PALESTINE ACTION covered Twickenham Stadium in blood red paint this morning, hours before the Defence IQ’s International Armoured Vehicles expo was due to commence. 

The event, which is marketed as “the world’s premier international meeting ground for all elements of the armoured community,” hosts representatives of Israel’s weapons trade, including largest weapons company, Elbit Systems Ltd, along with representatives of their British subsidiary Elbit Systems UK and the Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer, Rafael. 

Based in Haifa, Elbit is responsible for the manufacture of vast amounts of the Israeli state’s military technologies — including 85 per cent of its drones and land-based military equipment, all of its small-calibre ammunition, and an array of munitions, surveillance and targeting technologies, and other armaments.