Right, so Israeli arms firms have turned up in France to flog their genocidal wares and had a bit of a rude shock when they got there. The supposedly respectable end of their warmongering hit one of those arms’ fair events, Eurosatory 2026 as is the case here, what they bring to present as defence solutions of course being the very same things they’ve been using to vaporise neighbourhoods from Gaza to Southern Lebanon.

But when they got to this latest arms bazaar catwalk, they didn’t exactly get the Victoria’s Secret treatment. Where they expected the usual routine of stands, buyers, handshakes and brochures amidst all of the military hardware parked under the exhibition lights, they found instead, walls, partitions and curtains cordoning all of their displays off. It was like somebody had shoved Israel’s arms industry into the naughty corn ...