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🚨FACULTY AT THE NEW SCHOOL HAVE SET UP THE REFAAT ALAREER SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT🚨 AFTER THE BRUTAL ARREST OF OVER 40 TNS STUDENTS, THE FIRST FACULTY ENCAMPMENT ON TURTLE ISLAND HAS BEGUN ‼️ ALL OUT TO TNS (63 5TH AVENUE) DISCLOSE, DIVEST, WE WILL NOT STOP WE WILL NOT REST 🇵🇸🥁‼️

📍Amsterdam Now that’s a barricade!

🌱 Palestine is everywhere reports: Autonomous action during the Day of Rage in NYC today. #escalate4gaza Via pal_actionus

🚨CALL TO ACTION: Flood Elbit System’s account in the comments section on Twitter/X! 🚨 Elbit has blocked Pal Action US’s account, but they can’t block all of us! Help us by flooding the comments on this and similar posts where Elbit Systems openly promotes their weapons used by IDF in the mass genocide of Palestinians. This post features a news story covering IDF and Elbit’s “Iron Sting” in the so-called “Israel-Hamas War.” Elbit publicly boasts online that its technology makes it possible to more easily hit targets and therefore “minimizing collateral damage.” But we know this isn’t a war—this is a genocide and ethnic cleansing. We know that Elbit Systems technology isn’t being used to “minimize collateral damage” in any way. In fact, IDF is using Elbit’s weapons and advanced mortar systems to “pinpoint accuracy when engaging targets” to mass murder Palestinians by blowing up their hospitals, mosques, schools, and refugee camps. Don’t let them continue to hide in plain sight in conjunction with mainstream corporatized media, which continues to platform Elbit Systems and promote the ongoing genocide. Call them out in the comments and help us spread this information far and wide ⤵️⤵️⤵️ https://x.com/ElbitSystemsLtd/status/1722280435496190414?s=20

🚨NATIONAL MASS DIRECT ACTION: December 14 in Cambridge, MA. We will make it the first Elbit Systems of America location to permanently shut down. Come from near and far. Info about transport, affinity groups sign-up, & international calls to action coming soon.

❗️PALESTINE ACTION TRAINING Our comrades at Palestine Action UK are hosting a direct action training on Zoom on November 22 and 29. We encourage all folks to attend and learn from their experience 👇 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdO-tqzMvH9d8k8uEP-SLHI960YVU718i#/registration

🚨 STOP THE CENSORSHIP! Google has disabled our interactive target maps, but the map images from this thread still list and display locations for Elbit Systems, their subsidiaries, and primary investor, BNY Mellon. And we’ll make another map 🖕 https://twitter.com/Pal_ActionUS/status/1725646076437524614

🚨 The Real News interviews founding members of Palestine Action US & UK: https://therealnews.com/meet-the-activists-fighting-zionism-with-direct-action With each passing day, more Israeli bombs are falling on Gaza. Over a million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes. The world is bearing witness to a genocidal military campaign to clear out Gaza once and for all. As leaders in the West continue to stand by Israel’s outrageous crimes, activists and people of conscience around the world are using direct action to take matters into their own hands and disrupt the war machine themselves. Palestine Action is one such group that is strategically targeting direct disruptive actions at production sites of Elbit Systems Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Elbit Systems is an Israel-based weapons technology and defense company supplying the Israeli military with the instruments of sophisticated carnage whose deadly force is being unleashed upon Palestinians as we speak. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Fergie Chambers, Max Geller, and Calla Walsh of Palestine Action. 🧵HIGHLIGHTS: We’re an affinity network. So it’s not like us as the folks who were the founding organizers are coordinating everything everyone does or telling people to go break the law somewhere. We’re an affinity network. We share ideas, we share an affinity for direct action and an opposition to the occupation, and specifically this ongoing genocide. So people have come up in that network, and at least half a dozen times that Cambridge location has been targeted in one way or another. And this is what we’re really asking, or what we’re hoping for is that people take up these tactics in regional chapters everywhere in the country where Elbit is, that we develop focused targeting of other targets, especially west of the Mississippi where Elbit is not, but focus targets. Because if we just hit Raytheon and Boeing and BlackRock and The New York Times and every other day, we’re not mounting a strategic campaign. Again, people are using the language of “shut it down” a lot, which, in my experience, really started around the Ferguson moment about 10 years ago, that let’s shut it down because people were shutting down commerce to shed light on police violence. In the movement since then, we hear “shut it down” every time someone holds a sign up. And it’s valiant to go into places to harass senators, to list names. But in the end, we’re still not really challenging power in a direct way that, as Max illustrated, is affecting their operations, affecting their bottom line, affecting their ability to process the war machine and make money off of it. So we’re really hoping, without even giving our opinion on the strategic or political developments that should or shouldn’t happen with the US government, we’re saying we want to take very direct material action against the complex that enables this genocide and the US empire broadly. So it’s not just one action, and it’s not just one type of action, but it’s action that’s meaningful, and it’s action that is bringing into focus why we’re doing the action, and not the risks being taken by the people doing the actions, not the legal battles they get into. That’s not the story. We’re comfortable. We should be less comfortable. And that’s the way we see this. .....I think the most important point to highlight is that Elbit’s stocks have been dropping consistently since Oct. 7, while every other major defense contractor’s stocks are skyrocketing, and that is because of the relentless direct action campaign. Every time we shut down a factory, even for a few hours, it costs Elbit time, money, and resources. Even if we’re a few people throwing paint at a building, the top executives of Elbit are freaking out when that happens, especially when, as happened in the US a few days ago, three locations in different states are hit by different groups all in one night." READ FULL ARTICLE: https://therealnews.com/meet-the-activists-fighting-zionism-with-direct-action

