Pro-Palestine demonstrators tried to put firm out of business

Eight pro-Palestinian demonstrators carried out a campaign of burglary and criminal damage against Israel’s largest arms firm to put the company ‘out of business’. Richard Barnard, 50, and Huda Ammori, the founders of Palestine Action, along with six others, all claim ‘lawful justification’ for activities directed against Elbit Systems’ UK arm in 2020 and 2021. Jurors heard a Palestine Action podcast in which Ammori referred to the ‘Nakba’ of Palestinians in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced….