Israel needs friends. And one of the main tools it has used to get them is its arms industry. The 10th biggest in the world, it increasingly specialises in the kind of digital surveillance technology European governments love to pretend they never use.
Such powerful technology has not only forced many of its former adversaries to the table but, paradoxically, has increased the mistrust between itself and its closest allies: the powerful Five Eyes group of anglophone intelligence agencies.
In The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Antony Loewenstein reveals how this industry has made itself indispensable to the Israeli state.
He joins Rivkah Brown to talk about how Israel’s often spectacular occupation of the Palestinian territories has allowed it to export not just its sophisticated weaponry but also the very idea of ethnonationalism around the world.
Downstream: The History of Israel’s War on Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi
Novara FM: New Cities, Old Scams w/ Quinn Slobodian
Downstream: Does the Labour Party Care About Palestine? w/ Zarah Sultana
Novara FM: Why Posh People Have Bad Taste w/ Nathalie Olah
Downstream: The Future of Money w/ Brett Scott
Novara FM: Engine of Immortality w/ Jeff Jarvis
Downstream: We Must Get Ready For An Emergency w/ Slavoj Žižek
ACFM Trip 38: Movement and Stillness
Novara FM: In Search of Red Africa w/ Kevin Okoth
Downstream: How Protest Movements Fall Apart w/ Vincent Bevins
Novara FM: Emergency Brake! On The Road With Just Stop Oil
Downstream: Philosophy’s Biggest Pessimist w/ John Gray
Novara FM: Truth That Only Fiction Reveals w/ Pankaj Mishra
Downstream: The Left Is Traumatised w/ Gary Younge
Novara FM: Crossing the Class Divide w/ Lynsey Hanley
Downstream: Europe Is Over w/ Yanis Varoufakis
ACFM Trip 37: Surrealism
Novara FM: Trillions of Tiny Flying Particles w/ Jay Owens
Downstream: Into The Mirror World w/ Naomi Klein
Novara FM: The Other Enlightenment w/ Kenan Malik
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