Direct action targets Keysight Technologies over Israeli arms

From 5.30am on 21 January, three action takers from People Against Genocide visited the Keysight Technologies site at 610 Wharfedale Road, Reading. They targeted the company’s logistics fleet and mobile collaboration unit. Each of them climbed on top of a separate logistics van belonging to the electronics firm, to prevent their use in transporting parts for Israeli weapons. They also sprayed the vans with black paint.

American-owned Keysight produces electronic components for weapons which have been used against the civilian population in Gaza. It exports its products directly to the Israeli military, as well as supplying them to UAV Tactical Systems. UAV is a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons firm. Elbit manufactures over 85% of the Israeli military’s killer drone fleet and land-based equipment. Keysight also has business links to the French weapons giant Thales.

People Against Genocide targets Keysight Technologies

Because of its involvement in the Gaza Genocide, pro-Palestine activists have repeatedly targeted Keysight facilities. Most recently there was an action against Keysight’s Berkshire Headquarters, by People Against Genocide, in November 2025. This followed another action, a week earlier, targeting Keysight’s Edinburgh offices. The Autonomous Activist Group claimed responsibility for that action.

A spokesperson for People Against Genocide said:

Keysight are one of many companies in Britain, often foreign-owned, making rich profits from assisting in the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinian people. We will continue to target them until they stop supplying the Israeli war machine.

Keir Starmer is doing everything he can to crush protest, particularly when it challenges his Israeli pay-masters, and the private companies who are assisting in exterminating the Palestinian people. People Against Genocide are using direct action to impede the Israeli war-machine on British soil. Come and join us, get trained up to take direct action with Direct Action Training.

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