Antinuclear

MOBILISE AGAINST THE F35s!

MOBILISE AGAINST THE F35s!

U.S. OUT! CANCEL AUKUS! CLOSE PINE GAP!

WAGE PEACE invites allies and collaborators to a week of action against the F35 genocide jet on the unceded lands of this continent, from 27th March to 2nd April, 2026. (NB Mobilisations never start on the day they say!)

The F35 ‘genocide jet’ is made by the US and the world’s biggest weapons company, Lockheed Martin. The Israeli F35 genocide jets can not fly without Australian replacement parts.  

Managed by Lockheed and on US orders, at least 71 packages of F35 parts have been sent from Sydney to Israel. Parts stored at the genocide jet ‘sustainment’ facility at Williamtown RAAF base, just north of Newcastle, were loaded onto commercial Thai Airways passenger flights (WTF!), then forwarded to the Israeli Airforce base at Nevatim.

Turns out, parts produced in Australia can be requisitioned by the US at any time to serve US — and Israeli interests. No matter where F35 parts are made, the US owns them and Lockheed manages them. It’s been like this for more than 10 years. According to Defence Minister Richard Marles, ‘Australia is an F35 country’. We are owned and directed by the disordered, cruel, unjust mess that is the USA and their weapons corporations. The USA’s genocide is our genocide. We are dragged into Israel’s cruelty.

Mass mobilisations of Australian people have said we do not consent to complicity in Israel’s genocide. We have demanded that the Department of Defence and all the companies involved refuse to supply F35 parts or any other weapons to Israel. Yet the supply continues.

CAN WE WIN?

We have wins already!

In a single week in October, 18 actions were held against the weapons industry in 6 cities. Then, in early November, the Department of Defence emailed weapons suppliers in Australia ‘suggesting’ they cancel or refuse further contracts with Israel.

Our friends in the Netherlands have had a win. In October 2025 Supreme Court judges gave the Dutch government six weeks to review its policy on export licenses; the decision was made in a matter of hours: a continuation of the arms embargo from 2024 – no F35 parts.

Supplying a genocide is against International Law and Australia’s own weapons regulations. This acknowledgement by governments that arming Israel might lead to war crimes prosecutions was a huge win for the anti-genocide movement.

Since the genocide began, our movement has constantly picketed, blocked and vandalised companies supplying the genocide jet. In the first week of December we disrupted 3 different F35 suppliers in the Newcastle area alone.

At the same time as our Newcastle actions unfolded, David Shoebridge was grilling Defence officials in Senate Estimates about who signed what and when, and Peter Cronau was reporting on Lockheed Martin’s delivery of Australian genocide jet components from Newcastle to Israel.

Lockheed is worried. The men who sign the defence export permits are even more worried.

WHAT IF WE WERE ABLE TO STOP THE SUPPLY OF AUSTRALIAN PARTS TO F35 GENOCIDE JETS?

The F35 genocide jet is a very inefficient machine, needing 5 hours of ‘sustainment’ for every hour of operation. The genocide jet has been a major contributor to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, and now Lebanon, so the need for spare parts is still constant.

The F35 weapons transfers from Newcastle to Israel STILL NEED AN EXPORT PERMIT signed by Australian Defence Department officials and approved by Defence Minister Richard Marles for these stored parts.

This is where we think we can make impact.

What if Defence Department officials were publicly named and called upon to refuse to facilitate transport of genocide jet components? What if those Defence officials and Ministers Marles, Wong (Foreign Affairs) and Conroy (Defence Industries) decided that the personal risk of facing a war crimes tribunal in the future outweighed the obligation to serve Lockheed Martin?

COLLABORATIVE PEOPLE-POWERED ACTION

Using the tools we wield the best ¬— community-based direct action and participatory resistance ¬— we propose to work in concert with key politicians, journalists and human rights organisations to problematise the supply of components to Lockheed’s genocide jets. We aim to create a crisis for Defence officials and staff, such that they are no longer willing to sign off on F35 exports, by raising the real possibility their names will end up on war crimes prosecutors’ lips in The Hague.

January 30, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized