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Combating a Virus: Militarism and Securitization Under Covid-19
On June 10th 2020 Who Profits held an online conversation with Dr. Nisha Kapoor, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Warwick University and Who Profits’ Research Coordinator Riya al-Sanah on securitization and surveillance under COVID-19 in occupied Palestine, India and beyond.
Occupation is an Underlying Condition
Who Profits was joined by Dr. Rafeef Ziadah, a Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at SOAS, University of London, and Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University, Palestine, for a conversation on the political economy of COVID-19 in occupied Palestine.
In the Pipeline
This update examines the construction of a bypass water pipeline on the lands of the Palestinian village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.
العمالة الفلسطينيّة في ظل كورونا
تكشف السياسات الاسرائيلية تجاه العمال الفلسطينيين في ظل فيروس الكورونا الطريقة التي تتقاطع بها مباني السيطرة والخنق الاقتصادي القائمة، وذلك لضمان الارباح على حساب الشعب المُستعمَر. لقد تأثر العمال الفلسطينيون في سوق العمل الاسرائيلية بشكل خاص في ضل ازمة فيروس الكورونا، كونهم ضروريون لاستمرارية قطاع البناء الاسرائيلي ويعتمدون على هذاه الوظائف رغم ظروف العمل الاستغلالية والاجور المتدنية
Exploited and Essential
Israeli policies vis-à-vis Palestinian labour in the context of the Covid-19 crisis expose how pre-existing structures of population control and economic strangulation interlock to secure profits for the occupying power at the expense of an occupied population. At once essential to the profits of the Israeli construction sector and dependent on the low-paying, exploitative jobs it provides, Palestinian workers in the Israeli economy have been uniquely impacted by the Covid-19 crisis.
For Medicinal Purposes
Israel’s highly militarized response to the coronavirus crisis exposes the deep military bias that underpins its economy and political regime. A series of recent collaborations between Israel's military and medical sectors, facilitated by the military's research directorate, offers military corporations a way to benefit from the crisis and diversify their product offering.
NSO Group: Technologies of Control
The Israeli militarized hi-tech sector has become a dominant player in the global market of cyber technologies, many that are used for surveillance and population control. This has also laid the ground for surveillance tech firms to capitalize on Covid-19 health crisis. This company feature sheds light on the activities of the private Israeli cyber company NSO Group, and its record in human rights violations as well as its new coronavirus data analytics system.
UN Releases List of Companies Involved in the Israeli Occupation
The UN list of 112 companies involved in the Israeli occupation is an important step toward corporate accountability. However, its narrow focus and restrictive temporal frame leave out hundreds of complicit corporations and wider structures of dispossession.