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> “Before the genocide started, companies like Bisalloy were putting out glossy brochures about their trade with the Israeli military industry. This included sending armoured steel to companies like Plasan, which also supply parts to the settler militias,” Shoebridge, who attended the Wollongong picket, says.

> “Following the genocide there has been a desperate attempt by both the Albanese government and these weapons suppliers to muddy the waters. That was designed to hide the truth so that the two-way arms trade can continue behind closed doors,” he says.

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> Bisalloy’s chairman, David Balkin, defended the company’s relationship with Israel, criticising the protesters for disrupting operations. Protests have forced the company to move its past two annual general meetings online.

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> WFOP’s Rayan says Bisalloy’s refusal to end its contracts with Israeli companies “seems more ideological than financially driven”.

> Balkin is a prominent figure in Australian pro-Israel circles, having served as president of the Jewish Communal Appeal (JCA) in the late 2000s.

> In 2011, he and current-antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal stepped down from JCA’s executive committee, but both remain as honorary life governors.

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