Arms trade with Israel
Arms trade with Israel
Keynote with Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Feinstein is a South African former politician, activist, filmmaker, campaigner and author, now based in London. He is Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations, an organisation investigating the arms trade and the corruption that accompanies it and serves on the board of Declassified UK. The son of a Holocaust survivor, Feinstein was the first MP to introduce a motion on the Holocaust in the South African parliament. He is author of the book ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade’ (2011), that was made into a feature documentary, Shadow World by the Belgian film maker Johan Grimonprez. Feinstein co-wrote the film and features in it. He is co-editor of the book ‘Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Arms Trade Is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It’.
In this keynote, Andrew Feinstein will take a look at the Israeli arms industry. Israel is among the world’s top 10 arms exporters. Its weapons are marketed as battlefield tested. Israel also remains a major importer of arms even though it has been committing widespread violations of international (humanitarian) law for years, using the weapons in its colonial war against the Palestinians. He will explain what can or should be done, discuss the need for a military embargo and how actions for Palestine are part of a wider intersectional struggle against the global national security elite.
This keynote is organised in collaboration with EYE ON PALESTINE and MENARG.
Disrupting the Fossil Order: Palestine, Imperialism, and Solidarity Today
OPENING LECTURE & PANEL DISCUSSION
With Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, and a Research Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI). As a leading scholar of Middle East political economy, Hanieh’s research has particularly focused on the dynamics of class and state formation in the six oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies, and the profound impact that Gulf capitalism has had on socio-economic and political developments in the wider Middle East. In addition to his work on the Gulf, Hanieh has written extensively on Palestine, and was a founding member of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, University of London. His most recent book is Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books, 2024).
Adam Hanieh will be in conversation with Amina Adebisi Odofin, Joseph Daher and Omar Jabary Salamanca (tbc)
This keynote is organised in collaboration with EYE ON PALESTINE and MENARG.