🚨Protesters in NYC are currently blocking the entrance of Bank of NY Mellon, an underwriter for Israel weapons company Elbit Systems. BNY Mellon claims to be committed to socially responsible investment, but invests over $13 million in genocide profiteer Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company. Israel is using Elbit drones, bullets, technology, and internationally-banned white phosphorous to commit genocide against Palestine right now. BNY Mellon has been investing in Elbit since 2013 and had a 22% share increase over the last quarter. BNY Mellon is also the biggest enabler of private donations to the Israeli Occupation Forces in the world. It manages the Friends of the Israel “Defense” Forces (FIDF) Donor Advised Fund, which allows donors to “adopt a brigade,” “adopt a battalion,” and make direct donations for Zionist war criminals to mass murder Palestinians. Palestine Action is leading an international direct action campaign to #ShutElbitDown, including Elbit's biggest investors like BNY Mellon. Follow us everywhere @pal_actionUS. https://x.com/AshAgony/status/1725496705984893172?s=20

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🚨 PALESTINE ACTION LAUNCHES #SHUTELBITDOWN US TARGET MAP: tinyurl.com/elbitmap 🧵 Read our statement: Why Target Elbit? Every hour, we receive thoughtful, well-aimed suggestions or inquiries about alternate targets for direct action: political offices, Embassies, NGOs, other weapons companies, intersections, etc., all of which have clear ties to the Zionist occupation of Palestine, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is right and just to rebel and act boldly in all places and moments, with all tactics, without a doubt. The more chaos ensues in the halls and courtyards of the normalizers and genocidaires, the better. But focus in targeting, from a strategic perspective, is the most effective route, which is why our campaign is singularly focused on Elbit Systems, Israel’s *largest* weapons producer. Palestine Action US has been given the privilege of carrying the banner of one of the Western world’s most successful grassroots direct action campaigns. Palestine Action UK, founded over three years ago by a Palestinian-Iraqi woman, has successfully shut down two of Elbit’s UK locations, permanently, and got HSBC to divest from Elbit. Their pressure has escalated over the years into a constant, relentless campaign, to the point where we see disruptions at Elbit in the UK nearly every day. Since October 7th, that pressure has only grown, and also exploded into the US, Canada, Australia, and everywhere Elbit is headquartered. In that time, while other weapons firms’ profits have skyrocketed, Elbit shares have taken a nosedive. If one wishes to help build a city, one must first build a house, so others might see how it was built. Like other historic campaigns which have isolated the enablers of injustice, we start with Elbit, we shut down their operations, and we strike fear in the hearts of their staff and their investors. Once Elbit Systems of America has been vanquished, we will have a replicable model for targeted direct action, which might be used to target every single conspirator in the occupation of Palestine and the subjugation of the colonized world. Further, we absolutely uphold the necessity of mass demonstrations, marches, and softer forms of direct action. These are all elements of the elaborate tapestry of resistance, but marching alone isn’t enough. Thousands have been arrested in the US for civil disobedience since Oct 7; most of these arrests have been purely symbolic. Imagine if these bodies were blockading arms shipments, dismantling weapons companies, and actually threatening capital. Power has shown it doesn’t move, even when millions have taken the streets, unless their profits are directly affected, or ruling class fear abounds. Beware of those who wish to co-opt the language of Direct Action for the benefit of their own opportunism and brand-building. Beware of “Shut it Down,” actions which are little more than theatrical performances, meant to contain the revolutionary instinct. For those who don’t live near a primary Elbit Systems location, there ARE targets near you. Bank of New York Mellon is Elbit System’s primary investor, along with being the fiscal sponsor for the Friends of the IDF, a non-profit which allows US citizens to materially support the Zionist Occupation Army. We have officially put Bank of New York Mellon on notice as a target of Palestine Action, and they are in major cities across the country and across the globe. Use this map to find Elbit Systems or Bank of New York Mellon locations near you, connect with Palestine Action US, and build an affinity group today. Together, we become ungovernable, Together, we defeat the Zionist beast, beginning with Elbit Systems. RESHARE MAP & STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CztlcVXOsTW/?img_index=1 Twitter: https://x.com/Pal_ActionUS/status/1725180401335878135?s=20