SIAE 2025 : israel’s apartheid industrialists

This Monday morning, June 16, 2025, the official opening day of the International Air Show, when I arrived in Hall 3 at 7:30 a.m., I was surprised to see that the stands of UVision and Elbit Systems were surrounded by a black canvas. But I didn't worry, because I thought it was because there was an expected surprise and the exhibitors wanted to reserve the contents for an announcement at the opening of the show scheduled at 09:00.

the wall of shame !!

Not surprisingly at all, and we finally learned that it was at the request of the French government that these stands of Israeli industrialists, as well as the pavilion of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (SIBAT), had been locked up and that a web of segregation had been laid around, ultimately quarantining the Israeli exhibitors.

It's amazing! Two years ago, during the previous SIAE, the Israelis were banned from the fair but, following the legal challenge, were finally allowed to exhibit their wares at the last moment, embarrassing them to show their materials.

This year, it's the other way around. They were told to come and, at the last moment, the French government yielded to pressure from some pro-Palestinian organizations to indulge in this affront and boycott in the eyes of the international community.

The reason given for invisibilizing the top five Israeli industrialists was the display on their stands of offensive weapons, not just defensive weapons.

To say this is to show a complete lack of knowledge of the armaments and duality of most of the effectors and products presented at the 2025 trade fair. So this is enormous hypocrisy!

missiles by mbda

Why, then, is the Rafale, with its range of missiles and other bombs, presented at the official stand of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and at Dassault Aviation, when in fact this wonderful aircraft is a “combat proven” fighter bomber allowing the deep attack?

Why are Leonardo and Boeing presenting their helicopters with machine guns? To look good? And how many more on the 2025 show?

rafale

But the presence of Israeli industrialists would have made it possible to try to decipher the situation that this small country - which has been suffering for the past five days from the attack of hundreds of Iranian missiles and rockets - can the Israeli Iron Dome last long to defend itself against these attacks?

helicoptere by leonardo

Did the Iron Dome finally work well by neutralizing the vast majority of Iranian missiles?

Did the Israelis finally come to grips with the saturation of their space through Iranian attacks, and did they demonstrate that ground-to-air salvos and battery-recharge constraints worked properly, or that the system needed to be improved further?

What is extraordinary about this apartheid tale of Israeli industrialists is that the GIFAS, the organizer of the Paris Air Show, will pass for anti-Semitic when it is the French government that demonstrates its anti-Zionist policy every day.

The French government is already boycotting the Russian Federation and its allies’ presence at the show, despite being one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of aircraft and weapons. Now it’s the turn of the Israelis to be boycotted and how!

If this continues, the Paris Air Show will be a small regional trade show and not a large international trade show.

Alain Establier

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