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To: Conor Murphy, Economy Minister
Come clean: Are NI-based companies providing arms to Israel?
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We demand that Conor Murphy comes clean on NI-based companies providing support to Israel.
Why is this important?
Invest NI has given £19.66 million pounds of public money to three companies based in Crumlin, Newtownabbey, Dunmurry and Castledawson that make parts for F-35 war planes - the very ones which are raining bombs down on Gaza.
Crumlin and Newtownabbey based company RLC Group, and Dunmurry based company RFD Beaufort Limited are named by Campaigns Against the Arms Trade as manufacturers of parts for the F-35 fighter jets. According to their website, Moyola Precision Engineering manufacture "airframe parts for F35" and received £5.67 million of taxpayers money from Invest NI with some of that allocated in 2023/2024.
And what’s more, the UK arms industry produces 15% of every one of those jets that are made, including the 39 being used by Israel’s to bomb Gaza.
There’s a real chance that our money has been used to support companies involved in aiding Israel. But here’s the thing - we don’t know for sure. Because, despite Freedom of Information requests and journalists asking questions for us - Invest NI won’t tell us if those companies are supplying Israel.
Economy Minister Conor Murphy, who is in charge of Invest NI, needs to come clean, and reveal if our money is being given to companies aiding the slaughter in Gaza.
Crumlin and Newtownabbey based company RLC Group, and Dunmurry based company RFD Beaufort Limited are named by Campaigns Against the Arms Trade as manufacturers of parts for the F-35 fighter jets. According to their website, Moyola Precision Engineering manufacture "airframe parts for F35" and received £5.67 million of taxpayers money from Invest NI with some of that allocated in 2023/2024.
And what’s more, the UK arms industry produces 15% of every one of those jets that are made, including the 39 being used by Israel’s to bomb Gaza.
There’s a real chance that our money has been used to support companies involved in aiding Israel. But here’s the thing - we don’t know for sure. Because, despite Freedom of Information requests and journalists asking questions for us - Invest NI won’t tell us if those companies are supplying Israel.
Economy Minister Conor Murphy, who is in charge of Invest NI, needs to come clean, and reveal if our money is being given to companies aiding the slaughter in Gaza.