27-05-2025
Pro-Palestine activists target business over weapons firm ties
A business in Glasgow has been vandalised by pro-Palestine activists for allegedly supplying services to arms manufacturers.
Protesters from Palestine Action Scotland targeted Castle Precision Engineering in Glasgow's Southside by covering it in red paint on Monday afternoon.
Members from the group said in a statement that the engineering company works closely with the firm Leonardo, who manufacture and supplies weapons to the Israeli military.
In a statement, Palestine Action Scotland said: 'Israel's overt goal of exterminating and displacing Palestinian life is made possible by facilities like this one.
'Vital parts are distributed to assembly lines in Scotland to make the planes, drones and weapons that are slaughtering children as you read this.
'By targeting one of their suppliers, Castle Precision Engineering, we are directly responding to calls from Palestine to disrupt the chain of arms from Scotland to Israel.
'We're ordinary local residents taking direct action against the bloody supply chain enabling Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Anyone as horrified by the atrocities Israel is committing could do exactly as we have done. As long as complicit companies try to operate from within our communities in Glasgow, they will remain a target.
'While our governments attempts to publicly decry Israel's actions and shift the blame in the face of mounting public and legal pressure, it actively supplies the flow of arms that makes these crimes possible. Marches and petitions are not sufficient. It is our collective responsibility to cut off at its source.'
According to Castle Precision Engineering's website, the firm offers defence components, including the manufacture of aircraft, radars, missiles, lasers, and torpedoes.
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