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Overnight, activists have struck at five branches of insurance giant Allianz, using disruptive acts of direct action seeking to bring an end to their business relationship with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. In Glasgow, Croydon, Chelmsford, Datchet and Bishopsgate, Allianz premises have had their windows smashed, been been coated in blood-red paint, and daubed in the message ‘Drop Elbit’.

As their clients’ weapons are currently being used for genocide in Gaza [1], where thousands have been killed over the past month and hundreds of thousands are being starved, ‘Allianz Insurance Products Trust’ continues to provide Employers Liability Insurance to ‘Elbit Systems UK’. Without this insurance, Elbit could not operate in Britain, and could not manufacture the litany of weapons products which they export for military end use by Israel [2]. Allianz meanwhile remains a major institutional investor in Elbit [3], doubly profiting from their business of mass-slaughter in Palestine.

The campaign against Allianz was launched in October 2024, when 10 Allianz branches in Britain were hit [4], followed up with a co-ordinated wave of actions in January 2025 at 15 sites across Europe [5]. In the past week alone, actions at Allianz have struck at their branches in Rotterdam [6] and Berlin [7], and activists have occupied their offices in Bristol [8] and, last month, in London [9] to force them closed.

A Palestine Action spokesperson has stated:
“Allianz continues to provide services to Elbit, continues to hold Elbit shares is clear, because the genocide in Gaza remains profitable. Today’s actions and the campaign against Elbit is correcting from the externalities of Elbit’s business of slaughter. Actions will continue until Allianz drops Elbit as a clien

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NOTES TO EDITORS

If you would like any further information on Palestine action, please contact media@palestineaction.org

Palestine Action is a direct-action network of groups and individuals formed with the mandate of taking action against the sites of Elbit Systems and other companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, calling for all such sites to be shut down.

[1] https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3794
[2]https://caat.org.uk/data/companies/elbit-systems/
[3] https://fintel.io/so/us/eslt
[4] https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/08/activists-target-ten-allianz-offices-over-elbit-links/
[5] https://palestineaction.org/europe-allianz/
[6] https://x.com/Pal_action/status/1911740498634506546
[7] https://x.com/Pal_action/status/1912880933138477523
[8] https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/police-remove-palestine-action-protesters-building/
[9] https://realmedia.press/palestine-action-allianz/