#SMASHTHEMATCH WEEK 11

🚨📲 SMASH THE MATCH WEEK 11📲🚨

[INSTRUCTIONS ON SLIDES 4-6!]

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stm-prodrone-acompany-drop-the-aichi-israel-matching-program

(NEW e-mail template! ∆)

With over 2,355 e-mails sent and hundreds of comments posted on Aichi-related pages, the recent disruption and takeover of the Aichi Triennale, & the RESIGNATION of the corporate liaison connected to the Aichi-Israel Matching Program from the Triennale Committee, the SMASHTHEMATCH campaign just keeps going!!

In our 11th week of action, we are coordinating with the #GROUNDF35 actions around the world, and hope to highlight the chilling truth that the international community still hasn’t fully appreciated: AICHI PREFECTURE IS ONE OF 3 PLACES IN THE WORLD where these ‘genocide jets’ are completed, USING TECHNOLOGY FROM ELBIT SYSTEMS (amongst others)! Aichi is a KEY link in the genocidal supply chain, and our comrades in Japan need your help in exposing & breaking it!

Along with Governor Omura, we have added the new Aichi-Israel match recipients Acompany & Prodrone (yes, that is their name!) to the list of e-mail targets, as well as the Obayashi Corporation, the main sponsor of the Aichi Triennale, which is complicit in both the occupation of Okinawa through its construction of the Henoko base, AND a BDS violator for employing Innoviz laser technology in doing so from the Zionist Entity!

So we ask our global community to COMMENT on the target page (@ aichi_now_en ), SEND MORE E-MAILS this week (even if you did it before!), and CALL THE PHONE NUMBERS ON SLIDE 6–if you use Wireless calling, you won’t get any data charges! Send us your call videos if you are able!

DO NOT think your comments, emails, and phone calls are meaningless. We consistently hear back from our comrades in Japan that it 1) boosts local organisers’ confidence, 2) creates a headache and pressure on Aichi officials who care a lot about their int’l ‘image’, and 3) creates the ‘chatter’ that gets reporters and human rights orgs interested in the deep-investigative work we need to PROVE the despicable genocidal links in the global supply chain locally in Aichi.

Slide 1: CANCEL the Aichi-Israel Matching Program!

Weekly Phone & Inbox Blockade

SMASHTHEMATCH!

A smart phone which has two notifications. The first reads: 愛知はジェノサイドへの加担をやめろ！The second: Abdal al-Latif Salah (Palestine flag emoji) “Always remember dear: ceremonial politesse with the occupier did not achieve our liberation. Resistance did.”

Slide 2: WHAT IS IT?

Since 2022, the Aichi Prefectural Government in Japan has partnered with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) & Startup Nation Central (SNC) to promote collaborations between ‘Israeli’ startups and companies in Aichi.

Despite 22+ months of non-stop genocidal war crimes and calls by the local community to cancel this program, this collaboration is belligerently pushing forward to “integrate Israeli cutting-edge technology” into Japan’s manufacturing region.

Claiming to promote “Climate, Agri-Food, and Health Tech”, in reality, this “innovation” alliance is in lock-step with Japan’s rapid re-militarization. This program is a deadly fusion of Israel’s immoral, genocidal tech industry with some of the most advanced manufacturers in the world, many of which have barely washed their hands of the bloody profits of Japan’s own imperialist wars.

Slide 3: F-35S MADE IN AICHI!

In addition to the Matching Program, Aichi is entangled w/ Isrli military industrial complex through the manufacture of F-35 war planes.

Aichi is 1 of only 3 sites worldwide where F-35s for the “Japan Self Defense Forces” are manufactured at the Komaki South Final Assembly & Check Out (FACO) facility! This site is also maintains and repairs F-35s. YABAI!

[Image on left of a poster, which says AICHI in red on a white background, with a black silhouette map of Japan beneath, and a heart which ends in a point on the Aichi region. Underneath, it says “Heart” of Japan ~ Technology & Tradition]

[To its right, A large white silhouette of Japan with the regions of Osaka & Tokyo highlighted in blue and labelled, and the region of Aichi highlighted in red and labelled]

[On the right, the Elbit Sysems logo]

F-35 pilots use Helmet Mounted Display System developed by Elbit Systems/Collins Aerospace! YABAI!

[An image of an F35 bursting out of the frame at the bottom]

Slide 4: WHAT’S NEXT?

This week we call on ALL #SMASHTHEMATCH supporters to take three distinct actions!

[E-mail emojis] EMAIL Aichi-based companies PRODRONE & ACOMPANY to demand they withdraw from the Aichi-Isrl Matching Program!
(QR Code on next slide!)

[Speech bubble emoji] COMMENT SLAM on @aichi_now_en Insta account – leave a comment demanding an END to Aichi’s complicity with genocidal Isrl & #smashthematch! Screenshot & send us your comment before they delete it!
(See target next slide!)

[Orange cell phone clip art] CALL BLAST to Aichi govt and JP companies Mitsubishi Electric & FANUC that participate in the F-35 Global Supply Chain!
(Phone numbers on slide 6!)

Slide 5: TARGETS

[Screenshot of the @aichi_now_en Instagram account, with the top pinned post circled in red, and another screenshot of that pinned post zoomed in with more red circles to make clear where to post]

Please go to this account and comment on this post CONDEMNING the Aichi government!

Next, follow this QR code to send direct e-mails to TWO of the Aichi-Israel Matching Companies! These are new targets! Please log out & back in if necessary!

Don’t worry, it’s really easy to do & all privacy settings are on, so they will only see your name!

[Red arrow pointing to a QR code & URL: actionnetwork.org/letters/stm-prodrone-acompany-drop-the-aichi-israel-matching-program]

Slide 6: PHONE #S

[Mitsubishi Electric logo]

US: +1 866-547-1270

UK: +44 1285 655777

Japan: +81 3 3218 2111

[FANUC Robotics logo]

US: +1 888-FANUC-US

UK: +44 24 7605 3000

Japan: +81 555 84 5555

[Aichi Prefecture flag]

Japan: +81 52 961 2111

[IHI logo]

Japan: +81 3 6204 7800

Points to cover:

  • Mitsubishi: STOP selling weapons parts for F-35! Stop making F-35s in Aichi that contain Isrli-made Elbit helmet-mounted display systems!
  • FANUC: stop robots from manufacturing F-35s!
  • Aichi Govt: CANCEL the Aichi-Israel Matching Program! No sports-, art-, or eco-washing genocide, Okinawa militarization! Ground the F-35!
  • Stop violating human rights & international law
  • Demand transparency around collaboration w/Isrl

Slide 7: For more information about ‘Cancel Aichi-Israel Matching Program’, see the link in our bio or visit

  • tinyurl.com/CancelAichiMatching
  • @think4olive
  • @bdsjapanbulletin
  • @takeshi_evolstak

We won’t stop until our four key demands are met:

  • A full report on historical details of the Matching Program
  • The IMMEDIATE end of the Matching Program + written confirmation
  • A written commitment to NEVER engage in any future partnerships with ‘Israeli’ companies
  • An apology to the community

FREE PALESTINE/パレスチナ解放!!!