An Israeli arms company that is set to enjoy more than $900 million in Australian taxpayer funds is heavily involved in Israel’s suppression of Palestinians and its maintenance of apartheid, has been previously banned for producing cluster munitions, and has recently been banned by Australia’s ally Japan.
The ABC’s Andrew Greene today revealed Elbit Systems has won a $917 million contract to supply systems for the Australian Defence Force’s Infantry Fighting Vehicles. As Greene noted, the ADF in 2021 began stripping Elbit systems out of ADF equipment due to serious security risks the ADF believed the systems posed.
At the time, Elbit was also on the Future Fund’s list
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