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.