Israel's arms deals

People examine arms at ISDEF 2022, Tel Aviv, March 21, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel masked its arms deals to repressive regimes for decades. Here’s how

For most of its existence, the state has continued selling weapons and other military wares to rogue governments, even after claiming to have stopped.

By Eitay Mack June 15, 2023

An Israeli soldier learns how to operate the Skylark drone in the Negev desert, January 21, 2013. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

This database is exposing decades of Israel’s shady arms deals

Israel has been exporting arms to the world’s most repressive governments. A new project aims to hold it accountable by tracking these confidential sales.

By Sahar Vardi February 10, 2021

Hundreds of American Jews protest against ICE raids at an Amazon store in New York City, August 11, 2019. (Gili Getz)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2019

From climate catastrophe in Israel-Palestine to the crackdown in Kashmir to the dark past and present of Israeli arms exports — here are our most popular articles from the last year.

By +972 Magazine December 24, 2019

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Some 200 Israelis march from the Turkish embassy to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, on October 15, 2019, in support of the Kurdish militants and against Turkey's incursion into Syria. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The hypocrisy of Israel’s alliance with the Kurds

Israel’s solidarity with the Kurds is duplicitous, not only because it also arms one of the Kurdish people’s biggest oppressors, but also because it supports their independence while denying millions of Palestinians that same right.

By Sahar Vardi October 18, 2019

Myanmar military representatives at the ISDEF 2019 expo in Tel Aviv on June 4, 2019. (Oren Ziv)

PODCAST: Exposing Israel’s arms sales to oppressive regimes

Attorney Eitay Mack is one of the only people in Israel challenging the secrecy of Israel’s military exports to despotic regimes around the world. Listen here: iTunes/Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify Israeli human rights lawyer Eitay Mack is working to uncover both Israel’s historic ties to brutal military regimes, such as Pinochet’s Chile, as well as its current…

By +972 Magazine July 12, 2019

President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem during Duterte's official visit to Israel, on September 3, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Why are no Israeli officials refusing to meet with Duterte?

Israel has reached a moral low point as it hosts the Philippines’ mass-murdering president and sells arms to his genocidal regime. By Eitay Mack Months after Israel marked 70 years since its founding, the country is staging one of its lowest points yet. Israel is holding its citizens and institutions in contempt this week, by…

By +972 Magazine September 4, 2018