PROTESTERS will target a Dundee factory over alleged links to the Israeli military.
Activists will march on the Smiths Interconnect site near Lochee, Dundee, on Wednesday to protest its parent company’s reported dealings with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
The parent company, Smiths Group, has applied for 33 export licences for military goods between 2008 and 2021, according to the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).
Smiths Interconnect, which has a factory in Dunsinane Avenue, Dundee, makes specialist electronic components for military and outer space use.
Demonstrators have targeted the site before in June and plan to march from the Mary Brooksbank statue on Lochee High Street to Smiths Interconnect. They will assemble at 12.30pm.
In a statement, organisers said: “[Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his government have never shown any remorse, pity, regret or hesitation to continue their campaign of annihilation against the Palestinians, unequivocally named as a genocide by the United Nations.
“While weapons of war continue to flow from the UK to Israel, demonstrators in Dundee will march from the Mary Brooksbank statue – an iconic figure who dedicated her life to standing up for the oppressed – to Smiths Interconnect.
“They want assurances that no components or expertise emanating from Dundee are being used in the illegal, ongoing genocide that they have been protesting against for the last 104 weeks.”
A Smiths Interconnect spokesperson said: "Smiths Interconnect Dundee has no involvement in the production of components which might be used in the Middle East conflict."
