A French court has banned all Israeli arms companies, their affiliates and all Israeli delegations from participating in the #Eurosatory weapons trade show.
‘Killer robots’ from US Darley Defense, left, and Israel’s General Robotics, right, at the Eurosatory trade show in 2022 [Emmanuel Dunand/AFP]
A group of 30 organisations that successfully brought a case arguing Israeli companies should be banned from participating in the #Eurosatory weapons trade show said there remained a “high risk that the exhibition would contribute to international crimes, and violations of international humanitarian law”.
I'm in a bar, entirely uninterested in the sportsball on TV, until I find that one of the teams has just recently agreed a sponsorship deal with a weapons manufacturer, Rheinmetall. I'm suddenly enthusiastically supporting their opponents.
"The Biden administration plan for the “day after” in Gaza is rooted in American hubris and ignorance, and therefore doomed to failure."
"The United States has a long history of misunderstanding the Mideast, but this level of ignorance and willful blindness far surpass anything we’ve seen before."
"As conflation and confusion abound after 7 October, we need clear thinking about antisemitism"
by:
David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism,
Brendan McGeever, senior lecturer at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, who teaches at the University of #Haifa, #israelPalestine, explained the paradox: “One can detest Jews and love Israelis, because Israelis somehow are not Jews. Israelis are colonial fighters and settlers, just like Afrikaners. They are tough and resilient. They know how to dominate. Jews are different. They are, among other qualities, gentle, non-physical, often passive, intellectual. So one can go on disliking Jews while admiring the Israelis.”
"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".
“Israeli long-range missiles and exploding drones known as loitering munitions have made up for Azerbaijan’s small air force, even at times striking deep within #Armenia itself. Meanwhile, #Israel Barak-8 surface-to-air #missiles have protected #Azerbaijan’s airspace in shooting down missiles and #drones,” said Pieter Wezeman, senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks #arms sales.