Aufsatz(elektronisch)#110. Januar 2011
Campaigning against Israel's arms suppliers
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 85-91
ISSN: 1741-3125
In a landmark case, defendants on trial for conspiracy to commit criminal damage to the premises of a UK factory supplying military components to the Israeli army, during Israel's assault on Gaza ('Operation Cast Lead'), were finally acquitted. Their defence, that, by decommissioning the manufacture of arms components destined for Israel, they had acted lawfully to prevent war crimes, was upheld. The background to the case, to the police operation surrounding it, and its progress through the court is examined here.