{"id":42909,"date":"2026-04-01T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42909\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:41:36","slug":"people-against-genocide-once-again-target-elbits-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42909\/","title":{"rendered":"People Against Genocide once again target Elbit&#8217;s insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 March 2026, two activists from the group People Against Genocide (PAG) targeted the London headquarters of Chubb Insurance, as well as the offices of Sompo, owner of Aspen Insurance. They sprayed the front of the building with symbolic blood-red paint, before locking-on outside the front entrance.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth recent action by PAG. They have previously targeted both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2026\/03\/10\/people-against-genocide-take-action-at-chubbs-manchester-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2026\/03\/10\/people-against-genocide-take-action-at-chubbs-manchester-office\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775132547857000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2_oJWCW4kSAaj9MPzrpjS-\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Manchester<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/city-of-london-paint-protest-b1271508.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/city-of-london-paint-protest-b1271508.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775132547857000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ZwKEew1pvqfdrRObhWt3K\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">London<\/a>\u00a0offices of Chubb.<\/p>\n<p>UAV Engines<\/p>\n<p>Chubb insures UAV Engines, a subsidiary of Israel\u2019s biggest weapons company, <a href=\"https:\/\/diem25.org\/elbit-genocide-proven-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/diem25.org\/elbit-genocide-proven-systems\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775132547857000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ts8OhMbJqxYFBTKSA-BoN\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Elbit Systems<\/a>.\u00a0Elbit produce 85% of the Israeli military\u2019s killer drone fleet.<\/p>\n<p>UAV produce engines for Israel\u2019s drone fleet at their factory in Shenstone in Staffordshire. These include the R902(W) Wankel engine used in Elbit\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/projects\/hermes-multirole-high-performance-tactical-uas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/projects\/hermes-multirole-high-performance-tactical-uas\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775132547857000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ijx6nKGrUQ2Mv7R79fqUx\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Hermes 450 drone<\/a>, the same model used by Israel to kill seven aid workers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2024\/04\/04\/world-central-kitchen-drone-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2024\/04\/04\/world-central-kitchen-drone-strike\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775132547857000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Q5fuAJORpqFWIxjvwk5AF\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">World Central Kitchen<\/a>, including 3 British nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to action<\/p>\n<p>One of the activists locked-on outside the Chubb offices called on fellow activists to join them with flags, banners, and whistles. They said:<\/p>\n<p>We are here to shut down Chubb, the insurers of Elbit Systems, until they cut all ties.<\/p>\n<p>In the last month, we have seen whole families obliterated, thousands killed, and over thirty thousand injured across Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and the whole of West Asia. Israel announced its intention to ethnically cleanse almost one million people out of southern Lebanon, all operationally supported by Elbit Systems, who profit from every life lost.<\/p>\n<p>Those profits are guaranteed by Chubb, who insure their Shenstone factory here in Britain. The responsibility to drive Elbit out of our communities has never been more urgent.\u201d They then called on supporters to get trained in direct action tactics, and join the struggle to shut down Elbit.<\/p>\n<p>Without the mandatory Employer Liability Insurance provided by Chubb and Aspen, neither UAV Engines, nor Elbit themselves, could operate in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Global campaign<\/p>\n<p>Other actionists have targeted insurance companies in recent months, following the announcement of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/insurance-companies-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">global campaign<\/a> to disrupt an international \u2018economy of genocide\u2019. Previously, insurers Allianz and Aviva have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/skwawkbox\/2025\/12\/23\/insurers-pull-cover-for-israeli-firm-elbit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">ended their cover<\/a> of Elbit after sustained protest activity.<\/p>\n<p>PAG has previously targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/people-against-genocide-targets-11-hsbc-branches-over-elbit-investments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">HSBC branches<\/a> across the UK over their investments in Elbit Systems, as well as protesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/skwawkbox\/2026\/02\/26\/people-against-genocide-block-elbit-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Elbit sites<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 30 March 2026, two activists from the group People Against Genocide (PAG) targeted the London headquarters of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[240,1731,1730,5343],"class_list":{"0":"post-42909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chubb","8":"tag-chubb","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-palestine","11":"tag-protest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116329741426912714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}