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.
ACFM Trip 36: Festivals
Novara FM: Will We Still Be Mad After Capitalism? w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll
Novara FM: The Art of the Psyop w/ Trevor Paglen
Novara FM: The Oxygen of Democracy w/ Amy Goodman
Downstream: A History of Sex Scandals w/ Steven Methven
ACFM Trip 35: The Internet
ACFM Microdose: Californian Capitalism w/ Malcolm Harris
Downstream: Social Mobility Is A Lie w/ Dan Evans
Novara FM: The Empty Promise of Ethical Meat w/ Amber Husain
Downstream: Going Undercover With Extremists w/ Julia Ebner
Novara FM: We Were Promised Robot Butlers w/ Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek
Downstream: What Have We Got Wrong About Antiracism? w/ Arun Kundnani
Novara FM: Revenge of the Commoners w/ Jon Moses
Downstream: Is It Time for a Universal Basic Income? w/ Will Stronge
Downstream: Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community w/ Izzy Posen
Downstream: Can The Green Party Transform British Politics? w/ Zack Polanski
ACFM Trip 34: The Outdoors
Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin
Novara FM: Let’s Go Outside
Downstream: The British Media Is Broken w/ Moya Lothian-McLean & Michael Walker
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