The ‘Moog 4’ anti-genocide activists who were put on trial for direct action against an arms firm supplying Israel have walked free from Birmingham Crown Court today. The jury in the trial was split and refused to convict the activists despite the prosecution claiming the decision to convict would be “simple”. The activists were charged with breaking into the Wolverhampton factory of Moog Aircraft Group, which supplies parts to Israel for the colony’s F-35 strike aircraft used to slaughter Palestinian civilians. They were accused of damaging weapons components and occupying the factory’s roof. They told the jury that: We believed the…