Summary
Israel’s largest private military company, founded in 1967, presented in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as a beneficiary of the US–Israel arms and security relationship (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, line 609).
Details
- Chapter 2 records that in 2014 and 2017 Elbit Systems was awarded contracts by the US Department of Homeland Security to militarize the US–Mexico border (line 609).
- Chapter 4 treats the arms economy Elbit belongs to as the mechanism that now integrates the Israeli working class into the Zionist project, with Israel exporting as much as seven billion dollars of military technology annually (lines 984-996).
Where sources disagree
- Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights records Norway’s government pension fund selling its Elbit Systems shares in September 2009 and a Swedish fund and Danske Bank divesting from Elbit in 2010 as BDS victories; this book records Elbit’s later US border contracts without mentioning the divestments. The two accounts are of different periods and are kept on their own pages.
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, Watchdog state, Imperialism