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Testimony given to the Undercover Policing Inquiry this week has provided further details of systematic targeting against anti-arms trade campaigners, including Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).
The director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Ben Jamal, and vice-chair of the Stop the War Coalition, Chris Nineham, were yesterday convicted of public order offences at Westminster magistrate court, over a peaceful protest in January. CAAT condemns this latest attack on the right to protest, while arms companies responsible for arming genocide go
The value of UK “single individual” arms export licences issued in 2024 (the latest full-year figures) increased by 86% to reach a record £9.2 billion, with Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Qatar, and the United States being the top recipients. Campaigners decry the close relationship between the UK and American arms industries as evidenced in this new
A Declassified investigation has revealed that an Elbit owned subsidiary has sent dozens of drone components, including Watchkeeper engines, to Israel over the past 18 months. Advanced radar systems used by the Watchkeeper have also been exported to Israel by Thales. In September 2024 the Government
Civil society urgently demand UK Government ban imports of goods from Israel’s illegal settlements to protect against widespread involvement in money laundering 12.03.26: TODAY, 21 UK, international and Palestinian civil society organisations, including UK trade unions, wrote to the government to demand a total ban on imports of goods produced in
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
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
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