arms exports

The ISDEF22 arms exhibition in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

The start-up spy state

Israel's surveillance sector is marketing its repressive technology as offering innovative solutions to global problems — a tactic on display at its latest expo.

By Sophia Goodfriend April 6, 2022

A soldier of the Azov Battalion mans a heavy machine gun on a patrol near Mariupol, Ukraine. (Carl Ridderstråle/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Is Israel trying to hide arms exports to neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine?

Human rights activists are hoping to use the courts to expose Israeli arms exports and security know-how to neo-Nazi militias fighting in Ukraine. By Shuki Taussig Is Israel knowingly selling weapons to neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine? A group of Israeli human rights activists filed a petition to the Tel Aviv District Court last June to demand the government…

By The Seventh Eye June 19, 2019

Commander in Chief of the Myanmar military, Min Aung Hlaing, meets with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot during a trip to Israel, September 9, 2015. (SF Min Aung Hlaing’s Facebook)

Why do the U.S. and EU still let Israel sell arms to Burma?

Economic sanctions were lifted but an arms embargo remains. What good is an arms embargo if Washington and Brussels allow their ally Israel, along with world powers like China, to keep selling arms to Burma? By Eitay Mack In light of the atrocities being perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma, many in the…

By +972 Magazine October 19, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Hyper-nationalism and arms deals: A new chapter in Israel-India ties

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first official visit to Israel comes at a time of both rising economic cooperation growing nationalism in both countries. By Inbal Ben Yehuda Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived for a three-day visit in Israel on Tuesday. Alongside meetings with government officials, Modi will travel across the country and will…

By +972 Magazine July 4, 2017

Women from the Association of the Families of the Disappeared demonstrate in front of the palace of the government during the military rule of Pinochet. By Museum of Memory and Human Rights. CC BY-SA 3.0.

‘Investigate Israeli complicity with Pinochet’s crimes’

Family members of a Chilean man disappeared and murdered by the Latin American dictator want Israel to open a criminal investigation into officials who cooperated with the murderous regime. By John Brown* (translated by Tal Haran) Two Israeli women who immigrated from Chile are taking Israel’s attorney general to court, demanding that he open a…

By +972 Magazine March 2, 2017

A mass grave in Bosnia. (ICTY)

Supreme Court rules against exposing Israel’s role in Bosnian genocide

Citing potential damage to Israel’s foreign relations, the Supreme Court rejects a petition calling to reveal details of the government’s arms exports to the Serbian army during the Bosnian genocide. By John Brown* (Translated by Tal Haran) Israel’s Supreme Court last month rejected a petition to reveal details of Israeli defense exports to the former…

By +972 Magazine December 5, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mrs Sara Netanyahu depart for Uganda from Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport, July 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu’s Africa tour: A spit in the face of those Israel helps oppress

The Israeli public and its government need to internalize that ‘Israel’s pride,’ its wildly successful military export industry, has been an unending nightmare for the people of Africa. How can Netanyahu look the Rwandan and Ugandan people in the eyes? By Itay Mack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently on a tour of African states…

By +972 Magazine July 6, 2016

South Sudanese Soldiers. (Steve Evans/CC BY-SA 2.0)

WATCH: Left, Right come together against arms exports to S. Sudan

As recently reported in +972 Magazine, Israel is exporting arms to South Sudan, despite an EU embargo and a decision in Washington to halt military aid. In Israel, activists from both sides of the political map are coming together to say ‘enough is enough.’

By Social TV July 25, 2015