Chubb offices in Glasgow and Manchester disrupted

On 13 July, activists disrupted Manchester and Glasgow offices housing Chubb Insurance. It was part of a coordinated campaign to pressure genocide-complicit corporations to sever ties with apartheid Israel.

Campaigners believe that Chubb Insurance offers Employers’ Liability Insurance to UAV Engines Limited. UAV is a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, which arms the Israeli occupation with 85% of its weapons.

Palestine Resistance Collective (PRC) occupied the Manchester office lobby with banners and a model of Elbit Systems’ quadcopter drone.

Meanwhile, Mothers Against Genocide Scotland held a family-friendly demonstration outside the Glasgow office with banners and music, engaging with the public as they passed by.

As workers arrived for the day, they had to walk through the protests and confront their corporation’s role in genocide. Some reportedly appeared shocked.

Chubb under pressure

In the last few months, Chubb has also faced numerous direct action hits across the country. Actionists have locked on outside, broken windows and covered buildings in red paint.

Last year, campaigners claimed victory when Allianz and Aviva stopped providing Employee Liability Insurance to Elbit, following sustained protest activity. Since Chubb took on this role, it has become the focus of many groups who believe sustained protest activity will again force the insurer to sever ties.

A member of Palestine Resistance Collective, who coordinated the action in Manchester, stated:

Isreal is expanding its plans of systematic land theft and murder at a never seen before scale. Whilst a myth of a ceasefire exists, Chubb Insurance is in the background drooling at the sight of money to be made off the bombs, missiles and drones dropping on tents.

Chubb Insurance will learn the hard way, akin to its cousin corporations, Allianz, Aviva and AXA who were forced to abandon their genocidal ventures.

Andrew Taylor for Boycott Bloody Insurance explained:

Chubb is profiteering from the ethnic cleansing happening in Gaza and the West Bank. Its insurance enables Elbit Systems to continue to battle-test its weapons on Palestinian civilians.

Research by Boycott Bloody Insurance uncovered that Chubb maintains a high position in terms of underwriting the risk of weapons manufacturers with ties to the genocide. Chubb has achieved the worst possible score for any insurer across a variety of key issues.

This includes insuring companies such as Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, and multiple suppliers of the F-35 fighter jet parts, which are also used by the occupiers to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in their native land.

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