Direct action group Palestine Action Éire (PAE) “took a hurl” to the facade of German insurance giant Allianz’s main office in Dublin on Tuesday November 4, wrecking windows and electrical equipment. During the action at 2:50am, the activists also painted a window with the words “Drop Elbit”. Allianz is alleged to be a sponsor of the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, though the insurance firm denies any connection. Elbit’s weaponry has been a key part of Zionist genocide in Palestine.

The arms company was extensively targeted by Palestine Action in Britain, prior to its proscription by a British state currently participating in the Gaza holocaust. Palestine Action had also effectively targeted another financial institution for aiding Elbit, with their campaign against Barclays leading to the bank selling off its shares in the genocidal arms firm. Palestine Action Éire are not outlawed by the Irish government, and are most famous for a previous action in which a US warplane was sprayed with paint at Shannon airport. The transport hub is routinely used as part of America’s ferrying of weapons to the Zionist entity. The activists involved are being hauled through the courts by the criminal Irish state, with further appearances only this week.

Allianz — a key part of the Zionist economy

In a press release sent to the Canary, PAE outline how Elbit:

…provide about 85% of the Israeli military’s weapons and vehicles…

They continue:

Additionally, the group highlights Allianz’s long history of owning stocks in the company. Currently they own about 2% of Elbit Systems.

The financial institution was also mentioned several times in Francesca Albanese’s report entitled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide. There they are named as directly raising money for the Zionist war machine via purchase of bonds through their subsidiary PIMCO, to the tune of $960 million. The report goes on to name them alongside Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions target Axa:

Global insurance companies, including Allianz and AXA, also invest large sums in shares and bonds implicated in the occupation and genocide, partly as capital reserves for policyholder claims but primarily to generate returns. Allianz holds at least $7.3 billion and AXA, despite some divestment decisions, still invests at least $4.09 billion in tracked companies named in this report.

In other words – they’re ploughing enormous sums into the genocide economy.

Their insurance policies also underwrite the risks other companies necessarily take when operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, thus enabling the commission of human rights abuses and “de-risking” their operational environment.

Again to sum up – ‘Israel’ is a volatile place due to its constant criminality, so insurers like Allianz take away some of the risk for anyone operating there. They’ll be standing ready to pay out if something goes wrong for someone they insure.

Allianz aided the Nazis, now they back their modern equivalent — ‘Israel’

The office raid in Dublin was intended to coincide closely with the renewal date for Allianz’s contract with Elbit, believed to be November 1. Other groups also targeted the German company, whose past includes heavy involvement in the Nazi regime of the 1930s and 1940s. A video on Real Media UK shows some of the actions across the world, including in Spain, France, Taiwan and Germany. At least 14 countries are believed to have participated. The actions against Allianz also coincided with the 108th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the brief letter that saw the British empire give away something they had no right to, handing Palestine over to Zionists as a “national home for Jewish people”.

Allianz have been the centre of a less dramatic but no less important Palestine-related campaign in Ireland. Those involved have been petitioning the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to drop its sponsorship agreement with Allianz, a deal which has existed for 30 years. The GAA are responsible for promoting, and administering competitions for, traditional Irish sports such as hurling and Gaelic football. Almost 800 members signed a petition calling for an end to the partnership, with the signatures handed over in August at the GAA’s main office in Croke Park, Dublin.

The sporting body had tried to avoid the question by passing itself off as apolitical, an absurd claim given the opening to its ‘Aims and Ethos’ chapter in its Official Guide states a clearly political goal of a united Ireland:

The Association is a National Organisation which has as its basic aim the strengthening of the National Identity in a 32 County Ireland through the preservation and promotion of Gaelic Games and pastimes.

Lead Gaelic sporting body set to drop Allianz as sponsor

The organisation has previously celebrated its role in resisting British imperialism, producing a cinematic advert featuring a depiction of players 100 years ago who defied a directive from their colonial oppressors. Obviously realising they can no longer maintain the charade around being apolitical (as no sport truly is), the organisation is currently reviewing the Allianz matter under its Ethics and Integrity Committee. This new committee was set up just this year, in large part to deal with what will likely be an ongoing endeavour to ensure the GAA doesn’t entangle itself in the vast web of Zionist-implicated companies.

County boards have started coming out against the German financial institution’s role in Gaelic sport, with Tyrone GAA saying this week that they back a call by their equivalents in Offaly to “begin the process of ending all commercial involvement” with Allianz. The writing is on the wall – or in this case, window – for the criminal German firm, just as it is for any collaborator with the Zionist entity. Unless they enjoy getting these impromptu makeovers at their lavish corporate premises, discontinuing all ties to the land theft project brutalising Palestine is no doubt the best option.

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By Robert Freeman

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