To Guillaume Faury, CEO Airbus
Toulouse, June 12, 2025,
Subject: Airbus must act to stop the genocide in Gaza
Mr. Faury,
You are surely aware that a tragedy, one too often witnessed by humanity, is unfolding before our eyes in Palestine: a genocide.
The Israeli government is relentlessly attacking an entire population by methodically bombing the Gaza Strip, a territory of approximately 365 km2. More than 54,000 civilians—children, women, and men—have perished, and over 125,000 have been wounded. Nearly all hospitals are destroyed, as are homes and vital infrastructure.
For many months, the Israeli government has prohibited the entry of all humanitarian aid, threatening hundreds of thousands of civilians, including one million children, with famine and epidemics. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinians die daily under the yoke of settlers and the army. There is also an intensification of colonization with the creation of new settlements and the expulsion of inhabitants. No one can remain indifferent to these crimes against humanity, recognized by international law and the UN.
Through media and political hype, the Israeli government and its allies attempt to make people believe that the conflict in Palestine began on October 7, 2023. They downplay the situation and seek by all means to silence all opposition in Israel and internationally. The CGT condemns the atrocious massacres of October 7, also a crime against humanity, and demands the release of all hostages.
To claim that the conflict and the hell experienced by Palestinians only began on October 7 is a lie and an act of complicity. It was in 1948 that everything began for Palestinians driven from their land. An apartheid and colonization regime was gradually put in place, and an open-air prison was created in the Gaza Strip.
Following the example of French and Italian dockworkers who blocked the shipment of arms to Israel, Airbus employees do not want to be complicit. Demonstrations, strikes, and boycotts are means of expressing real emancipatory opposition. Everyone, at their own level, can mobilize to push governments to act for definitive peace between peoples and for the recognition of the State of Palestine, in accordance with the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, as is the case for 147 countries worldwide, including Spain, Sweden, and Ireland.
It is also up to economic powers to act by exerting pressure and immediately halting all commercial exchanges with Israel.
This is what the CGT of the Airbus Group asks you to do immediately and publicly. This will send a strong message and, without a doubt, create a chain reaction.
This was possible as early as March 28, 2022, against the Russian government following the invasion of Ukraine. The sale of aircraft to Russia, as well as essential components for their maintenance, was prohibited. The Airbus Group appears to have complied with this European directive.
The same must be done against the Israeli government. We will not list here all the partnerships and contracts Airbus has with Israel. We know that the Airbus Group collaborates with IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries) to supply Heron drones to Frontex (responsible for another human tragedy in the Mediterranean). Airbus also equips A330 MRTT and A400M aircraft with Israeli equipment from Elbit Systems (an Israeli arms company).
The economic interests of a company, in this case, those of Airbus with Israel, must always yield to the benefit of Humanity.
As President of the French Aerospace Industries Association (GIFAS), you have the responsibility and the means to act beyond Airbus.
At the time of the opening of the Paris Air Show, where numerous arms contracts involving states and industrialists are discussed, the CGT asks you to use your influence and position to boycott Israeli companies.
Mr. Faury, in the name of Humanity, act!
The CGT Coordination of the Airbus Group