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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-based organisation working to end the international arms trade. Nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. https://linktr.ee/caatuk
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No more lies, we need action.

❌ NO SCOTTISH TAXES FOR ARMS DEALERS! Join us at the Scottish Parliament next week to lobby and hold vigils. Write to your MSP to ask them to meet with us or share their views. More info: caat.org.uk/events/scott...

🇵🇸 HAPPENING NOW: In front of Parliament

STARVING CHILDREN IS A RED LINE 📍NOW outside of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster

NOW: A red line is forming around Parliament to demand this government STOP ARMING ISRAEL!

The only winners of more military spending are the arms dealers. We all lose when our money is allocated to killing and destruction, instead of investing in life.

‼️New IRR study warns of Europe's creeping authoritarianism with increased used of weaponry against racialised minorities ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK-based activists with the International Solidarity Movement have been arrested by the Israeli occupation and threatened with deportation. Dee and Susanne were in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, where the IOF and settlers have been escalating ethnic cleansing in recent months.

Israel is systematically destroying Gaza's healthcare system. The Israeli military is committing war crime after war crime, yet the British government continues to send arms to Israel and defends this genocide.

Research by @caatuk.bsky.social found that crucial components for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel to bomb Gaza are manufactured at dozens of sites in Britain. Join the regional protest in Sheffield at Forged Solutions, part of the F-35 supply chain, and demand an arms embargo on Israel!

The narrative that migrants as a "threat" is wrapped up in the collaboration between the border, surveillance, and arms industries. This dehumanisation wants us to ignore how the very companies providing weapons for war also profit from militarising borders.

There's always money for war.

Join us June 13th with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @ahmedalnaouq.bsky.social @franceskalbs.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social to discuss how we can break the downward spiral of militarisation, skyrocketing arms exports, and unaccountability for war crimes & genocide. 1/2

Just one week after Lammy declared he had suspended trade talks, the UK Trade Envoy to Israel is boasting about closer trade ties on a visit to Israel. Those speeches and statements were all smoke and mirrors to distract from Britain arming and supporting Israel. Despicable.

600 days of Israel's escalated genocide against the Palestinian people. Carried out with support from the British government.

Israeli forces are escalating raids and attacks on the occupied West Bank. Last night, they killed a young boy and arrested multiple people. End the occupation.

15% of the F-35 fighter jet - used to drop 2,000lb bombs on Palestinians in Gaza - is made in Britain. Get to know the company, sites, and types of components made here.

Israel has killed more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn. This is an escalation of genocide on full display, but this government refuses to stop arming Israel. We will never forget.

We demand that Israel is kicked out of DSEI, including a ban on Israeli arms companies, speakers and delegations attending the event: caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...

Stop the arms trade.

This September, Israeli politicians and arms dealers will be invited to buy and sell weapons in London.

Israel has killed 71 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn today. This government must take serious action with a full arms embargo, end to the surveillance flights, and sanctions on Israel now.

F-35 fighter jets are used to drop 2,000lb bombs on families in Gaza. We will never forget how this government created a deliberate loophole to continue supplying parts for Israel’s genocide.

No more statements, full arms embargo now.

Starmer's statement calling on Israel to let aid into Gaza means little when he is directly arming genocide. In September, Starmer will even welcome Israeli arms companies and politicians to buy and sell more weapons in London. We don't need empty statements, we need an arms embargo.

Yesterday, 22 countries signed a statement demanding Israel “allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately”.

Israel has killed 60 people in Gaza since midnight. If Starmer was serious about taking "concrete action" to stop Israel's crimes, then he should stop arming Israel and stop arming genocide.

Israel has destroyed or damaged 92% of homes in Gaza. This is a systematic attack on life, supported by the British government.

While the British government is in court this week over its deliberate loophole to supply F-35 parts for Israel to drop 2,000lb bombs on Gaza - there are seven other countries that also facilitate these death jets.

This Nakba Day, as Israel continues its horrific genocide against the Palestinian people, we recognise that the Nakba never ended. Today, as the UK is in court for supplying arms to Israel, we need to grow louder our demands for the UK to stop arming Israel.