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Israel has used the F-35 jet throughout the genocide in Gaza, as well as in airstrikes against Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter confirms the number of flight hours Israeli pilots have on the F-35 “is greater than that of all the pilots of the other foreign countries that
19 February 2026 – The Public Interest Law Centre (PILC), with the support of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), has today submitted a detailed complaint to the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15). The complaint asks SO15 to open a criminal investigation into four current and former British directors of Elbit Systems UK Ltd for possible
Coming together in solidarity to resist the government's latest attempts to repress our right to protest.
There are striking similarities between the exaggerated threats outlined in these documents with the justifications relied upon by this government to target protesters today.
In the letter, led by Steve Witherden MP, Parliamentarians told Secretary of State Business and Trade Peter Kyle, they were “extremely concerned” by the Government’s apparent move towards “unblocking” the arms licenses to Israel it suspended in September 2024 and the transfer of new F-35s from a British air base. On 12th January 2026 in
Their resistance should inspire all of us to continue the fight against the companies complicit in genocide and to refuse to submit to state repression.
We, as civil society organisations campaigning to hold the government accountable to international law and UK rules on arms exports, are appalled by the Government’s movement towards unblocking arms licenses to Israel. The Government’s position was already untenable, temporarily suspending approximately 30 of 350 arms licenses to Israel, amounting to only
On 12th November the Court of Appeal refused Al-Haq/GLAN permission to appeal a High Court judgment from June dismissing their application for judicial review of the exemption, or “carve-out”, made by the Labour government to allow the UK to continue supplying F-35 combat aircraft components to
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