South Sudan

A South Sudanese refugee child looks out from a bus in Tel Aviv that will take him to Ben Gurion Airport where they will be deported to South Sudan with 150 people on a flight leaving that night, Israel, July 11, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

These Sudanese were deported by Israel. Now they’re saving others from war

Israel carries heavy responsibility for denying asylum to Sudanese who are being forced to flee their homes yet again. Initiatives like ours can help them.

By Rami Gudovitch May 31, 2023

Protesters on a train coming from Atbra city about 300 km from Khartoum, during the Sudanese revolution, 17 August 2019. (Osama Elfaki/Wikimedia)

What is behind Israel’s warming ties to Sudan?

Israeli-Sudanese relations have been fraught with public tensions and secret collaborations — with the fate of refugees in Israel hanging in the balance.

By Inbal Ben Yehuda March 1, 2020

The Philippine Coast Guard presenting a shipment of 70 Israeli-made machine guns at the PCG National Headquarters Port Area on May 7, 2018. (Courtesy of Philippines Coast Guard)

The fight to expose Israel’s arms sales to the world’s most repressive regimes

In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.

By Sahar Vardi December 25, 2019

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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

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

Despite int’l sanctions, Myanmar officials attend Tel Aviv weapons expo

Israel continues to supply arms and training to the regime in Myanmar, despite its genocide against the Rohingya people. Representatives of Myanmar’s military attended Israel’s largest, government-supported security and weapons conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. The officials arrived at the Tel Aviv Expo Center for the International Defense, HLS & Cyber Expo, known as ISDEF,…

By Oren Ziv June 4, 2019

Israeli businessman and former IDF major general Israel Ziv. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

U.S. puts sanctions on Israeli ex-general over South Sudan arms sales

Israel Ziv, a former head of operations for the Israeli army, is accused by the Treasury Department of selling weapons to both sides of the civil war in South Sudan, on which there is an arms embargo. By +972 Magazine Staff The U.S. Treasury Department placed sanctions last week on Israeli businessman and retired IDF…

By +972 Magazine December 18, 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspects an honor guard in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 5, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO).

U.S. Embassy celebrations: A who’s who of the Israeli arms trade

Only around 30 countries took part in the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s gala celebrating the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem last week. Not coincidentally, Israel’s ties with most of them are based on arms sales used to carry out gross human rights violations. By Eitay Mack [Correction added below.] Immediately following the end of the 1967 War, the State of…

By +972 Magazine May 22, 2018

Hassan Rahima, a refugee from the Nubian mountains, is waiting for Israel to respond to his asylum request. (Michael Toipol)

Israel’s invisible refugee community

Estimates show that hundreds of refugees from the Nuba Mountains, who fled the fighting in Sudan, currently live in Israel. Despite the danger they face in their home country, both Israel and the international community ignore their plight. By Dror Sadot Over the years, tens of thousands of African refugees have entered Israel. By using the…

By +972 Magazine November 2, 2017

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

Relatives of Palestinian baby Ali Saad Dawabsha grieve after he was murdered in an arson attack on a Palestinian house, Duma, West Bank, July 31. 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2015

You, our readers, voted with your clicks. The following is a list of the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 25. Photo exhibit challenges Zionism’s most popular myth Using haunting aerial photographs of the Negev Desert, American artist Fazal Sheikh challenges the notion that the desert was an unpopulated,…

By +972 Magazine December 16, 2015

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

The story behind Israel’s shady military exports

Why doesn’t the Foreign Ministry care whether Israeli weapons end up in the hands of serial human rights violators such as South Sudan? Israel’s greatest champions pride themselves on supporting a flourishing country based on start-up ingenuity that respects democracy and human rights. But do those who call Israel the “start-up nation” and the “only…

By Edo Konrad November 22, 2015

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

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

The untold story of Israeli military exports to South Sudan

Since South Sudan’s independence, Israel has continuously sold it weapons, military training, homeland security and surveillance technology. The only problem? They are being used to commit war crimes and potential crimes against humanity By: Adv. Itai Mack and Idan Landau (translation: Einat Adar) We now know that Israel sold weapons to Rwanda in the 1990s as genocide was…

By +972 Magazine May 28, 2015