No Regrets for Being on the Right Side of History

In the early hours of September 8, 2025, in Ulm, Germany, five activists gained access to a branch of a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private defense contractor. They damaged office equipment while filming themselves. According to their own statements, they wanted to protest Germany’s arms exports to Israel and put a stop to them. None of them had a criminal record; all of them waited at the scene for the police to arrive. Since then, the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office has…