Andrew Feinstein & Jeff Halper webinar, Israeli elections

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This 2^nd webinar will further explore ways of breaking through barriers & establishing new strategies to bypass Israel’s omnipotence, strengthening a political programme towards decolonisation, creating space for informal communication & interaction across the divide via education, economic levers including the tech industry, the international civic society including progressive younger Jews worldwide - and the common language of and passion for sport, broadening discussion to include South Africans along with Palestinians and Israelis.

In his brilliantly comprehensive book Shadow world: inside the Global Arms Trade on the mendacious privatisation of the war industry, he reveals the illicit bribes, money laundering and widescale corruption behind international weaponry deals and revolving door relationships within the US military/industrial complex. Manufacturing and trading weapons, he argues, are closely tied into the machinations of governments, militaries, intelligence agencies and crucially to political parties.

This book inspired the riveting documentary Shadow World , available on YouTube.

Andrew is the founding director of Shadow World Investigations, formerly Corruption Watch.

Jeff Halper's book, 'War Against the People', gives a disturbing insight into the new ways world powers such as the US, Israel, Britain and China forge war today. It is a subliminal war of surveillance and whitewashed terror, conducted through new, high-tech military apparatuses, designed and first used in Israel against the Palestinian population. Including nano-technology, hidden camera systems, information databases on civilian activity, automated targeting systems and unmanned drones, it is used to control the very people the nation's leaders profess to serve.

Jeff reveals that this practice is much more insidious than was previously thought. As Western governments claw back individual liberties, War Against the People is a reminder that fundamental human rights are being compromised for vast sections of the world, and that this is a subject that should concern everyone.

In fact, the outcome of the elections was a natural consequence of the Zionist enterprise - indeed, the very culmination to which Israelis have aspired since 1948 (and well before). From its very beginning some 130 years ago, Zionism has been up-front over its intent to Judaize Palestine. To displace the indigenous population and replace it with Jews. To turn an Arab country into a Jewish one. To transform Palestine into Israel.

Casting Zionism as a settler colonial enterprise is not merely an academic exercise; it EXPLAINS the necessary and ongoing violence of conquest, displacement, land grabbing and ultimate repression, if not elimination, of another people whose very presence poses a challenge to exclusivist Jewish national claims to Palestine. Ben Gvir, odious as he may be, is simply the true face of Zionism that has been well hidden behind the suited and “moderate” politicians: Gans, whose election video a couple years ago featured him boasting of having killed 4000 “terrorists” in Gaza; Kohavi, the IDF Chief of Staff who just launched a billion dollar plan to boost the “lethality” of the IDF; Bennett, whose government oversaw an unprecedented peak of house demolitions; Labor and Meretz, the (Zionist) “Left” parties that never mention the occupation; and of course Netanyahu and all the others Read the full report here October Demolition and Displacement Report Photo: OCHA OPT: Demolition of a residential home, Deir Samit, 6 October 2022 Of the 44 demolished structures, 16 were inhabited by families. Ten homes were demolished while they were being constructed for habitation. The other demolitions included water cisterns, a livelihood structure, eleven agricultural structures, two animal-related structures and more * See the map showing the location of the demolitions in October here . * Read stories about the demolitions as they happen that are reported on our Facebook page . Learn about the people behind the statistics.

Abanese’s position is very much in line with what ICAHD has been calling for and spelled out in Jeff Halper’s book “Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine”. (Photo credit: UN OHCHR).

Watch Francesca Abanese addressing the General Assembly here

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