Belgian activists from the ‘Stop Arming Israel’ campaign group raided buildings of the defense company OIP on Monday, reportedly causing almost a million euros’ worth of damage. Destroyed equipment means a new delivery of military equipment will be delayed by “at least a month,” according to CEO Freddy Versluys, which is a fairly successful result for the protesters…
… except that OIP has not made defence systems for Israel for 20 years. Versluys explained that “we do not sell anything to Israel, they have destroyed vehicles for Ukraine.”
OIP was likely targeted because its parent company, Elbit Systems, is Israeli-owned. But the work of this “extreme left-wing militia,” as Belgian defence minister Theo Francken put it, has simply delayed the delivery of tanks that would have been used in the war against Russia. This, said Versluys, is “the only thing these ‘Hamas sympathisers’ have achieved with their action.”
If these activists are anything like their leaders in Brussels—who slate Israel’s wars against Hamas terrorists and an Islamist regime while apparently pining for a never-ending conflict in Ukraine—they will be sorely hurt by their slip-up.
Journalist Johan Op de Beeck also complained that the fact rioters were able to inflict such a great amount of damage in the first place showed “the arm of the law was hanging limply again.”
There were around 100 rioters, all wearing white overalls and face masks.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
