France has banned Israeli delegates, intermediaries, or companies from attending Eurosatory, the prestigious and largest defense exhibition in the world. The show is hosted every two years and boasts 1,700 exhibitors and over 60,000 attendees from over 150 countries.
The decision to ban Israel was based on protests from over 50 NGOs led by Palestinian NGO Al-Haq. They had been successful in getting the French courts to forbid Israel from having their own booth, but weren’t satisfied when they realized that many Israeli companies still had plans to attend.
The Pro-Palestinian NGOs said that they had been unsatisfied with the May 31 decision by the French Defense Ministry to ban Israeli stands, since several of the 74 Israel arms companies that had been set to attend the exhibition by being present at the stands of other companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates. They also sought to…
