BDS Boston

Building the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in the Greater Boston area in solidarity with Palestine. 🇵🇸 SHUT ELBIT DOWN!

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

Elbit Systems is on the back foot trying to obfuscate their ties to Israel. It's a better time than ever to join an organization to eject elbit out of everywhere!

[VPol @VocalPolitics1]

Elbit Systems of America, the US subsidiary of Elbit Systems, the Israeli occupation’s largest weapons company, just rebranded as “Twenty-Six Defense."

￭ Just like how AIPAC has recently stopped giving direct campaign contributions and started funneling all their donations through shadow PACs, Elbit too seems to be trying to distance itself from its genocidal reputation and Israeli origins, while continuing genocidal business as usual.

By @CallaWalsh

[VPol @VocalPolitics1]

Elbit Systems, the Israeli occupation's largest weapons company, has rebranded its US subsidiary from "Elbit Systems of America" to "Twenty-Six Defense," in "a transparent attempt to distance themselves from Israel's image and obscure the toxicity of the Elbit name brand," according to BDS Boston (@BDSBoston).

￭ The rebrand comes after targeted direct action campaigns against Elbit, which permanently shut down the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility.

￭ "In an attempt to portray itself as 'more American,' Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, has rebranded its American subsidiary to Twenty-Six Defense. Elbit Systems is a globally evil company that is directly tied to crimes against humanity in Palestine and around the world. It is known for advertising their products as 'combat-proven' - using its decades of terror, murder, and surveillance of occupied Palestinians as a source of credibility and profit in the global market of war," BDS Boston wrote on social media. "Elbit Systems - you can run, but you can't hide. We will find you wherever you go, whatever you call yourself, until you are shut down everywhere!"

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Wow. Just like how AIPAC's rebranding, Elbit's US subsidiary rebranded as "Twenty-Six Defense," undoubtedly out of fear of being targeted by activists. They can run but they can't hide.

P.S. does this null their restraining order against me?

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

Elbit's rebrand to Twenty-Six Defense is a transparent attempt to distance themselves from Israel's image and obscure the toxicity of the Elbit name brand. Elbit Systems - you can run, but you can't hide. We will find you wherever you go, until you are shut down everywhere!

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

In an attempt to portray itself as "more American", Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, rebrands its American subsidiary to Twenty-Six Defense.

#FreePalestine #EjectElbit #BDS "

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

Elbit is a globally evil company, tied to crimes against humanity in Palestine and around the world. It advertises their products as "combat-proven" -using decades of terror, murder and surveillance of occupied Palestinians as a source of credibility in the global market of war.

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

UPDATE: THE GRAND JURY TRIAL SET FOR 11/4 HAS BEEN MOVED TO 11/18. ALL OUT TO SUPPORT GRAND RESISTANCE ON NOVEMBER 18TH

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Exclusive: Facing subpoenas, pro-Palestine activists refuse to testify in US DOJ's fishing expedition against jailed donor Fergie Chambers

They call their potential imprisonment “a cheap price to pay for the defense of our movement”

By @wyattreed13
https://t.co/ZLQuKDEZQZ

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THE FASCIST ADMINISTRATION. ALL OUT TO SUPPORT GRAND JURY RESISTANCE AND FIGHT FASCISTIC REPRESSION

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

COURT SUPPORT REQUEST
📍 55 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301
🕐 Nov 4 8:30AM

Two comrades, previously sentenced for their action against Elbit Systems in Merrimack NH, have been summoned by a grand jury in the Trump administration's latest wave against pro-Palestine activism.

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

Grand Juries have been historically used to try to break popular movements. Currently, pro-Palestine activists in Michigan and anti-ICE protestors in Minnesota are also facing Grand Jury Trials.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇦 🇵🇸 REPORT | Hundreds of Canadians, in what organizers described as a “people’s arms embargo,” took to the streets across the country on Thursday, to put suppliers for notorious Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems on notice: divest or face sustained public pressure.

Activists with the Arms Embargo Now coalition picketed and leafletted outside industrial facilities from British Columbia to Newfoundland, targeting more than 40 companies identified as suppliers, manufacturers, or logistics partners connected to Elbit, Israel’s largest weapons firm, and one that boasts of battle-testing its products in Gaza. They also launched a pressure campaign aimed at senior executives at dozens of the targeted companies, flooding them with emails. The message: Cut ties with Elbit now.

One target is TTM Technologies in Ontario, which has shipped millions of dollars’ worth of circuit boards to Elbit for use in precision-strike munitions. “Providing circuit boards for Elbit’s Lizard laser-guidance kits isn’t some distant or neutral business relationship,” says Haneen Ismail, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Arms Embargo Now. “A company like Elbit is a dedicated war machine, but many of its suppliers in Canada operate largely outside of public scrutiny while providing the components and technology it relies on. We are ending that anonymity.”

The movement has already seen significant victories. Last week, Montreal-based Elbit supplier Apollo Microwaves ended its contracts with the company after organizers with Arms Embargo Now pressed it to do so. And after campaigners targeted Scotiabank, Canada’s third-largest commercial bank and once Elbit’s largest foreign shareholder, it pulled its $500 million investment earlier this year. Elbit’s CEO later complained to the Israeli press that the divestment was the work of the damned Canadian public.

▪️By Christopher Ketcham (@cketchamwild) for Drop Site News

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

📣 @BostonGlobe honor your colleagues!

On Wednesday we joined @palyouthmvmt for a Press Conference to pay tribute to the martyred journalists of Gaza, and remind all journalists and news institutions they must speak and act against the systemic killing of their colleagues. 🇸🇩

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

7/10. Brigham & Women's Hospital. HCW4P, CIR and BDS Boston picketed with MGB nurses + homecare clinicians on Day 2 of their lock out by CEO Anne Klibanski + her board of billionaires, including Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet: continuing to prioritize warfare over healthcare.

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

As people living in the heart of empire, we must be held accountable to do all that we can to disrupt business as usual.

See you there!

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

🗓 5/30
🕙 1pm
📍 700 Boylston St

Join us for another picket against Capital One for its funding of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer.

Show up with noisemakers and mask up! See you there!!

#elbitout

[BDS Boston @BDSBoston]

Elbit Systems remains a key part of Israel's logistical slaughtering operation, and Capital One loaned up to $90 million to Elbit in the hopes of raking in some returns.