span
style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;"><a
href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.lmpSTrE-G07FKUPTdpC9IXsUcdarpKZHJmpSZvfqtuRGzfp13xpSQ9EVCGKkQoewexLBDnFzGbJBZ003P5avcAkcXqThWsEOwbOoVCUhojFfxtNEBG5wso7KjH4rob3DkOZT2AIJQEDQNZCiucCt9LPegVCaWCxvEAyQ3wb4J_UiuvtU1fC5vegULUAqjdRE-6jOcFzWTwuTXfZCFIUxce3AZYyWm67yoytJcxf8bG02DtAPAmYyEz4MIfo6SgRC1lU-9zD-1uIKziDq72we1R5efB7p6TIcdo-m_xHsU-TRM-spuDjyzfTU4j2RuL7K5NEj7DhfFB6-4b7CrzKEgA/4b3/dxB-heOQSmmeGExcxOQudg/h0/h001.ISCnvY8AITeQakVTffoLT6fCRoUbJ3wd5U2Dzr3VfVc"
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bank has sold off all of its
16,345 Elbit shares</a></span></span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">, worth over $3,400,000.</span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">Elbit themselves are </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">feeling the impact</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">, with two of their weapons
factories </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">forced to shut down,</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"> as a direct result of
being targeted by Palestine
Action. As the tide turns
against them, and their direct
involvement in Genocide becomes
more widely known, they have
been </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">relying on </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">lobbying firms to mislead
and manipulate on their behalf.
APCO Worldwide are a huge
international firm of
publicists, whose tentacles
cover half the globe, but after
representing them for at least 9
years, they have now ditched
Elbit as a client, because of
their targeting by Palestine
Action.</span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">APCO were first targeted by
Palestine Action on </span><a
href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.lmpSTrE-G07FKUPTdpC9IXsUcdarpKZHJmpSZvfqtuRKix837tfZoEP3VLtBYedfrdxQcGNPVe3Zh0POglU90y1FkMQNTV763N0dW2S_A2p17V44mXdcZEWM2xWyRvNH6JH6_QfOSZMS_Tlsu-vArIjQ-38Q1dG2CmQzQxTjqkiDdJQpGJn5iu-QwDMIeTm9H1LMFyG8cJxd4MXstbV8bfEE22C6BpzW3WrZJrbfOKc4zeanwz5tKyZNiMjMpgBeb2NAYe5xUTMUbLc03F8dZ21CZyReHvu_3DW4GvEBECCSVS8-R3zdLC4vV1ut-DgrRVH1eGQawQKtFPRUWzO2pg/4b3/dxB-heOQSmmeGExcxOQudg/h1/h001.Nv8Y320AHhCt2VhegFNJ0GtTjLbE3iA9dRnzP9k3wjI"
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style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;">September
3</span></span><span
style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;"><sup>rd</sup></span></span><span
style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;"> 2024</span></span></a><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">, when activists plastered
the front of their London HQ
with blood-red paint, and
locked-on to block the entrance.
Videos of the action reached
millions of people, highlighting
APCO’s role in the Gaza
Genocide. A few days later, as a
direct result of the action, </span><span
style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;"><a
href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.XaF8mXqsA6b2dSPmhsleMV8lUc774T0Vp1MXj3XEviRuHGT8oZ3oJpncbFaBmKt73WTaLNiDzo36toLOtkvybna0YPWO0H75_2EQnlTStBW8_FV2d7vNJ3PHUx3RDOrkzLhYW8PBnQYUbs048JmYEtymSJ27AqjpsXc3Dkaldayw-UaYldYDjCGpDAPsw82Jp_Y0Si7OXbFxoa0247RYIy5ZVTh3HL220pr6CBt-wZ3QdVwzEZLu0pz2EvhplkCFvIxH7uEVXovOAqGG9ChCoQPLIuRctLhKLr45aAWCqkmKpXieFVw-WSokbJhFYvj5TVZIrJinh9bflCsAlx2cxMJt8LDClVb1JB-eborYlGpOtHDASxnUjU7SW-ZRWd23k9IXBilAp0fu1mFpjB7SD70TNmJDIdig7nGQSncq3B-vY9R-v8QSAIY_C6hYLHc4iu2tKT6Yq3oJRgi484c05Q/4b3/dxB-heOQSmmeGExcxOQudg/h2/h001.SItFCsoQenR16VUk_n_MlFgtAnLfvi2KGe3eP6FCyLI"
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disputes</a></span></span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"> within the global company
surfaced, as employees in APCO’s
thriving Gulf offices, many of
whom work on behalf of
governments in the region, began
to question why the company were
representing Israel’s biggest
arms manufacturer.</span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a
href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.XaF8mXqsA6b2dSPmhsleMdwILVhgQPSU8wwDHPbcm95x_cupe0xMP1wM5tLuX4YS8S7nnoXn2L5xpYL-DuydBmqgez2xQSXED6OT2lqi-BOqP-C_ArclDsi9glqbfF2ovoM2_LsXdjicN_YKy77eglVjaYizzC-mFUNjnei6MVEkYHIWZvXuR7Nt9TMVnZv57nEbyYAfpNYXnfx9xW0BJDspwcvuPOLdFDOn2e8wezxesCYBH6CnA7cW4ibAjqIPITcYJBQDVXtK4N5e4JaQmzL4UxnZNUeKmv16wGjUnm4N5jIPSE9O3Et4_WLlIgPWCo8hUufwbN3jnnIcfyD53koLQmb0dYUKlv6ViACPflo/4b3/dxB-heOQSmmeGExcxOQudg/h3/h001.yuouvvgUxkl5oAluwA4dprwl8lHfwBsUESeszbKDrnI"
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style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;">On October
25</span></span><span
style="color: #0000ff; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="text-decoration-line: underline; line-height: 19.6px;"><sup>th</sup></span></span></a><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">, Palestine Action were
back at APCO’s London
headquarters, once again sp</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">r</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">aying the building with red
paint, and also locking-on, to
close it down for several hours.
APCO had clearly had enough, and
shortly after, they were
describing Elbit as a former
client. </span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">APCO </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">a</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">re a huge, international
lobbying firm, and have
Conservative Friends of Israel’</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">s Honorary</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"> President, Lord Stuart
Polak, sitting on their
International Advisory Council.
However, a lobbying firm like
APCO certainly know that there
IS such a thing as bad
publicity, and that it is not in
their interests to represent a
Genocidal arms manufacturer, nor
to risk facing concerted direct
action. </span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">These are </span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;">significant steps forward,</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"> both for Palestine Action,
and for the tactics we embrace.
</span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19.6px;">Through a
focused strategy, direct
action has achieved multiple
successes and forced the
hands of many complicit
institutions.</span></span></span></p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p
style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19.6px;"><strong>Palestine
Action will remain
committed and focused to
the task at hand and
target any and all
institutions and
businesses which enable
Israel’s biggest weapons
firm to ma</strong></span></span></span><strong><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19.6px;">i</span></span></span><span
style="color: #000000; line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="line-height: 19.6px;"><span
style="background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19.6px;">ntain their
genocidal operations. </span></span></span></strong></p>
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