A brief history of Israel's support for apartheid, atrocities, war crimes & genocide around the world. A 🧵
In the 1970s & 80s, Israel was one of the main arms suppliers 972mag.com/investigate-is…) to Chile's military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Israel trained (haaretz.com/israel-news/20…) the country's security forces, who abducted & murdered 3,000 persons & tortured 35,000.
In the early 1980s, Israel helped Guatemala's Efraín Ríos Montt carry out a coup. Israel supplied the country w/ weapons (nacla.org/news/2013/4/23…) to slaughter 45K-60K Mayans in Guatemala & destroy 440 Mayan villages b/w 1981-1983. Many call it genocide. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…)
During the 1970s & 80s, Israel became apartheid South Africa's most important arms supplier, all the while South Africa saved Israel's cash-starved defense industry after the apartheid state spent an unprecedented $1.7 billion on Israeli weapons. haaretz.com/2013-12-10/ty-…
In 1994, Israel supplied weapons to Rwanda while it carried out a genocide. This is how Yair Auron, an Israeli historian, described it: “To send arms to a country where genocide is taking place is like sending arms to Nazi Germany during World War II." middleeasteye.net/news/did-israe…
Israel sold weapons to Myanmar throughout its 2016-17 genocide of the Rohingya in which military, police & local militias killed at least 6,700 Rohingya during the first month of attacks alone (msf.org/myanmarbanglad…), ethnically cleansing >1 million haaretz.com/israel-news/se…
We haven't even mentioned Israeli spyware, which has been sold to the most repressive countries in the world to imprison, torture & kill activists fighting for social justice in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kashmir & dozens of other countries. amazon.com/Palestine-Labo…
Apartheid, atrocities & genocide are very on brand for Israel, tragically so. I write about this stuff in my newsletter:
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