On 13 January 2026, Al-Haq, Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP), NIDAL, Avocats pour la Justice au Proche-Orient (AJPO), Survie, Droits et Mouvements Sociaux (Rights and Social Movements) and Guerre à la Guerre (War on War), filed an appeal with the administrative judge at the French Administrative Court, Consei d’État for abuse of power against the decision of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron to permit an arms fair in Paris held in November 2025, featuring Israeli arms companies, Israeli delegations, and companies that supply arms to Israel.
Although Israel continues to destroy the Palestinian people though bombings, forced displacement, and the systematic destruction of their living conditions ––facts characterised as genocide,–– and while competent international bodies have recognised this characterisation and called for the cessation of arms transfers to Israel, the French government instead made a clear political choice to host the Milipol trade show, held near Paris in November 2025.
Despite our formal notice asking the French authorities to ban several companies, despite domestic and international law prohibiting the maintenance of genocide, the President of France instead publicly upheld the decision to maintain the presence of 30 Israeli arms companies, companies of other nationalities involved in supplying arms to Israel, and permitted the Israeli delegation to attend the Milipol trade fair. In response to this decision, our organisations have filed an appeal with the administrative judge for abuse of power.
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