For almost two years, activists across Canada have been demanding that Scotiabank divest from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Despite an ‘incremental divestment’, the bank has slowly been reinvesting in Elbit.

Canada’s parliament voted to stop future arms sales to Israel. “This appears too good to be true,” CJPME Vice President told Mondoweiss. “We need to make sure that Canada stops the transfer of all military exports, period, without any loopholes.”

Mondoweiss U.S. correspondent Michael Arria speaks to Antony Lowenstein about his new book “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World”.

This year’s Israeli arms exhibition, ISDEF2022, hosted, once again, delegations from various countries that are infamous for their severe human rights violation record. They came to examine a wide range of weaponry and technologies, some used on the Palestinian population. As long as Israel’s economic base is its military and security industry, continuing the occupation in Palestine, as well as arming conflicts, borders, and oppressive regimes, will remain in Israel’s interest.

Three weeks after Israel’s latest assault on the Gaza Strip concluded, Israeli military and political leaders attended a conference next to Ben Gurion Airport to sell the successes of what Israel dubbed Operation Protective Edge, which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians including 521 children.