after staging a protest
They did a bit more than that:
While a diversionary group set off fireworks outside, spray-painted slogans such as “Shut Elbit Down” on the building’s facade, and threw red paint, the five main participants gained access to the laboratory and office spaces on the third floor through a side window. There, they deliberately destroyed computers, telephones, and sensitive laboratory equipment and measuring instruments. The activists filmed the action to share it on social media.
I don’t support the Israeli military industrial complex and their ongoing genocide by any means but the framing in this article seems purposefully misleading to me.
What’s especially unfortunate is that calling it a protest isn’t primarily a matter of downplaying things—it’s to miss the key, dramatic point: Their line of defense is not “we didn’t do it” or “you can’t prove it” or “we didn’t intend for things to go as they did”. Instead, what they say is: “We did it all, and we did it on purpose. The equipment was intended for a genocide, the German government has been allowing or even supporting it, protests did not help, therefore we were justified under German law to destroy part of these systems.” In order to judge whether this was indeed an act of legitimate defense of a third party (Nothilfe), the court may be forced to officially judge whether Israel has been conducting a genocide and whether the German government has been inactive or even complicit in it.
https://www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/gesellschaft/791/unrecht-und-strafe-10921.html
I also don’t think Germany sells entire tanks to Israel.
Important side note: anti-tank weapons are also being used for urban warfare
