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Activists break into Leicester factory owned by Israeli firm Elbit Systems (www.middleeasteye.net)
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April 24, 2026

According to media group The Aftershock, the activists used ladders to climb over razor-wire fencing to enter the premises.

After occupying the roof, they drilled holes into it and subsequently abseiled into the building.

The Aftershock reported that the ceiling of the clean room, where Israeli drone parts are reportedly made, was broken. It said that such contamination of the clean room could knock it out of use for some months.

One of the activists involved said: “We are sick and tired of our government’s collaboration in this genocide that Israel is committing on the Palestinian people."

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[–] 15 points 6 months ago

Heros

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Bravo for the activists!

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    And they will face more consequences than the genocidal fucks in Israel, what a great world we live in

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Burn the building down

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    [–] 90 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Well done those people. Not easy to do in authoritarian and Zionist Britain.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i'd like to congratulate them on renaming themselves

    they passed the test so many others have failed

    they have now ruined that name of course

    so what do we do, people?

    probably come out in protest for People Against Genocide knowing that diverse crowd

    don't do it - use a different name

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    • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    Heroes

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    Abseiled? Someone brought out the thesaurus for this one

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    The benefits of not living somewhere that’s dumbed-down the language to a series of woops and y’alls.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Quite the supercilious response pal

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    And with a superfluous and grammatically incorrect hyphenation, to boot!

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    In the US it's generally called rappelling - abseiling is derived from the german term, but it's seldom used in the states.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I don't know if it's just a me thing, but I think of rappelling as being against a surface, while if you do it in the open air it's abseiling (though you could call it abseiling against a surface too).

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Their brains are too busy trying to understand the farenheit scale and using the imperial system.

    Edit: these cunts have a worse sense of humour than the Germans. I look forward to the fall of their empire tbh.

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I hope that isn’t one of the activist’s blood all over the place

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    [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    More legal and ethical than the whole of the purpose of the company - no issue with this

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Can't wait for Yvette Cooper to decide this is "terrorism" as well

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Love this guys

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I have found 3 sources reporting on this:

    • Canary
    • Middle East Eye
    • Daily Mail

    2 of them routinely post fake news and I’m not familiar with Canary too much tbh. Take it as you will.

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