Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian protest network, formed in July 2020, that uses direct action tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. The group targets UK-based operations that provide weapons to Israeli occupation forces. Its main targets are UK factories of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. In their campaigns, Palestine Actionists have used protest and occupation of premises, which has sometimes resulted in participants being arrested.

Thales 5 Case

In June 2022, five actionists occupied the Thales’ weapons factory in Glasgow, and cost them over £1million. By doing so, they disrupted Scotland’s complicity with the colonisation of Palestine. On August 20th 2024, a Judge sentenced each of the actionists, bar one, to 12 months imprisonment, with the other being sentenced to 14 months.