When the Danish government announced a weapons purchase order from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems worth over €200 million in January 2023, it marked a high point in Danish-Israeli relations. Now brand new revelations lay bare just how close Denmark is to the Israeli military complex.

Elbit is a central part of that complex. The company produces 85 percent of the drones used for lethal drone strikes in Gaza, which killed over 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children, in 2014 alone. It is also a central provider of monitoring and surveillance technology used for Israel’s apartheid wall, its system of checkpoints, and the settlements beyond it.

In 2015, socialists from the Red-Green Alliance forced the government to reveal that it was collaborating militarily with the Israel’s armed forces by hosting twenty soldiers in the an-Naqab desert testing Elbit’s artillery equipment. Since then, critical voices have pushed back against plans to strike a deal with Elbit. Most vocal was the socialist Red-Green Alliance, followed by the Social Liberals and the Socialist People’s Party, which refused to support purchasing weapons from companies violating international law and refused to purchase Israeli weapons, respectively.