My family were forced to flee their home in Palestine, migrated from Iraq, only to find ourselves living in a neighbouring British town to an Israeli weapons factory. Growing up in a northern town, I was oblivious to the extent of British complicity in Israel’s apartheid regime. Of course, as a British Arab, I was aware of the country’s devastating role in the imperialist invasion of Iraq, as well as their bias towards Israel, but my eyes were fully opened once I discovered that an Elbit arms manufacturer was operating just moments from where I lived. Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons ma…